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Naruo Nikoh is affiliated with The Open University of Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on insect-related studies and symbiotic relationships. Their main fields of study extend into subfields such as Insect Science, Plant Science, Genetics, Horticulture, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, entomopathogenic microorganisms in pest control, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, cocoa and sweet potato agronomy, plant and animal studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Naruo Nikoh has published in several scientific venues. The most frequent among them are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nikoh include:

  • Genome Analysis of " Candidatus Regiella insecticola" Strain TUt, Facultative Bacterial Symbiont of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, 2020, Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Host's guardian protein counters degenerative symbiont evolution, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs, 2025, Science
  • Tryptophanase disruption underlies the evolution of insect-bacterium mutualism, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators of Naruo Nikoh include:

  • Ryuichi Koga
  • Takema Fukatsu
  • Takahiro Hosokawa
  • Minoru Moriyama
  • Masahiko Tanahashi

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria

    Takahiro Hosokawa;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Naruo Nikoh;Masakazu Shimada

  • Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

    Filip Husnik;Naruo Nikoh;Ryuichi Koga;Laura Ross

  • Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism.

    Naruo Nikoh;Takahiro Hosokawa;Minoru Moriyama;Kenshiro Oshima

  • Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect

    Natsuko Kondo;Naruo Nikoh;Nobuyuki Ijichi;Masakazu Shimada

  • Two intracellular symbiotic bacteria from the mulberry psyllid Anomoneura mori (Insecta, Homoptera).

    Takema Fukatsu;Naruo Nikoh

  • Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Naruo Nikoh;Xian Ying Meng

  • The secondary endosymbiotic bacterium of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Insecta: homoptera).

    Takema Fukatsu;Naruo Nikoh;Rena Kawai;Ryuichi Koga

  • Spiroplasma Symbiont of the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Insecta: Homoptera)

    Takema Fukatsu;Tsutomu Tsuchida;Naruo Nikoh;Ryuichi Koga

  • Interkingdom host jumping underground: phylogenetic analysis of entomoparasitic fungi of the genus cordyceps.

    Naruo Nikoh;Takema Fukatsu

  • Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: Evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes

    Naruo Nikoh;Kohjiro Tanaka;Fukashi Shibata;Natsuko Kondo

  • Bacterial genes in the aphid genome: absence of functional gene transfer from Buchnera to its host.

    Naruo Nikoh;John P. McCutcheon;Toshiaki Kudo;Shin Ya Miyagishima

  • Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer

    Naruo Nikoh;Atsushi Nakabachi

  • Reductive Evolution of Bacterial Genome in Insect Gut Environment

    Naruo Nikoh;Takahiro Hosokawa;Kenshiro Oshima;Masahira Hattori

  • Insect’s intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

    Tsubasa Ohbayashi;Kazutaka Takeshita;Kazutaka Takeshita;Wataru Kitagawa;Wataru Kitagawa;Naruo Nikoh

  • Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles

    Hisashi Anbutsu;Minoru Moriyama;Naruo Nikoh;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takahiro Hosokawa

  • Obligate bacterial mutualists evolving from environmental bacteria in natural insect populations.

    Takahiro Hosokawa;Yoshiko Ishii;Naruo Nikoh;Manabu Fujie

  • Endosymbiotic Microbiota of the Bamboo Pseudococcid Antonina crawii (Insecta, Homoptera)

    Takema Fukatsu;Naruo Nikoh

  • Complex endosymbiotic microbiota of the citrus psyllid Diaphorina citri (Homoptera: Psylloidea).

    Siti Subandiyah;Naruo Nikoh;Shinji Tsuyumu;Susamto Somowiyarjo

  • Symbiont-supplemented maternal investment underpinning host's ecological adaptation.

    Nahomi Kaiwa;Takahiro Hosokawa;Naruo Nikoh;Masahiko Tanahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Takema Fukatsu
Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Yoshitomo Kikuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo
Yoichi Kamagata
Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Bok Luel Lee
Bok Luel Lee Pusan National University
Masakazu Shimada
Masakazu Shimada University of Tokyo
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics

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