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Overview

Maiko Kagami is affiliated with Yokohama National University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific focus on Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Oceanography among subfields of study.

The scientist's work broadly covers topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Polar Research and Ecology, and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology.

Maiko Kagami has published papers in a variety of academic venues, with multiple contributions to Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Mycologia, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, and Ecological Research.

Recent publications include the following:

  • "Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits," 2022, The ISME Journal
  • "Trophic position, elemental ratios and nitrogen transfer in a planktonic host-parasite-consumer food chain including a fungal parasite," 2020, Oecologia
  • "Single dominant diatom can host diverse parasitic fungi with different degree of host specificity," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Molecular Phylogeny of Aphelidium collabens sp. nov. (Aphelida), a Parasitoid of a Green Alga Coccomyxa sp.," 2020, Protist

The frequent coauthors who have contributed to various research projects with Maiko Kagami include Kensuke Seto, Silke Van den Wyngaert, Takehiro Sasaki, Gaku Takimoto, and Naohiro I. Ishii.

Best Publications

  • Fungi in aquatic ecosystems

    Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart;Silke Van den Wyngaert;Maiko Kagami;Christian Wurzbacher

  • Parasitic chytrids: their effects on phytoplankton communities and food-web dynamics

    Maiko Kagami;Arnout de Bruin;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Ellen Van Donk

  • Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs.

    Maiko Kagami;Takeshi Miki;Gaku Takimoto

  • Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems.

    Anthony Amend;Gaetan Burgaud;Michael Cunliffe;Virginia P. Edgcomb

  • Host parasite interactions between freshwater phytoplankton and chytrid fungi (Chytridiomycota)

    Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Arnout de Bruin;Maiko Kagami;M. Rijkeboer

  • The ecology of chytrids in aquatic ecosystems: roles in food web dynamics

    Franck H. Gleason;Maiko Kagami;Emilie Lefèvre;Télesphore Sime-Ngando

  • Discovery of dark matter fungi in aquatic ecosystems demands a reappraisal of the phylogeny and ecology of zoosporic fungi

    Hans Peter Grossart;Hans Peter Grossart;Christian Wurzbacher;Timothy Y. James;Maiko Kagami

  • Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs

    Thijs Frenken;Elisabet Alacid;Stella A. Berger;Elizabeth C. Bourne

  • The parasitic chytrid, Zygorhizidium, facilitates the growth of the cladoceran zooplankter, Daphnia, in cultures of the inedible alga, Asterionella

    Maiko Kagami;Eric von Elert;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Arnout de Bruin

  • Daphnia can protect diatoms from fungal parasitism

    Maiko Kagami;Ellen Van Donk;Arnout de Bruin;M. Rijkeboer

  • Introducing ribosomal tandem repeat barcoding for fungi.

    Christian Wurzbacher;Christian Wurzbacher;Ellen Larsson;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Silke Van den Wyngaert

  • Phytoplankton growth rate as a function of cell size : an experimental test in Lake Biwa

    Maiko Kagami;Jotaro Urabe

  • Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context

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  • To sink or to be lysed? Contrasting fate of two large phytoplankton species in Lake Biwa

    Maiko Kagami;Tek Bahadur Gurung;Takehito Yoshida;Jotaro Urabe

  • Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits

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  • Seasonal succession of zooplankton in the north basin of Lake Biwa

    Takehito Yoshida;Maiko Kagami;Tek Bahadur Gurung;Jotaro Urabe

  • Parasitic chytrids could promote copepod survival by mediating material transfer from inedible diatoms

    Maiko Kagami;Nico R. Helmsing;Ellen van Donk

  • Contrasting effects of a cladoceran (Daphnia galeata) and a calanoid copepod (Eodiaptomus japonicus) on algal and microbial plankton in a Japanese lake, Lake Biwa

    Takehito Yoshida;Tek Bahadur Gurung;Maiko Kagami;Jotaro Urabe

  • Adaptation of the fungal parasite Zygorhizidium planktonicum during 200 generations of growth on homogeneous and heterogeneous populations of its host, the diatom Asterionella formosa

    Arnout de Bruin;Bastiaan Willem Ibelings;Maiko Kagami;Wolf M. Mooij

  • Direct and indirect effects of zooplankton on algal composition in in situ grazing experiments.

    Maiko Kagami;Takehito Yoshida;Tek Bahadur Gurung;Jotaro Urabe

  • Novel basal, fungal lineages from freshwater phytoplankton and lake samples

    Seiji Ishida;Daiki Nozaki;Hans-Peter Grossart;Hans-Peter Grossart;Maiko Kagami

  • Influence of parasitic chytrids on the quantity and quality of algal dissolved organic matter (AOM).

    Yukiko Senga;Shiori Yabe;Takaki Nakamura;Maiko Kagami

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Ellen Van Donk
Ellen Van Donk Utrecht University
Jotaro Urabe
Jotaro Urabe Tohoku University
Bastiaan Willem Ibelings
Bastiaan Willem Ibelings University of Geneva
Télesphore Sime-Ngando
Télesphore Sime-Ngando University of Clermont Auvergne
Dedmer B. Van de Waal
Dedmer B. Van de Waal University of Amsterdam
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Amy S. Gladfelter
Amy S. Gladfelter Duke University
Marie-Elodie Perga
Marie-Elodie Perga University of Lausanne
Shigeo Uchida
Shigeo Uchida National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology

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