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2024

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Overview

Ikuo Hirono is affiliated with the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions also in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work is situated across several subfields including immunology, molecular biology, aquatic science, ecology, and insect science.

The main topics addressed in Hirono's research include aquaculture disease management and microbiota, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, aquaculture nutrition and growth, genomics and phylogenetic studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, animal virus infection studies, and vibrio bacteria research studies.

Frequent publication venues where Hirono has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Fish & Shellfish Immunology
  • Aquaculture
  • Journal of Fish Diseases
  • Fisheries Science
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements

Prominent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Hirono include:

  • Hidehiro Kondo
  • Keiichiro Koiwai
  • Reiko Nozaki
  • Satoshi Kawato
  • Sasimanas Unajak

Selected recent publications of Ikuo Hirono illustrate a focus on viral and bacterial disease control in aquatic organisms, probiotic effects, and genomic studies:

  • An oral delivery system for controlling white spot syndrome virus infection in shrimp using transgenic microalgae, 2020, Aquaculture
  • Novel Chimeric Multiepitope Vaccine for Streptococcosis Disease in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Linn.), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Analysis of microbiota in the stomach and midgut of two penaeid shrimps during probiotic feeding, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Genome and transcriptome assemblies of the kuruma shrimp, Marsupenaeus japonicus, 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Insight Into Whole Genome of Aeromonas veronii Isolated From Freshwater Fish by Resistome Analysis Reveal Extensively Antibiotic Resistant Traits, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Immune modulation and expression of cytokine genes in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss upon probiotic feeding

    A. Panigrahi;V. Kiron;S. Satoh;I. Hirono

  • Genome sequences of three koi herpesvirus isolates representing the expanding distribution of an emerging disease threatening koi and common carp worldwide

    Takashi Aoki;Ikuo Hirono;Ken Kurokawa;Hideo Fukuda

  • Cloning and expression analysis of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss tumour necrosis factor-alpha.

    Kerry J. Laing;Tiehui Wang;Jun Zou;Jason Holland

  • Molecular cloning, characterization, and expression of TNF cDNA and gene from Japanese flounder Paralychthys olivaceus.

    Ikuo Hirono;Bo-Hye Nam;Tomofumi Kurobe;Takashi Aoki

  • Characterization and function of kuruma shrimp lysozyme possessing lytic activity against Vibrio species.

    Sonomi Hikima;Jun ichi Hikima;Jiraporn Rojtinnakorn;Ikuo Hirono

  • Koi herpesvirus represents a third cyprinid herpesvirus (CyHV-3) in the family Herpesviridae

    Thomas B. Waltzek;Garry O. Kelley;David M. Stone;Keith Way

  • Gene expression in haemocytes of kuruma prawn, Penaeus japonicus, in response to infection with WSSV by EST approach.

    Jiraporn Rojtinnakorn;Ikuo Hirono;Toshiaki Itami;Yukinori Takahashi

  • Antimicrobial peptides discovered in the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon using the EST approach

    Premruethai Supungul;Sirawut Klinbunga;Rath Pichyangkura;Ikuo Hirono

  • Identification and analysis of an interleukin 8-like molecule in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

    Kerry J. Laing;Jun J. Zou;Tiehui Wang;Niels Bols

  • White Spot Syndrome Virus Induces Metabolic Changes Resembling the Warburg Effect in Shrimp Hemocytes in the Early Stage of Infection

    I-Tung Chen;Takashi Aoki;Yun-Tzu Huang;Ikuo Hirono

  • Draft Genome Sequence of Non-Vibrio parahaemolyticus Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease Strain KC13.17.5, Isolated from Diseased Shrimp in Vietnam.

    Hidehiro Kondo;Phan Thi Van;Lua T. Dang;Ikuo Hirono

  • Molecular cloning, genomic organization and recombinant expression of a crustin-like antimicrobial peptide from black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

    Piti Amparyup;Piti Amparyup;Hidehiro Kondo;Ikuo Hirono;Takashi Aoki

  • Differential expression of two tumor necrosis factor genes in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss

    J. Zou;T. Wang;I. Hirono;T. Aoki

  • Identification of immune-related genes in hemocytes of black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon).

    Premruethai Supungul;Sirawut Klinbunga;Rath Pichyangkura;Sarawut Jitrapakdee

  • Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Amplification of DNA of Red Sea Bream Iridovirus (RSIV)

    Jun Kurita;Kazuhiro Nakajima;Ikuo Hirono;Takashi Aoki

  • Molecular cloning, expression and evolution of the Japanese flounder goose-type lysozyme gene, and the lytic activity of its recombinant protein.

    Jun-ichi Hikima;Sonomi Minagawa;Ikuo Hirono;Takashi Aoki

  • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of bacilliform virus (RV‐PJ) DNA in Penaeus japonicus Bate and systemic ectodermal and mesodermal baculovirus (SEMBV) DNA in Penaeus monodon Fabricius

    Y Takahashi;T Itami;M Maeda;N Suzuki

  • Iron-regulated haemolysin gene from Edwardsiella tarda

    Ikuo Hirono;Nahoko Tange;Takashi Aoki

  • Use of a cDNA microarray to study immunity against viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) following DNA vaccination

    Ju Yong Byon;Tsuyoshi Ohira;Ikuo Hirono;Takashi Aoki

  • Cloning, expression and antimicrobial activity of crustinPm1, a major isoform of crustin, from the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

    Premruethai Supungul;Sureerat Tang;Cherdsak Maneeruttanarungroj;Vichien Rimphanitchayakit

  • Short Communication Koi herpesvirus represents a third cyprinid herpesvirus (CyHV-3) in the family Herpesviridae

    Thomas B. Waltzek;Garry O. Kelley;David M. Stone;Larry Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Takashi Aoki
Takashi Aoki Waseda University
Hidehiro Kondo
Hidehiro Kondo Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Anchalee Tassanakajon
Anchalee Tassanakajon Chulalongkorn University
Shuichi Satoh
Shuichi Satoh Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Shugo Watabe
Shugo Watabe Kitasato University
Chu Fang Lo
Chu Fang Lo National Cheng Kung University
Yoshikazu Yuki
Yoshikazu Yuki University of Tokyo
Shuichi Asakawa
Shuichi Asakawa University of Tokyo
Haruko Takeyama
Haruko Takeyama Waseda University
Hiroshi Kiyono
Hiroshi Kiyono University of Tokyo

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