2026 Takema Fukatsu: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	92	2231	2028	134	122	325	28095

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Takema Fukatsu is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Insect Science, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their work include:

Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Plant and animal studies
Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Insect and Pesticide Research
Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
Insect behavior and control techniques

Takema Fukatsu has multiple recent publications spanning from 2020 to 2022, including:

"Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles," 2020, published in Current Biology
"Relevance of microbial symbiosis to insect behavior," 2020, published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
"Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist," 2022, published in Nature Microbiology
"Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles," 2020, published in Nature Communications
"Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis," 2021, published in Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fukatsu include:

Minoru Moriyama
Ryuichi Koga
Ryo Futahashi
Masaki Mizutani
Takahiro Hosokawa

The scientist publishes frequently in several journals, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Microbiology
Scientific Reports
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology
Microbiology Resource Announcements

Takema Fukatsu has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media:

Microbial Associates of Blood-Sucking Arthropods and Other Animals: Relevance to Their Physiology, Ecology and Evolution, 2023

Best Publications

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

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

1866
Citations
Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Masahito Hayatsu;Takahiro Hosokawa;Atsushi Nagayama

858
Citations
Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

Takahiro Hosokawa;Ryuichi Koga;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Xian Ying Meng

858
Citations
Host Plant Specialization Governed by Facultative Symbiont

Tsutomu Tsuchida;Ryuichi Koga;Takema Fukatsu

640
Citations
Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: a stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generation.

Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takema Fukatsu

530
Citations
Symbiotic bacterium modifies aphid body color.

Tsutomu Tsuchida;Ryuichi Koga;Mitsuyo Horikawa;Tetsuto Tsunoda

505
Citations
Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria

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

487
Citations
Wolbachia infections are virulent and inhibit the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae.

Grant L. Hughes;Ryuichi Koga;Ping Xue;Takema Fukatsu

453
Citations
Evolutionary Relationships of Three New Species of Enterobacteriaceae Living as Symbionts of Aphids and Other Insects

Nancy A. Moran;Jacob A. Russell;Ryuichi Koga;Takema Fukatsu

447
Citations
Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

Filip Husnik;Naruo Nikoh;Ryuichi Koga;Laura Ross

443
Citations
Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism.

Naruo Nikoh;Takahiro Hosokawa;Minoru Moriyama;Kenshiro Oshima

426
Citations
Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid

Ryuichi Koga;Tsutomu Tsuchida;Tsutomu Tsuchida;Takema Fukatsu

409
Citations
Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect

Natsuko Kondo;Naruo Nikoh;Nobuyuki Ijichi;Masakazu Shimada

389
Citations
Diversity and geographic distribution of secondary endosymbiotic bacteria in natural populations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.

Tsutomu Tsuchida;Ryuichi Koga;Harunobu Shibao;Tadao Matsumoto

356
Citations
Defensive Bacteriome Symbiont with a Drastically Reduced Genome

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

344
Citations
Capsule-transmitted gut symbiotic bacterium of the Japanese common plataspid stinkbug, Megacopta punctatissima

Takema Fukatsu;Takahiro Hosokawa

309
Citations
Two intracellular symbiotic bacteria from the mulberry psyllid Anomoneura mori (Insecta, Homoptera).

Takema Fukatsu;Naruo Nikoh

295
Citations
Rickettsia Symbiont in the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: Novel Cellular Tropism, Effect on Host Fitness, and Interaction with the Essential Symbiont Buchnera

Makiko Sakurai;Ryuichi Koga;Tsutomu Tsuchida;Xian-Ying Meng

287
Citations
An ancient but promiscuous host-symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts.

Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takema Fukatsu

286
Citations
Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect

Takahiro Hosokawa;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Masakazu Shimada;Takema Fukatsu

279
Citations