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Yuki Morono is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, with a particular focus on environmental chemistry, molecular biology, and geophysics as subfields. Their work intersects with topics such as methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial community ecology and physiology, and planetary science and exploration.

Their research output includes several recent papers published in reputable scientific venues. Notable publications include:

  • Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface, 2020, Nature
  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone, 2020, Science
  • Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Accessing the Subsurface Biosphere Within Rocks Undergoing Active Low-Temperature Serpentinization in the Samail Ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project), 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Yuki Morono has collaborated frequently with scientists including Verena B. Heuer, Andreas Teske, Virginia P. Edgcomb, Myriam A.C. Kars, and Ivano W. Aiello.

The scientist has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Morono has authored a book chapter in the publication Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Expedition reports titled "Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere" from 2021.

The main scientific fields and specific topics that mark their research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Geophysics

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Best Publications

  • Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

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

  • Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

    Julius S. Lipp;Yuki Morono;Fumio Inagaki;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor

    Fumio Inagaki;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Y Kubo;M W Bowles

  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment.

    Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Hideyuki Doi;Go-Ichiro Uramoto;Lars Wörmer

  • Carbon and nitrogen assimilation in deep subseafloor microbial cells.

    Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Manabu Nishizawa;Motoo Ito

  • Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments

    Steven D'hondt;Steven D'hondt;Fumio Inagaki;Fumio Inagaki;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Lewis J. Abrams

  • Discriminative detection and enumeration of microbial life in marine subsurface sediments

    Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Noriaki Masui;Fumio Inagaki

  • An improved cell separation technique for marine subsurface sediments: applications for high-throughput analysis using flow cytometry and cell sorting

    Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Jens Kallmeyer;Fumio Inagaki

  • Cultivation of methanogenic community from subseafloor sediments using a continuous-flow bioreactor

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Ken Aoi;Ken Aoi;Eiji Tasumi;Yumi Saito

  • Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

    Yoshinori Takano;Yoshito Chikaraishi;Nanako O. Ogawa;Hidetaka Nomaki

  • Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote-eukaryote interface

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

  • Dehalogenation activities and distribution of reductive dehalogenase homologous genes in marine subsurface sediments.

    Taiki Futagami;Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Anna H. Kaksonen

  • Methyl-compound use and slow growth characterize microbial life in 2-km-deep subseafloor coal and shale beds

    Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert;Yuki Morono;Akira Ijiri;Tatsuhiko Hoshino

  • Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone

    Verena B. Heuer;Fumio Inagaki;Yuki Morono;Yusuke Kubo

  • Phylogenetic and enzymatic diversity of deep subseafloor aerobic microorganisms in organics- and methane-rich sediments off Shimokita Peninsula.

    Tohru Kobayashi;Osamu Koide;Kozue Mori;Shigeru Shimamura

  • Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years

    Yuki Morono;Motoo Ito;Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Takeshi Terada

  • Acetogenesis in Deep Subseafloor Sediments of The Juan de Fuca Ridge Flank: A Synthesis of Geochemical, Thermodynamic, and Gene-based Evidence

    Mark A Lever;Verena B Heuer;Yuki Morono;Noriaki Masui

  • Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

    Akira Ijiri;Fumio Inagaki;Yusuke Kubo;Rishi Ram Adhikari

  • Microbial Diversity in Sediments from the Bottom of the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench

    Takuro Nunoura;Manabu Nishizawa;Miho Hirai;Shigeru Shimamura

  • Endospore abundance and d:l-amino acid modeling of bacterial turnover in holocene marine sediment (Aarhus Bay)

    Alice T. Langerhuus;Hans Røy;Mark A. Lever;Yuki Morono

  • Bioturbation as a key driver behind the dominance of Bacteria over Archaea in near-surface sediment.

    Xihan Chen;Thorbjørn Joest Andersen;Yuki Morono;Fumio Inagaki

  • Microbial dormancy in the marine subsurface: Global endospore abundance and response to burial

    Lars Wörmer;Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Marshall W. Bowles;Bernhard Viehweger

  • Niche Separation of Methanotrophic Archaea (ANME-1 and -2) in Methane-Seep Sediments of the Eastern Japan Sea Offshore Joetsu

    Katsunori Yanagawa;Michinari Sunamura;Mark Alexander Lever;Yuki Morono

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs University of Bremen
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Mark A. Lever
Mark A. Lever ETH Zurich
Masataka Kinoshita
Masataka Kinoshita University of Tokyo
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Jens Kallmeyer
Jens Kallmeyer Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Arthur J. Spivack
Arthur J. Spivack University of Rhode Island
Tina Treude
Tina Treude University of California, Los Angeles

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