Hadal biosphere: insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth T Nunoura, Y Takaki, M Hirai, S Shimamura, A Makabe, O Koide, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (11), E1230-E1236, 2015 | 298 | 2015 |
Microbial community and geochemical analyses of trans-trench sediments for understanding the roles of hadal environments S Hiraoka, M Hirai, Y Matsui, A Makabe, H Minegishi, M Tsuda, E Rastelli, ... The ISME journal 14 (3), 740-756, 2020 | 122 | 2020 |
Microbial diversity in deep-sea methane seep sediments presented by SSU rRNA gene tag sequencing T Nunoura, Y Takaki, H Kazama, M Hirai, J Ashi, H Imachi, K Takai Microbes and Environments 27 (4), 382-390, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
Microbial diversity in sediments from the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the Mariana Trench T Nunoura, M Nishizawa, M Hirai, S Shimamura, P Harnvoravongchai, ... Microbes and environments 33 (2), 186-194, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic, obligately anaerobic and heterotrophic marine Chloroflexi bacterium from a Chloroflexi-dominated microbial community … T Nunoura, M Hirai, M Miyazaki, H Kazama, H Makita, H Hirayama, ... Microbes and environments 28 (2), 228-235, 2013 | 84 | 2013 |
Molecular biological and isotopic biogeochemical prognoses of the nitrification‐driven dynamic microbial nitrogen cycle in hadopelagic sediments T Nunoura, M Nishizawa, T Kikuchi, T Tsubouchi, M Hirai, O Koide, ... Environmental Microbiology 15 (11), 3087-3107, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
Distribution and niche separation of planktonic microbial communities in the water columns from the surface to the hadal waters of the Japan Trench under the eutrophic ocean T Nunoura, M Hirai, Y Yoshida-Takashima, M Nishizawa, S Kawagucci, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 1261, 2016 | 64 | 2016 |
Disturbance of deep-sea environments induced by the M9. 0 Tohoku Earthquake S Kawagucci, YT Yoshida, T Noguchi, MC Honda, H Uchida, H Ishibashi, ... Scientific Reports 2 (1), 270, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
Deepest and hottest hydrothermal activity in the Okinawa Trough: the Yokosuka site at Yaeyama Knoll J Miyazaki, S Kawagucci, A Makabe, A Takahashi, K Kitada, J Torimoto, ... Royal Society Open Science 4 (12), 171570, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
Pangenomics analysis reveals diversification of enzyme families and niche specialization in globally abundant SAR202 bacteria JHW Saw, T Nunoura, M Hirai, Y Takaki, R Parsons, M Michelsen, ... MBio 11 (1), 10.1128/mbio. 02975-19, 2020 | 55 | 2020 |
The first microbiological contamination assessment by deep-sea drilling and coring by the D/V Chikyu at the Iheya North hydrothermal field in the Mid-Okinawa … K Yanagawa, T Nunoura, SM McAllister, M Hirai, A Breuker, L Brandt, ... Frontiers in microbiology 4, 327, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
Library construction from subnanogram DNA for pelagic sea water and deep-sea sediments M Hirai, S Nishi, M Tsuda, M Sunamura, Y Takaki, T Nunoura Microbes and environments 32 (4), 336-343, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
Long-term cultivation and metagenomics reveal ecophysiology of previously uncultivated thermophiles involved in biogeochemical nitrogen cycle S Kato, S Sakai, M Hirai, E Tasumi, M Nishizawa, K Suzuki, K Takai Microbes and environments 33 (1), 107-110, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages M Kerou, RI Ponce-Toledo, R Zhao, SS Abby, M Hirai, H Nomaki, ... The ISME Journal 15 (9), 2792-2808, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
Quantitative viral community DNA analysis reveals the dominance of single-stranded DNA viruses in offshore upper bathyal sediment from Tohoku, Japan M Yoshida, T Mochizuki, SI Urayama, Y Yoshida-Takashima, S Nishi, ... Frontiers in Microbiology 9, 75, 2018 | 46 | 2018 |
Kosmotoga arenicorallina sp. nov. a thermophilic and obligately anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a shallow hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef, southern part of the Yaeyama … T Nunoura, M Hirai, H Imachi, M Miyazaki, H Makita, H Hirayama, ... Archives of microbiology 192, 811-819, 2010 | 46 | 2010 |
Genome‐enabled metabolic reconstruction of dominant chemosynthetic colonizers in deep‐sea massive sulfide deposits S Kato, T Shibuya, Y Takaki, M Hirai, T Nunoura, K Suzuki Environmental microbiology 20 (2), 862-877, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
Microbiota in the coelomic fluid of two common coastal starfish species and characterization of an abundant Helicobacter-related taxon S Nakagawa, H Saito, A Tame, M Hirai, H Yamaguchi, T Sunata, M Aida, ... Scientific Reports 7 (1), 8764, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
Variance and potential niche separation of microbial communities in subseafloor sediments off S himokita P eninsula, J apan T Nunoura, Y Takaki, S Shimamura, J Kakuta, H Kazama, M Hirai, ... Environmental Microbiology 18 (6), 1889-1906, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
Microbial community stratification controlled by the subseafloor fluid flow and geothermal gradient at the Iheya North hydrothermal field in the Mid-Okinawa Trough (Integrated … K Yanagawa, A Breuker, A Schippers, M Nishizawa, A Ijiri, M Hirai, ... Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80 (19), 6126-6135, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |