Ken Takai

Overview

Best Publications

• Rapid detection and quantification of members of the archaeal community by quantitative PCR using fluorogenic probes.

  Ken Takai;Koki Horikoshi

  967
  Citations

• Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

  Ken Takai;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomohiro Toki;Urumu Tsunogai

  967
  Citations

• Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

  Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  793
  Citations

• The versatile epsilon-proteobacteria: key players in sulphidic habitats.

  Barbara J. Campbell;Annette Summers Engel;Megan L. Porter;Ken Takai

  784
  Citations

• Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

  Hiroyuki Imachi;Masaru K. Nobu;Nozomi Nakahara;Nozomi Nakahara;Nozomi Nakahara;Yuki Morono

  713
  Citations

• Genetic Diversity of Archaea in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Environments

  Ken Takai;Koki Horikoshi

  606
  Citations

• Microbial Communities Associated with Geological Horizons in Coastal Subseafloor Sediments from the Sea of Okhotsk

  Fumio Inagaki;Masae Suzuki;Ken Takai;Hanako Oida

  557
  Citations

• Archaeal diversity in waters from deep South African gold mines.

  Ken Takai;Duane P. Moser;Mary DeFlaun;Tullis C. Onstott

  460
  Citations

• Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the e-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments

  Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson;Koki Horikoshi

  435
  Citations

• Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

  Takuro Nunoura;Yoshihiro Takaki;Jungo Kakuta;Shinro Nishi

  369
  Citations

• Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

  David W. Waite;Inka Vanwonterghem;Christian Rinke;Donovan H. Parks

  367
  Citations

• Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure.

  Ken Takai;Tetsushi Komatsu;Fumio Inagaki;Koki Horikoshi

  355
  Citations

• Deep-sea vent chemoautotrophs: diversity, biochemistry and ecological significance

  Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai

  326
  Citations

• Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Sulfurimonas denitrificans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas.

  Ken Takai;Masae Suzuki;Satoshi Nakagawa;Masayuki Miyazaki

  322
  Citations

• Hadal biosphere: Insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

  Takuro Nunoura;Yoshihiro Takaki;Miho Hirai;Shigeru Shimamura

  314
  Citations

• Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing ε-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

  Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Hideki Kobayashi;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson

  308
  Citations

• Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field.

  Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hisako Hirayama

  303
  Citations

• Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal field

  Ken Takai;Toshitaka Gamo;Urumu Tsunogai;Noriko Nakayama

  294
  Citations

• Submarine hydrothermal activity and gold-rich mineralization at Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand

  Cornel E. J. de Ronde;Gary J. Massoth;David A. Butterfield;Bruce W. Christenson

  293
  Citations

• Deep-sea vent -proteobacterial genomes provide insights into emergence of pathogens

  Satoshi Nakagawa;Yoshihiro Takaki;Shigeru Shimamura;Anna-Louise Reysenbach

  267
  Citations