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• Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles

  García-Lozano M, Henzler H, Porras M, Pons I, Berasategui A, Lanz C, Budde H, Oguchi K, Matsuura Y, Pauchet Y, Goffredi S, Fukatsu T, Windsor D, Salem H

  Current Biology     2024 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

  Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

• Editorial: Symbiotic organs in insects: development, metabolism, and physiological regulation

  Federica Calevro, Patrick Callaerts, Yu Matsuura, Anna Michalik

  Frontiers in Physiology   ( 14 )   2023.07 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

  Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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• Oviposition preference of solanum fruit fly Bactrocera latifrons (Diptera: Tephritidae) invaded Ryukyu Islands, Southwest Japan

  Tomoki Hisaoka, Atsushi Honma, Takashi Matsuyama, Yu Matsuura, Takayoshi Nishida, Koh-Ichi Takakura

  Jpn. J. Environ. Entomol. Zool. ( 環動昆 )  34 ( 1 ) 1 - 8   2023.05 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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• Symbiont coordinates stem cell proliferation, apoptosis, and morphogenesis of gut symbiotic organ in the stinkbug-Caballeronia symbiosis.

  Jang S, Matsuura Y, Ishigami K, Mergaert P, Kikuchi Y

  Frontiers in physiology ( Frontiers in Physiology )  13   1071987   2023.01 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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• Worker-dependent gut symbiosis in an ant

  Hiroyuki Shimoji, Hideomi Itoh, Yu Matsuura, Rio Yamashita, Tomoyuki Hori, Masaru K. Hojo, Yoshitomo Kikuchi

  ISME Communications ( Springer Science and Business Media LLC )  1 ( Article# 60 ) 1 - 10   2021.10 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

  Type of publication: Research paper (scientific journal)

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  <title>Abstract</title>The hallmark of eusocial insects, honeybees, ants, and termites, is division of labor between reproductive and non-reproductive worker castes. In addition, environmental adaption and ecological dominance are also underpinned by symbiotic associations with beneficial microorganisms. Microbial symbionts are generally considered to be maintained in an insect colony in two alternative ways: shared among all colony members or inherited only by a specific caste. Especially in ants, the reproductive caste plays a crucial role in transmission of the symbionts shared among colony members over generations. Here, we report an exceptional case, the worker-dependent microbiota in an ant, <italic>Diacamma</italic> cf. <italic>indicum</italic> from Japan. By collecting almost all the individuals from 22 colonies in the field, we revealed that microbiota of workers is characterized by a single dominant bacterium localized at the hindgut. The bacterium belonging to an unclassified member within the phylum Firmicutes, which is scarce or mostly absent in the reproductive castes. Furthermore, we show that the gut symbiont is acquired at the adult stage. Collectively, our findings strongly suggest that the specific symbiont is maintained by only workers, demonstrating a novel pattern of ant-associated bacterial symbiosis, and thus further our understanding of host-microbe interactions in the light of sociobiology.

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• Phylogeographic patterns of mitochondrial haplotypes and nuclear genotypes of solanum fruit fly Bactrocera latifrons (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Ryukyu Islands indicate multiple origins and inter-strain breeding of the invasive species in Japan

  Tomoki Hisaoka, Reiko Sekine, Takashi Matsuyama, Yu-Bing Huang, Hideomi Itoh, Koh-Ichi Takakura, Takayoshi Nishida, Atsushi Honma, Yu Matsuura

  Research Square     2024.01

   

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• Symbiotic dynamics of obligate symbiotic bacteria Stammera in tortoise leaf beetle

    P107   2023.09

   

• The role of the intracellular symbiont Lariskella in a leaf-footed bug

  Umanzor EF, Kelly SE, Matsuura Y, Hunter MS

  Wolbachia Conference 2023     2023.06

   

• The role of the intracellular symbiont Lariskella in a leaf-footed bug

  Umanzor EF, Kelly SE, Matsuura Y, Hunter MS

  Animal-Microbe Symbioses, Gordon Research Conference     2023.06

   

• Typhoon-induced Lammas growth promotes the non-dormant life-cycle of the Great Orange Tip butterfly Hebomoia glaucippe

  Kota Ogawa, Wataru Nakamizo, Fukashi Ishiwata, Yu Matsuura, Akiko Satake

  bioRxiv ( Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory )    2023.05

   

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• Young Scientist Initiative Award, SESJ

  2019   Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan  

  Winner: Matsuura Yu

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• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)

  Project Year: 2019.04  -  2023.03 

  Direct: 13,100,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 3,930,000 (YEN)  Total: 17,030,000 (YEN)

• Global exploration of microbial symbionts in stinkbugs: host-symbiont diversity and evolution

  Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))

  Project Year: 2018.10  -  2022.03 

  Direct: 13,700,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 17,810,000 (YEN)  Total: 4,110,000 (YEN)

• Challenging research (sprout)

  Project Year: 2018.06  -  2021.03 

  Direct: 4,900,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 1,470,000 (YEN)  Total: 6,370,000 (YEN)

• Evolvability and mechanism of insect-microbe association

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)

  Project Year: 2017.06  -  2022.03 

  Direct: 114,200,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 148,460,000 (YEN)  Total: 34,260,000 (YEN)

• Exploration of lignocellulolytic enzymes on the surface of bacterial cell walls in the gut of termites using monoclonal antibodies

  Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research

  Project Year: 2015.04  -  2018.03 

  Member: TOKUDA Gaku, FUJISHIMA Masahiro, MIKAELYAN Aram, BRUNE Andreas

  Direct: 2,900,000 (YEN)  Overheads: 870,000 (YEN)  Total: 3,770,000 (YEN)

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  In this study, we attempted to identify bacteria that produce major lignocellulolytic enzymes in the hindgut of higher termites, with the aid of production of monoclonal antibodies against proteins on the surface of bacterial community associated with wood particles using the wood-feeding termite, Nasutitermes takasagoensis. We successfully obtained 15 different monoclonal antibodies, while the screening against the predominantly expressed xylanase in the wood fiber-associated bacterial community identified one monoclonal antibody cross-reacting the xylanase. Indirect fluorescence microscopy using epifluorescence and confocal laser-scanning microscopes indicated that this antibody recognized the entire cell surface of some helical bacteria associated with the wood-fibers in the hindgut. These antibodies are among valuable property for future studies on bacterial symbiosis in termites.

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• かつて貴族の秘薬「冬虫夏草」、養分は虫から  Newspaper, magazine

  読売新聞社  読売新聞オンライン いきものホント？図鑑  2023.6

  Author： Other 

• How to Tame a Zombie Fungus  Newspaper, magazine

  The Atlantic  2018.6

  Author： Other