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Toshifumi Minamoto

Toshifumi Minamoto

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
12456
World Ranking
3769
National Ranking
13

Overview

Toshifumi Minamoto is affiliated with Kobe University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to environmental DNA, encompassing areas such as Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Toshifumi Minamoto include:

  • An illustrated manual for environmental DNA research: Water sampling guidelines and experimental protocols (2020, Environmental DNA)
  • Sedimentary eDNA provides different information on timescale and fish species composition compared with aqueous eDNA (2020, Environmental DNA)
  • Estimating fish population abundance by integrating quantitative data on environmental DNA and hydrodynamic modelling (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • Complex interactions between environmental DNA (eDNA) state and water chemistries on eDNA persistence suggested by meta-analyses (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Linking the state of environmental DNA to its application for biomonitoring and stock assessment: Targeting mitochondrial/nuclear genes, and different DNA fragment lengths and particle sizes (2021, Environmental DNA)

Toshifumi Minamoto has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Masayuki K. Sakata
  • Hideyuki Doi
  • Hiroki Yamanaka
  • Masaki Miya
  • Satoshi Yamamoto

Their research has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Environmental DNA
  • Limnology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Fisheries Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species.

    M. Miya;Y. Sato;T. Fukunaga;T. Sado

  • Estimation of fish biomass using environmental DNA.

    Teruhiko Takahara;Toshifumi Minamoto;Hiroki Yamanaka;Hideyuki Doi

  • Using Environmental DNA to Estimate the Distribution of an Invasive Fish Species in Ponds

    Teruhiko Takahara;Toshifumi Minamoto;Hideyuki Doi

  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals local fish communities in a species-rich coastal sea

    Satoshi Yamamoto;Reiji Masuda;Yukuto Sato;Tetsuya Sado

  • The Release Rate of Environmental DNA from Juvenile and Adult Fish

    Atsushi Maruyama;Keisuke Nakamura;Hiroki Yamanaka;Michio Kondoh

  • Environmental DNA analysis for estimating the abundance and biomass of stream fish

    Hideyuki Doi;Ryutei Inui;Yoshihisa Akamatsu;Kazuki Kanno

  • Use of droplet digital PCR for estimation of fish abundance and biomass in environmental DNA surveys.

    Hideyuki Doi;Kimiko Uchii;Teruhiko Takahara;Saeko Matsuhashi

  • Surveillance of fish species composition using environmental DNA

    Toshifumi Minamoto;Hiroki Yamanaka;Teruhiko Takahara;Mie N. Honjo

  • Environmental DNA as a 'snapshot' of fish distribution: A case study of Japanese jack mackerel in Maizuru Bay, Sea of Japan

    Satoshi Yamamoto;Kenji Minami;Keiichi Fukaya;Kohji Takahashi

  • Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Outperforms Real-Time PCR in the Detection of Environmental DNA from an Invasive Fish Species

    Hideyuki Doi;Teruhiko Takahara;Toshifumi Minamoto;Saeko Matsuhashi

  • Effect of water temperature and fish biomass on environmental DNA shedding, degradation, and size distribution.

    Toshiaki Jo;Hiroaki Murakami;Satoshi Yamamoto;Satoshi Yamamoto;Reiji Masuda

  • A basin‐scale application of environmental DNA assessment for rare endemic species and closely related exotic species in rivers: a case study of giant salamanders in Japan

    Sou Fukumoto;Sou Fukumoto;Atushi Ushimaru;Toshifumi Minamoto

  • Water temperature-dependent degradation of environmental DNA and its relation to bacterial abundance

    Satsuki Tsuji;Masayuki Ushio;Masayuki Ushio;Masayuki Ushio;Sho Sakurai;Toshifumi Minamoto

  • Quantitative monitoring of multispecies fish environmental DNA using high-throughput sequencing

    Masayuki Ushio;Masayuki Ushio;Hiroaki Murakami;Reiji Masuda;Tetsuya Sado

  • An illustrated manual for environmental DNA research: Water sampling guidelines and experimental protocols

    Toshifumi Minamoto;Masaki Miya;Tetsuya Sado;Satoquo Seino

  • Rapid degradation of longer DNA fragments enables the improved estimation of distribution and biomass using environmental DNA

    Toshiaki Jo;Hiroaki Murakami;Reiji Masuda;Masayuki K. Sakata

  • A simple method for preserving environmental DNA in water samples at ambient temperature by addition of cationic surfactant

    Hiroki Yamanaka;Toshifumi Minamoto;Junichi Matsuura;Sho Sakurai

  • Dispersion and degradation of environmental DNA from caged fish in a marine environment

    Hiroaki Murakami;Seokjin Yoon;Akihide Kasai;Toshifumi Minamoto

  • The use of environmental DNA of fishes as an efficient method of determining habitat connectivity

    Hiroki Yamanaka;Toshifumi Minamoto

  • A novel environmental DNA approach to quantify the cryptic invasion of non-native genotypes

    Kimiko Uchii;Kimiko Uchii;Hideyuki Doi;Hideyuki Doi;Toshifumi Minamoto

  • Quantitative monitoring of multispecies fish environmental DNA using high-throughput sequencing

    Masayuki Ushio;Hiroaki Murakami;Reiji Masuda;Tetsuya Sado

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroki Yamanaka
Hiroki Yamanaka Ryukoku University
Hideyuki Doi
Hideyuki Doi Kyoto University
Reiji Masuda
Reiji Masuda Kyoto University
Masaki Miya
Masaki Miya Natural History Museum and Institute
Marcello Otake Sato
Marcello Otake Sato Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
Yoh Yamashita
Yoh Yamashita Kyoto University
Norio Ishida
Norio Ishida National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hiroki Yamanaka
Hiroki Yamanaka Hyogo College of Medicine
Tetsuo Asai
Tetsuo Asai Gifu University
Katsumi Tsukamoto
Katsumi Tsukamoto University of Tokyo

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