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Yoshitomo Kikuchi publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yoshitomo Kikuchi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 104 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yoshitomo Kikuchi D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yoshitomo Kikuchi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yoshitomo Kikuchi is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the interplay between insects and their symbiotic bacteria, exploring ecological, evolutionary, and applied aspects of insect microbiota and pest management.

The main fields of study associated with Kikuchi's work include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine. Their research spans several subfields such as Insect Science, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Plant Science, Genetics, and Immunology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several main topics, highlighting the diversity of their research interests:

  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms

Kikuchi has published articles in a range of scientific venues, frequently appearing in the following journals and platforms:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • European Radiology
  • Microbes and Environments
  • PLoS ONE

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Kikuchi include:

  • Burkholderia insecticola triggers midgut closure in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris to prevent secondary bacterial infections of midgut crypts (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Impact of the insect gut microbiota on ecology, evolution, and industry (2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science)
  • Insecticide resistance by a host-symbiont reciprocal detoxification (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Dual oxidase enables insect gut symbiosis by mediating respiratory network formation (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Insecticide resistance governed by gut symbiosis in a rice pest, Cletus punctiger, under laboratory conditions (2021, Biology Letters)

Kikuchi collaborates regularly with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Kota Ishigami
  • Seonghan Jang
  • Peter Mergaert
  • Tsubasa Ohbayashi
  • Hideomi Itoh

Best Publications

  • Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Masahito Hayatsu;Takahiro Hosokawa;Atsushi Nagayama

  • Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

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

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

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takema Fukatsu

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

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

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

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takema Fukatsu

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

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

  • Endosymbiotic bacteria in insects: their diversity and culturability.

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi

  • Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect

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

  • Gut symbiotic bacteria of the genus Burkholderia in the broad-headed bugs Riptortus clavatus and Leptocorisa chinensis (Heteroptera: Alydidae).

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Xian-Ying Meng;Takema Fukatsu

  • Detoxifying symbiosis: microbe-mediated detoxification of phytotoxins and pesticides in insects

    Hideomi Itoh;Kanako Tago;Masahito Hayatsu;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi

  • Insect’s intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

    Tsubasa Ohbayashi;Kazutaka Takeshita;Kazutaka Takeshita;Wataru Kitagawa;Wataru Kitagawa;Naruo Nikoh

  • Diversity of Wolbachia Endosymbionts in Heteropteran Bugs

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takema Fukatsu

  • Specific developmental window for establishment of an insect-microbe gut symbiosis.

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Takahiro Hosokawa;Takema Fukatsu

  • Collapse of Insect Gut Symbiosis under Simulated Climate Change

    Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Akiyo Tada;Dmitry L. Musolin;Nobuhiro Hari

  • Primary Gut Symbiont and Secondary, Sodalis-Allied Symbiont of the Scutellerid Stinkbug Cantao ocellatus

    Nahomi Kaiwa;Takahiro Hosokawa;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Naruo Nikoh

  • Leeches and their microbiota: naturally simple symbiosis models

    Joerg Graf;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Rita V.M. Rio

  • Impact of the insect gut microbiota on ecology, evolution, and industry

    Seonghan Jang;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi

  • Host-symbiont specificity determined by microbe-microbe competition in an insect gut.

    Hideomi Itoh;Seonghan Jang;Kazutaka Takeshita;Tsubasa Ohbayashi

  • Polyester synthesis genes associated with stress resistance are involved in an insect–bacterium symbiosis

    Jiyeun Kate Kim;Yeo Jin Won;Naruo Nikoh;Hiroshi Nakayama

  • The making of symbiont capsule in the plataspid stinkbug Megacopta punctatissima

    Takahiro Hosokawa;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Yoshitomo Kikuchi;Xien Ying Meng;Takema Fukatsu

Frequent Co-Authors

Takema Fukatsu
Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Naruo Nikoh
Naruo Nikoh The Open University of Japan
Yoichi Kamagata
Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Bok Luel Lee
Bok Luel Lee Pusan National University
Shuji Shigenobu
Shuji Shigenobu National Institute for Basic Biology
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Atsushi Ogata
Atsushi Ogata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Masakazu Shimada
Masakazu Shimada University of Tokyo
Leo Eberl
Leo Eberl University of Zurich
Evi Kostenis
Evi Kostenis University of Bonn

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