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D-Index
76
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19093
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1431
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625

Moriya Ohkuma publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Moriya Ohkuma sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 479 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Moriya Ohkuma D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Moriya Ohkuma sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Moriya Ohkuma is affiliated with National Presto Industries in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work broadly spans various subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Food Science.

The scientist's research topics focus on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Probiotics and Fermented Foods, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Gut Microbiota and Health, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Validation and standardization of DNA extraction and library construction methods for metagenomics-based human fecal microbiome measurements (2021) published in Microbiome
  • Microbial interaction between the succinate-utilizing bacterium Phascolarctobacterium faecium and the gut commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (2020) published in MicrobiologyOpen
  • gcType: a high-quality type strain genome database for microbial phylogenetic and functional research (2020) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Increased Mutation Rate Is Linked to Genome Reduction in Prokaryotes (2020) published in Current Biology
  • Genome-based, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic classification of Faecalibacterium strains: proposal of three novel species Faecalibacterium duncaniae sp. nov., Faecalibacterium hattorii sp. nov. and Faecalibacterium gallinarum sp. nov. (2022) published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Moriya Ohkuma frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mitsuo Sakamoto
  • Shingo Kato
  • Takashi Itoh
  • Masahiro Yuki
  • Takao Iino

Best Publications

  • Tempo and Mode of Genome Evolution in the Budding Yeast Subphylum.

    Xing-Xing Shen;Dana A. Opulente;Dana A. Opulente;Jacek Kominek;Jacek Kominek;Xiaofan Zhou;Xiaofan Zhou

  • Termite symbiotic systems: efficient bio-recycling of lignocellulose.

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  • Intra- and Interspecific Comparisons of Bacterial Diversity and Community Structure Support Coevolution of Gut Microbiota and Termite Host

    Yuichi Hongoh;Pinsurang Deevong;Tetsushi Inoue;Shigeharu Moriya

  • Defensive Bacteriome Symbiont with a Drastically Reduced Genome

    Atsushi Nakabachi;Reiko Ueoka;Reiko Ueoka;Kenshiro Oshima;Roberta Teta

  • Molecular analysis of bacterial microbiota in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus (Isoptera; Rhinotermitidae)

    Yuichi Hongoh;Moriya Ohkuma;Toshiaki Kudo

  • Phylogenetic diversity of the intestinal bacterial community in the termite Reticulitermes speratus

    M Ohkuma;T Kudo

  • Evaluation of primers and PCR conditions for the analysis of 16S rRNA genes from a natural environment

    Yuichi Hongoh;Hiroe Yuzawa;Moriya Ohkuma;Toshiaki Kudo;Toshiaki Kudo

  • Symbioses of flagellates and prokaryotes in the gut of lower termites

    Moriya Ohkuma

  • Complete genome of the uncultured Termite Group 1 bacteria in a single host protist cell

    Yuichi Hongoh;Vineet K. Sharma;Tulika Prakash;Satoko Noda

  • Macellibacteroides fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Porphyromonadaceae isolated from an upflow anaerobic filter treating abattoir wastewaters

    Linda Jabari;Linda Jabari;Hana Gannoun;Jean-Luc Cayol;Abdeljabbar Hedi

  • Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea: Sequencing a Myriad of Type Strains

    Nikos C. Kyrpides;Philip Hugenholtz;Jonathan A. Eisen;Tanja Woyke

  • Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a Novel Methanogen from the Anaerobic Digested Sludge, and Proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a Methanogenic Lineage of the Class Thermoplasmata

    Takao Iino;Hideyuki Tamaki;Satoshi Tamazawa;Satoshi Tamazawa;Yoshiyuki Ueno

  • Genome of an Endosymbiont Coupling N2 Fixation to Cellulolysis Within Protist Cells in Termite Gut

    Yuichi Hongoh;Vineet K. Sharma;Tulika Prakash;Satoko Noda

  • Role of the Termite Gut Microbiota in Symbiotic Digestion

    Andreas Brune;Moriya Ohkuma

  • Phylogenetic diversity of nitrogen fixation genes in the symbiotic microbial community in the gut of diverse termites.

    Moriya Ohkuma;Satoko Noda;Toshiaki Kudo

  • Comprehensive microbiological findings in peri-implantitis and periodontitis.

    Tatsuro Koyanagi;Mitsuo Sakamoto;Yasuo Takeuchi;Noriko Maruyama

  • Complete Genome of Ignavibacterium album, a Metabolically Versatile, Flagellated, Facultative Anaerobe from the Phylum Chlorobi

    Zhenfeng Liu;Niels-Ulrik Frigaard;Kajetan Vogl;Takao Iino

  • Diversity, Structure, and Evolution of the Termite Gut Microbial Community

    Moriya Ohkuma;Andreas Brune

  • Cospeciation in the triplex symbiosis of termite gut protists (Pseudotrichonympha spp.), their hosts, and their bacterial endosymbionts.

    S. Noda;O. Kitade;T. Inoue;M. Kawai

  • Analysis of microbiota associated with peri-implantitis using 16S rRNA gene clone library.

    Tatsuro Koyanagi;Mitsuo Sakamoto;Yasuo Takeuchi;Moriya Ohkuma

  • Diversity of Nitrogen Fixation Genes in the Symbiotic Intestinal Microflora of the Termite Reticulitermes speratus.

    Moriya Ohkuma;Satoko Noda;Ron Usami;Koki Horikoshi

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshiaki Kudo
Toshiaki Kudo Nagasaki University
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo
Takashi Sugita
Takashi Sugita Meiji Pharmaceutical University
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Tomoo Sawabe
Tomoo Sawabe Hokkaido University
Eric Viscogliosi
Eric Viscogliosi Institut Pasteur
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Yasukazu Nakamura
Yasukazu Nakamura National Institute of Genetics

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