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Takuro Nunoura is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research spans multiple scientific fields with a focus on Environmental Science, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science, and Geophysics.

Nunoura's work covers a range of significant research topics. These include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Plant Virus Research Studies.

The scientist has published research in various venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbes and Environments
  • Nature Microbiology
  • The ISME Journal

Some recent publications include:

  • "Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes" (2023), Nature
  • "Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria" (2020), Nature Microbiology
  • "Pangenomics Analysis Reveals Diversification of Enzyme Families and Niche Specialization in Globally Abundant SAR202 Bacteria" (2020), mBio
  • "Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages" (2021), The ISME Journal
  • "Three families of Asgard archaeal viruses identified in metagenome-assembled genomes" (2022), Nature Microbiology

Nunoura has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Yoshihiro Takaki
  • Miho Hirai
  • Syun-ichi Urayama
  • Yoshinori Takano
  • P. B. Flemings

Best Publications

  • Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

    Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka;Eva Fernández Cáceres;Jimmy Hser Wah Saw;Disa Bäckström

  • Cell proliferation at 122°C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

    Ken Takai;Kentaro Nakamura;Tomohiro Toki;Urumu Tsunogai

  • Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  • Insights into the evolution of Archaea and eukaryotic protein modifier systems revealed by the genome of a novel archaeal group

    Takuro Nunoura;Yoshihiro Takaki;Jungo Kakuta;Shinro Nishi

  • Major role of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in dark ocean carbon fixation

    Maria G. Pachiadaki;Eva Sintes;Kristin Bergauer;Julia M. Brown

  • Hadal biosphere: Insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

    Takuro Nunoura;Yoshihiro Takaki;Miho Hirai;Shigeru Shimamura

  • Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field.

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hisako Hirayama

  • Inference and reconstruction of the heimdallarchaeial ancestry of eukaryotes

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  • Enzymatic and Genetic Characterization of Carbon and Energy Metabolisms by Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Chemolithoautotrophic Isolates of Epsilonproteobacteria

    Ken Takai;Barbara J. Campbell;S. Craig Cary;Masae Suzuki

  • A primordial and reversible TCA cycle in a facultatively chemolithoautotrophic thermophile

    Takuro Nunoura;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Rikihisa Izaki;Takashi Suwa

  • Isolation and phylogenetic diversity of members of previously uncultivated ε-Proteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal fields

    Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Satoshi Nakagawa;Hisako Hirayama

  • Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system

    Fumio Inagaki;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Urumu Tsunogai;Jun-ichiro Ishibashi

  • Variability in microbial community and venting chemistry in a sediment-hosted backarc hydrothermal system: Impacts of subseafloor phase-separation.

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hitoshi Chiba

  • Fungal diversity in deep-sea sediments – the presence of novel fungal groups

    Yuriko Nagano;Takahiko Nagahama;Yuji Hatada;Takuro Nunoura

  • Hydrothermal fluid geochemistry at the Iheya North field in the mid-Okinawa trough: Implication for origin of methane in subseafloor fluid circulation systems

    Shinsuke Kawagucci;Shinsuke Kawagucci;Hitoshi Chiba;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;Toshiro Yamanaka

  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria

    Alison E. Murray;John Freudenstein;Simonetta Gribaldo;Roland Hatzenpichler

  • Variability in the microbial communities and hydrothermal fluid chemistry at the newly discovered Mariner hydrothermal field, southern Lau Basin

    Ken Takai;Takuro Nunoura;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;John Lupton

  • Characterization of C1-metabolizing prokaryotic communities in methane seep habitats at the Kuroshima Knoll, southern Ryukyu Arc, by analyzing pmoA, mmoX, mxaF, mcrA, and 16S rRNA genes.

    Fumio Inagaki;Urumu Tsunogai;Masae Suzuki;Ayako Kosaka

  • Microbial community and geochemical analyses of trans-trench sediments for understanding the roles of hadal environments.

    Satoshi Hiraoka;Miho Hirai;Yohei Matsui;Yohei Matsui;Akiko Makabe

  • Metagenomic analysis of viral communities in (hado)pelagic sediments.

    Mitsuhiro Yoshida;Yoshihiro Takaki;Masamitsu Eitoku;Takuro Nunoura

  • Liquid CO2 venting on the seafloor: Yonaguni Knoll IV hydrothermal system, Okinawa Trough

    Uta Konno;Urumu Tsunogai;Fumiko Nakagawa;Miwako Nakaseama

  • Spatial Distribution of Marine Crenarchaeota Group I in the Vicinity of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Systems

    Ken Takai;Hanako Oida;Yohey Suzuki;Hisako Hirayama

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Koki Horikoshi
Koki Horikoshi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Urumu Tsunogai
Urumu Tsunogai Nagoya University
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Cinzia Corinaldesi
Cinzia Corinaldesi Marche Polytechnic University

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