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Shuji Shigenobu is affiliated with the National Institute for Basic Biology in Japan. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of expertise cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics

Their research topics focus on:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Reproductive Biology

Shigenobu has contributed to numerous scientific papers, notable recent examples include:

  • "Genomes of the Venus Flytrap and Close Relatives Unveil the Roots of Plant Carnivory," 2020, published in Current Biology
  • "The liverwort oil body is formed by redirection of the secretory pathway," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "A novel family of secreted insect proteins linked to plant gall development," 2021, published in Current Biology
  • "Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Ethylene signaling mediates host invasion by parasitic plants," 2020, published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Katsushi Yamaguchi
  • Atsushi Toyoda
  • Tomoaki Nishiyama
  • Mitsuyasu Hasebe
  • Tomoko Shibata

Publications by Shigenobu frequently appear in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Current Biology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

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

  • Genome sequence of the endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids Buchnera sp. APS.

    Shuji Shigenobu;Hidemi Watanabe;Masahira Hattori;Yoshiyuki Sakaki

  • The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan

    Zhuo Wang;Juan Pascual-Anaya;Amonida Zadissa;Wenqi Li

  • The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

    Thomas Bourguignon;Nathan Lo;Stephen L. Cameron;Jan Šobotník

  • Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera

    Atsushi Nakabachi;Shuji Shigenobu;Naoko Sakazume;Toshiyuki Shiraki

  • Identification of a transcription factor in the mosquito‐invasive stage of malaria parasites

    Masao Yuda;Shiroh Iwanaga;Shuji Shigenobu;Gunnar R. Mair

  • Non-molting glossy/shroud encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the ‘Black Box’ of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway

    Ryusuke Niwa;Toshiki Namiki;Katsuhiko Ito;Yuko Shimada-Niwa

  • Transcription factor AP2-Sp and its target genes in malarial sporozoites.

    Masao Yuda;Shiroh Iwanaga;Shuji Shigenobu;Tomomi Kato

  • Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont

    Shuji Shigenobu;Shuji Shigenobu;Alex C. C. Wilson

  • Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles

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

  • Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles

    Timothy R Fallon;Sarah E. Lower;Ching-Ho Chang;Manabu Bessho-Uehara

  • Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge

    Oleg Gusev;Oleg Gusev;Oleg Gusev;Yoshitaka Suetsugu;Richard Cornette;Takeshi Kawashima

  • Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory.

    Kenji Fukushima;Kenji Fukushima;Kenji Fukushima;Xiaodong Fang;David Alvarez-Ponce;Huimin Cai

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

    Nahomi Kaiwa;Takahiro Hosokawa;Naruo Nikoh;Masahiko Tanahashi

  • TOO MUCH LOVE, a Novel Kelch Repeat-Containing F-box Protein, Functions in the Long-Distance Regulation of the Legume–Rhizobium Symbiosis

    Masahiro Takahara;Masahiro Takahara;Shimpei Magori;Takashi Soyano;Satoru Okamoto

  • AphidBase: a centralized bioinformatic resource for annotation of the pea aphid genome

    Fabrice Legeai;Shuji Shigenobu;Shuji Shigenobu;Shuji Shigenobu;Jean-Pierre Gauthier;John Colbourne

  • Role of LOTR1 in Nutrient Transport through Organization of Spatial Distribution of Root Endodermal Barriers

    Baohai Li;Takehiro Kamiya;Lothar Kalmbach;Mutsumi Yamagami

  • Methylome diversification through changes in DNA methyltransferase sequence specificity.

    Yoshikazu Furuta;Hiroe Namba-Fukuyo;Tomoko F. Shibata;Tomoaki Nishiyama

  • Heterotrimeric G proteins control stem cell proliferation through CLAVATA signaling in Arabidopsis.

    Takashi Ishida;Ryo Tabata;Masashi Yamada;Mitsuhiro Aida

  • Sex chromosome turnover contributes to genomic divergence between incipient stickleback species.

    Kohta Yoshida;Takashi Makino;Katsushi Yamaguchi;Shuji Shigenobu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Satoru Kobayashi
Satoru Kobayashi University of Tsukuba
Takema Fukatsu
Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Tomoaki Nishiyama
Tomoaki Nishiyama Kanazawa University
Toru Miura
Toru Miura University of Tokyo
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Shinichiro Sawa
Shinichiro Sawa Kumamoto University
Takehiro Kamiya
Takehiro Kamiya University of Tokyo
Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Yoshitomo Kikuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masayoshi Kawaguchi
Masayoshi Kawaguchi National Institute for Basic Biology

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