Research theme for competitive and other funds (7):
2019 - 2022 Genome evolution and diversification of obligate symbiotic bacteria in insects: tracking survey of field populations
2018 - 2022 Global exploration of microbial symbionts in stinkbugs: host-symbiont diversity and evolution
2017 - 2022 Evolvability and mechanism of insect-microbe association
2017 - 2020 Can symbiotic bacteria emerging in the Nansei islands establish mutualistic associations with any stinkbugs
2013 - 2018 Artificial symbiotic system between an insect and Escherichia coli - toward molecular genetics and experimental evolutionary biology -
2015 - 2017 Why have intraspecific symbiont polymorphisms of stinkbugs occurred only in the Nansei islands?
2003 - 2005 マルカメムシ類における宿主-共生細菌間の相互作用と共進化
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Papers (59):
Takuma Nakawaki, Shuto Watanabe, Takahiro Hosokawa. The burrower bug Macroscytus japonensis (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) acquires obligate symbiotic bacteria from the environment. Zoological Letters. 2024. 10. 1
Kou Nishimura, Shin-ichi Kudo, Takahiro Hosokawa. Protective function of maternal care against egg predators in the shield bug Sastragala esakii (Hemiptera: Acanthosomatidae). Entomological Science. 2023. 26. 3
Ryuichi Koga, Minoru Moriyama, Naoko Onodera-Tanifuji, Yoshiko Ishii, Hiroki Takai, Masaki Mizutani, Kohei Oguchi, Reiko Okura, Shingo Suzuki, Yasuhiro Gotoh, et al. Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist. Nature microbiology. 2022. 7. 8. 1141-1150
Tsubasa Ohbayashi, Raynald Cossard, Gaëlle Lextrait, Takahiro Hosokawa, Vincent Lesieur, Kazutaka Takeshita, Kanako Tago, Peter Mergaert, Yoshitomo Kikuchi. Intercontinental Diversity of Caballeronia Gut Symbionts in the Conifer Pest Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis. Microbes and Environments. 2022. 37. 3. n/a-n/a
Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Takahiro Hosokawa, Kohei Oguchi, Kaori Miyakoshi, Takema Fukatsu. Spiroplasma as facultative bacterial symbionts of stinkbugs. Frontiers in microbiology. 2022. 13. 1044771-1044771