Kohei Oguchi, Toshiyuki Harumoto, Tatsuya Katsuno, Yu Matsuura, Soma Chiyoda, Takema Fukatsu. Intracellularity, extracellularity, and squeezing in the symbiotic organ underpin nurturing and functioning of bacterial symbiont in leaf beetles. iScience. 2024. 27. 5. 109731-109731
Marleny García-Lozano, Christine Henzler, Miguel Ángel González Porras, Inès Pons, Aileen Berasategui, Christa Lanz, Heike Budde, Kohei Oguchi, Yu Matsuura, Yannick Pauchet, et al. Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles. Current Biology. 2024
Federica Calevro, Patrick Callaerts, Yu Matsuura, Anna Michalik. Editorial: Symbiotic organs in insects: development, metabolism, and physiological regulation. Frontiers in Physiology. 2023. 14
Seonghan Jang, Yu Matsuura, Kota Ishigami, Peter Mergaert, Yoshitomo Kikuchi. Symbiont coordinates stem cell proliferation, apoptosis, and morphogenesis of gut symbiotic organ in the stinkbug-Caballeronia symbiosis. Frontiers in physiology. 2023. 13. 1071987-1071987
Yu Matsuura. On the evolutionary developmental origin and molecular bases of bacteriocyte symbioses in lygaeoid stinkbugs. XXVII International Congress of Entomology, ICE 2024 KYOTO. 2024. 10. 1-05
Tomoki Hisaoka, Reiko Sekine, Takashi Matsuyama, Yu-Bing Huang, Hideomi Itoh, Koh-Ichi Takakura, Takayoshi Nishida, Atsushi Honma, Yu Matsuura. 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. 2024
Umanzor, EF, SE Kelly, Y Matsuura, MS Hunter. The role of the intracellular symbiont Lariskella in a leaf-footed bug. 2023
Yu Matsuura. Why did entomoparasitic Ophiocordyceps fungi evolve into beneficial endosymbionts of hemipteran insects?. 2023
2010 - 2013 University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences
2008 - 2010 University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences Agro-Biological Resource Science
2006 - 2008 Osaka City University Faculty of Science Biology
2000 - 2005 Osaka University of Foreign Studies Department of Foreign Studies Comparative Cultures
Professional career (1):
Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba)
Work history (5):
2024/10 - 現在 The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University
2024/10 - 現在 Graduate School of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus
2016/03 - 現在 University of the Ryukyus Tropical Biosphere Research Center Assistant Professor
2013/04 - 2016/02 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Environmental Science JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2010/04 - 2013/03 University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences JSPS Pre-doctoral Research Fellow (DC1)
Committee career (5):
2023/10 - 現在 琉球大学ジェンダー協働推進室 室員
2023/07 - 現在 The 12th International Wolbachia Conference 2025 Organizing Committee
2020/06 - 現在 Symbiosis - International Symbiosis Society (ISS) Symbiosis Associate Editor
2023/03 - 2023/09 日本進化学会 日本進化学会第25回沖縄大会実行委員
2020/04 - 2020/09 日本進化学会 日本進化学会第22回オンライン大会実行委員
Awards (3):
2019 - Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan Young Scientist Initiative Award, SESJ
2010/09 - Zoological Science Award Huge Symbiotic Organs in Giant Scale Insects of the Genus Drosicha (Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) Harbor Flavobacterial and Enterobacterial Endosymbionts