Research field (5):
Applied microbiology
, Ecology and environmental science
, Recycling systems and society
, Social-ecological systems
, Evolutionary biology
Research theme for competitive and other funds (12):
2024 - 2028 Exploration of the appearance and behavior of individuals that influence group behavior; Analysis by individual identification of social insects
2021 - 2024 Analysis of collective behavior concerning traffic congestion and road selection; ant's "Kuro-algorithm" and termite's "Shiro-algorithm"
2017 - 2020 Investigation on effect of microbial metabolism in the gut upon growth of host abalone.
2016 - 2017 マトリョーシカ型進化原理の展開
2012 - 2017 Transfer and accumulation of radioactive material in marine ecosystem
2013 - 2015 The development and application of single-cell metabolic analytical techniques for environmental microbes
2011 - 2015 Matryoshka-type evolution
2011 - 2015 Research about environmental symbiotic system by using of advanced genome and transcriptome analysis
2010 - 2011 Efficient cellulolytic systems viewed from metabolomics analyses
2009 - 2011 Basal construction studies for the diversity of algae-protist complexes
Yudai Inabu, Hirokuni Miyamoto, Hideyuki Takahashi, Tamotsu Kato, Shigeharu Moriya, Atsushi Kurotani, Haruki Yamano, Teruno Nakaguma, Naoko Tsuji, Chitose Ishii, et al. Compost fermented with thermophilic Bacillaceae reduces heat stress-induced mortality in laying hens through gut microbial modulation. Animal Microbiome. 2026. 8. 1
Haruki Yamano, Hiroshi Horike, Yutaka Taguchi, Yudai Inabu, Hirokuni Miyamoto, Atsushi Kurotani, Nonomi Suzuki, Shigeharu Moriya, Teruno Nakaguma, Chitose Ishii, et al. Maternal administration of octanoate, a medium-chain fatty acid, improves feed efficiency of Japanese black calves through influencing gut bacteriome structure. Scientific reports. 2025. 15. 1. 33557-33557
Yutaka Taguchi, Haruki Yamano, Yudai Inabu, Hirokuni Miyamoto, Koki Hayasaki, Noriyuki Maeda, Yoshiro Kanmera, Seiji Yamasaki, Noboru Ota, Kenji Mukawa, et al. Causal estimation of the relationship between reproductive performance and the fecal bacteriome in cattle. Animal Microbiome. 2025. 7. 1
Kentaro Harakawa, Shinpei Kawarai, Kirill Kryukov, So Nakagawa, Shigeharu Moriya, Kazuhiko Imakawa. Buccal Swab Samples from Japanese Brown Cattle Fed with Limonite Reveal Altered Rumen Microbiome. Animals. 2024. 14. 13. 1968-1968
Topi Haataja, Henrik Hansson, Shigeharu Moriya, Mats Sandgren, Jerry Ståhlberg. The crystal structure of RsSymEG1 reveals a unique form of smaller GH7 endoglucanases alongside GH7 cellobiohydrolases in protist symbionts of termites. The FEBS journal. 2023
Hirokuni Miyamoto, Nobuhiro Kawachi, Atsushi Kurotani, Wataru Suda, Shigeharu Moriya, Arisa Tsuboi, Makiko Matsuura, Teruno Nakaguma, Chitose Ishii, Naoko Tsuji, et al. Estimation of symbiotic bacterial structure in a sustainable seagrass ecosystem on recycled management. 2022
Hirokuni Miyamoto, Katsumi Shigeta, Wataru Suda, Yasunori Ichihashi, Naoto Nihei, Makiko Matsuura, Arisa Tsuboi, Naoki Tominaga, Masahiko Aono, Muneo Sato, et al. Agricultural quality matrix-based multiomics structural analysis of carrots in soils fertilized with thermophile-fermented compost. 2022
Hirokuni Miyamoto, Wataru Suda, Hiroaki Kodama, Hideyuki Takahashi, Yumiko Nakanishi, Shigeharu Moriya, Kana Adachi, Nao Kiriyama, Masaya Wada, Daisuke Sudo, et al. A novel sustainable role of compost as a universal protective substitute for fish, chicken, pig, and cattle, and its estimation by structural equation modeling. 2022