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Yoichi Kamagata is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific attention to subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation

Yoichi Kamagata has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent works include:

  • "Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface," 2020, Nature
  • "A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism," 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Isolation of a member of the candidate phylum 'Atribacteria' reveals a unique cell membrane structure," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Catabolism and interactions of uncultured organisms shaped by eco-thermodynamics in methanogenic bioprocesses," 2020, Microbiome
  • "Methanogenic archaea use a bacteria-like methyltransferase system to demethoxylate aromatic compounds," 2021, The ISME Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Microbes and Environments and Microbiology Resource Announcements, each with six publications. Other common publication venues include Microorganisms, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, and The ISME Journal.

Collaboration is a significant part of their work, as shown in frequent coauthorships with several researchers, including Hideyuki Tamaki, Masaru K. Nobu, Tadashi Toyama, Yasuhiro Tanaka, and Kazuhiro Mori.

Best Publications

  • Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi.

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Hiroyuki Imachi

  • Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Masaru K. Nobu;Nozomi Nakahara;Nozomi Nakahara;Nozomi Nakahara;Yuki Morono

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization using 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides reveals localization of methanogens and selected uncultured bacteria in mesophilic and thermophilic sludge granules

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Kazunori Nakamura;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov.

    Hui Zhang;Hui Zhang;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Philip Hugenholtz

  • Bellilinea caldifistulae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Longilinea arvoryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., strictly anaerobic, filamentous bacteria of the phylum Chloroflexi isolated from methanogenic propionate-degrading consortia.

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Hiroyuki Imachi;Hiroyuki Imachi;Akiyoshi Ohashi;Hideki Harada;Hideki Harada

  • Thermacetogenium phaeum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium.

    Satoshi Hattori;Yoichi Kamagata;Satoshi Hanada;Hirofumi Shoun

  • Anaerolinea thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Caldilinea aerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous thermophiles that represent a previously uncultured lineage of the domain Bacteria at the subphylum level

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Takeshi Yamada;Satoshi Hanada;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Phylogenetic diversity of mesophilic and thermophilic granular sludges determined by 16s rRNA gene analysis

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Kazuaki Syutsubo;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Microbial dark matter ecogenomics reveals complex synergistic networks in a methanogenic bioreactor.

    Masaru K. Nobu;Takashi Narihiro;Christian Rinke;Yoichi Kamagata

  • Fluorescence-quenching phenomenon by photoinduced electron transfer between a fluorescent dye and a nucleotide base.

    Masaki Torimura;Shinya Kurata;Kazutaka Yamada;Toyokazu Yokomaku

  • Comparative analysis of bacterial diversity in freshwater sediment of a shallow eutrophic lake by molecular and improved cultivation-based techniques.

    Hideyuki Tamaki;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Kazunori Nakamura

  • Methanocella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a methane-producing archaeon, the first isolate of the lineage 'Rice Cluster I', and proposal of the new archaeal order Methanocellales ord. nov.

    Sanae Sakai;Hiroyuki Imachi;Hiroyuki Imachi;Satoshi Hanada;Akiyoshi Ohashi;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., the First Cultured Anaerobe Capable of Degrading Phenol to Acetate in Obligate Syntrophic Associations with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen

    Yan Ling Qiu;Satoshi Hanada;Akiyoshi Ohashi;Hideki Harada

  • Diversity, Localization, and Physiological Properties of Filamentous Microbes Belonging to Chloroflexi Subphylum I in Mesophilic and Thermophilic Methanogenic Sludge Granules

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Hiroyuki Imachi;Yoichi Kamagata;Yoichi Kamagata

  • Analysis of 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Options on the Roche/454 Next-Generation Titanium Sequencing Platform

    Hideyuki Tamaki;Hideyuki Tamaki;Chris L. Wright;Xiangzhen Li;Qiaoyan Lin;Qiaoyan Lin

  • Microlunatus phosphovorus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new gram-positive polyphosphate-accumulating bacterium isolated from activated sludge.

    Kazunori Nakamura;Akira Hiraishi;Yukihiko Yoshimi;Mamoru Kawaharasaki

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

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

  • Methane production from coal by a single methanogen.

    Daisuke Mayumi;Hanako Mochimaru;Hideyuki Tamaki;Kyosuke Yamamoto

  • Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium.

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Satoshi Hanada

  • A Hidden Pitfall in the Preparation of Agar Media Undermines Microorganism Cultivability

    Tomohiro Tanaka;Kosei Kawasaki;Serina Daimon;Wataru Kitagawa;Wataru Kitagawa

  • Fluorescent quenching-based quantitative detection of specific DNA/RNA using a BODIPY® FL-labeled probe or primer

    Shinya Kurata;Takahiro Kanagawa;Kazutaka Yamada;Masaki Torimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuji Sekiguchi
Yuji Sekiguchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hideki Harada
Hideki Harada Tohoku University
Akiyoshi Ohashi
Akiyoshi Ohashi Hiroshima University
Wen-Tso Liu
Wen-Tso Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Isao Yumoto
Isao Yumoto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Cindy H. Nakatsu
Cindy H. Nakatsu Purdue University West Lafayette
Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Yoshitomo Kikuchi National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Min Yang
Min Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Akira Hiraishi
Akira Hiraishi Toyohashi University of Technology

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