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Hisayoshi Nozaki

Hisayoshi Nozaki

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Biology and Biochemistry

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51
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17137
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1236

Overview

Hisayoshi Nozaki is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields including Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's main topics of study encompass Marine and coastal plant biology, Algal biology and biofuel production, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Diatoms and Algae Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, as well as Protist diversity and phylogeny.

Nozaki has several recent publications in peer-reviewed journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Three genomes in the algal genus Volvox reveal the fate of a haploid sex-determining region after a transition to homothallism," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genome sequencing of the multicellular alga Astrephomene provides insights into convergent evolution of germ-soma differentiation," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Reorganization of the ancestral sex-determining regions during the evolution of trioecy in Pleodorina starrii," 2023, Communications Biology
  • "Cryopreservation of vegetative cells and zygotes of the multicellular volvocine green alga Gonium pectorale," 2022, BMC Microbiology
  • "Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self-compatible mating system*," 2021, Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Masanobu Kawachi, Ryo Matsuzaki, Haruyo Yamaguchi, Kohei Takahashi, and Tetsuya Higashiyama.

Nozaki's work is often published in journals that include PLoS ONE, Phycological Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Microbiology, and Communications Biology.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the ultrasmall unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

    Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Tadasu Shin-I;Shinichiro Maruyama

  • Defensin-like polypeptide LUREs are pollen tube attractants secreted from synergid cells

    Satohiro Okuda;Hiroki Tsutsui;Keiko Shiina;Stefanie Sprunck

  • A 100%-complete sequence reveals unusually simple genomic features in the hot-spring red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Hiroyoshi Takano;Osami Misumi;Kimihiro Terasawa

  • Complete sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.

    Niji Ohta;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Osami Misumi;Shin-ya Miyagishima

  • Molecular systematics of Volvocales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on exhaustive 18S rRNA phylogenetic analyses

    Takashi Nakada;Kazuharu Misawa;Hisayoshi Nozaki

  • Horizontal Gene Transfer by the Parasitic Plant Striga hermonthica

    Satoko Yoshida;Shinichiro Maruyama;Hisayoshi Nozaki;Ken Shirasu

  • Origin and evolution of the colonial volvocales (Chlorophyceae) as inferred from multiple, chloroplast gene sequences.

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Kazuharu Misawa;Tadashi Kajita;Masahiro Kato

  • Evolution of an Expanded Sex-Determining Locus in Volvox

    Patrick Ferris;Bradley J. S. C. Olson;Peter L. De Hoff;Stephen Douglass

  • The Gonium pectorale genome demonstrates co-option of cell cycle regulation during the evolution of multicellularity

    Erik R. Hanschen;Tara N. Marriage;Patrick J. Ferris;Takashi Hamaji

  • PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE COLONIAL VOLVOCALES (CHLOROPHYTA) INFERRED FROM rbcL GENE SEQUENCE DATA

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Motomi Itoh;Ryosuke Sano;Hidenobu Uchida

  • The phylogenetic position of red algae revealed by multiple nuclear genes from mitochondria-containing eukaryotes and an alternative hypothesis on the origin of plastids

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Manabu Takahara;Osami Misumi

  • Characterization of MADS-box genes in charophycean green algae and its implication for the evolution of MADS-box genes

    Yoichi Tanabe;Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Hiroyuki Sekimoto;Tomoaki Nishiyama

  • Cyanidioschyzon merolae genome. A tool for facilitating comparable studies on organelle biogenesis in photosynthetic eukaryotes.

    Osami Misumi;Motomichi Matsuzaki;Hisayoshi Nozaki;Shin-ya Miyagishima

  • Species Preferentiality of the Pollen Tube Attractant Derived from the Synergid Cell of Torenia fournieri

    Tetsuya Higashiyama;Rie Inatsugi;Sachio Sakamoto;Narie Sasaki

  • Males evolved from the dominant isogametic mating type.

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Toshiyuki Mori;Osami Misumi;Sachihiro Matsunaga

  • Acidophilic green algal genome provides insights into adaptation to an acidic environment

    Shunsuke Hirooka;Yuu Hirose;Yu Kanesaki;Sumio Higuchi

  • Two Types of FtsZ Proteins in Mitochondria and Red-Lineage Chloroplasts: The Duplication of FtsZ Is Implicated in Endosymbiosis

    Shin-ya Miyagishima;Hisayoshi Nozaki;Keishin Nishida;Keiji Nishida

  • Distribution and phylogeny of the blue light receptors aureochromes in eukaryotes.

    Mié Ishikawa;Fumio Takahashi;Hisayoshi Nozaki;Chikako Nagasato

  • PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE COLONIAL VOLVOCALES (CHLOROPHYTA) INFERRED FROM CLADISTIC ANALYSIS BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL DATA

    Hisayoshi Nozaki;Motomi Itoh

  • Role of pyrenoids in the CO2-concentrating mechanism : comparative morphology, physiology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of closely related strains of Chlamydomonas and Chloromonas (volvocales)

    Eiko Morita;Toshihiko Abe;Mikio Tsuzuki;Shoko Fujiwara

Frequent Co-Authors

Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics
Richard E. Michod
Richard E. Michod University of Arizona
Kan Tanaka
Kan Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology
Haruko Kuroiwa
Haruko Kuroiwa Japan Women's University
Masaru Tomita
Masaru Tomita Keio University
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics
Naoki Sato
Naoki Sato University of Tokyo
Lothar Krienitz
Lothar Krienitz Leibniz Association

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