Igai Katsura

Research theme for competitive and other funds (3)：

Papers (15)：

Masayuki Kaneko, Tatsuki Omori, Katsura Igai, Takako Mabuchi, Miho Sakai-Tazawa, Arisa Nishihara, Kumiko Kihara, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, Moriya Ohkuma, Yuichi Hongoh. Facultative endosymbiosis between cellulolytic protists and methanogenic archaea in the gut of the Formosan termite Coptotermes formosanus. 2024
Katsura Igai, Osamu Kitade, Jieyang Fu, Kazumi Omata, Takahiro Yonezawa, Moriya Ohkuma, Yuichi Hongoh. Fine-scale genetic diversity and putative ecotypes of oxymonad protists coinhabiting the hindgut of Reticulitermes speratus. Molecular Ecology. 2022. 31. 4. 1317-1331
Jumpei Omi, Miho Watanabe-Takahashi, Katsura Igai, Eiko Shimizu, Ching-Yi Tseng, Tomohiro Miyasaka, Tsuyoshi Waku, Shinichiro Hama, Rieka Nakanishi, Yuki Goto, et al. The inducible amphisome isolates viral hemagglutinin and defends against influenza A virus infection. Nature communications. 2020. 11. 1. e162
Takumi Murakami, Shu Onouchi, Katsura Igai, Moriya Ohkuma, Yuichi Hongoh. Ectosymbiotic bacterial microbiota densely colonize the surface of thelastomatid nematodes in the gut of the wood-feeding cockroach Panesthia angustipennis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2019. 95. 2. fiy238
Utami YD, Kuwahara H, Igai K, Murakami T, Sugaya K, Morikawa T, Nagura Y, Yuki M, Deevong P, Inoue T, et al. Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in 'Margulisbacteria' specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of protists in the termite gut. The ISME journal. 2018. 13. 2. 455-467

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Books (2)：

Education (2)：

Work history (1)：

2017/04 - 現在 Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Life Science and Technology

Awards (2)：

2023/11 - 日本共生生物学会 Best Presentation Award シロアリ腸内原生生物の相利共生体への進化
2013/10 - Young Scientist Award Nitrogenase gene (nifH) expression in the gut microbiota of Papua New Guinea highlanders

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