Full Publication List of Wataru Iwasaki
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Selected publications / Full publication list with Japanese abstracts
112.
Kei Hiruma, Seishiro Aoki, Junya Takino, Takeshi Higa, Yuniar Devi Utami, Akito Shiina, Masanori Okamoto, Masami Nakamura, Nanami Kawamura, Yoshihiro Ohmori, Ryohei Sugita, Keitaro Tanoi, Toyozo Sato, Hideaki Oikawa, Atsushi Minami, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yusuke Saijo.
A fungal sesquiterpene biosynthesis gene cluster critical for mutualist-pathogen transition in Colletotrichum tofieldiae.
Nature Communications, 14, 5288. (2023)
111.
Joel H. Nitta, Shawn W. Laffan, Brent D. Mishler, and Wataru Iwasaki.
canaper: Categorical analysis of neo- and paleo-endemism in R.
Ecography, 2023, e06638. (2023)
110.
Yibang Wang, Hui Zhang, Weiwei Xian, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Chromosome genome assembly and annotation of the spiny red gurnard (Chelidonichthys spinosus).
Scientific Data, 10, 443. (2023)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02357-y / PubMed: 37438353
109.
Chunlai Tam and Wataru Iwasaki.
AlphaCutter: Efficient removal of non-globular regions from predicted protein structures.
Proteomics, 23, 2300176. (2023)
- DOI: 10.1002/pmic.202300176 / PubMed: 37309722
AlphaCutter github
108.
Tomoyuki Mikami, Takafumi Ikeda, Yusuke Muramiya, Tatsuya Hirasawa, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Three-dimensional anatomy of the Tully monster casts doubt on its presumed vertebrate affinities.
Palaeontology, 66, e12646. (2023)
- DOI: 10.1111/pala.12646
- Press Release: UTokyo (in English)
- Spotify podcast: A fossil mystery of Tully monster
Featured in Forbes, Scientific American, etc.
106.
Tao Zhu, Yukuto Sato, Tetsuya Sado, Masaki Miya, and Wataru Iwasaki.
MitoFish, MitoAnnotator, and MiFish Pipeline: Updates in ten years.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 43, msad035. (2023)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad035 / PubMed: 36857197
MitoFish Suite Website
105.
Naoki Konno and Wataru Iwasaki.
Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic system evolution in bacteria.
Science Advances, 9, eadc9130. (2023)
Evodictor github
- DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adc9130 / PubMed: 36630500
- Press Release: Grad Sch Sci of UTokyo (in English)
104.
Kazumori Mise and Wataru Iwasaki.
Unexpected absence of ribosomal protein genes from metagenome-assembled genomes.
ISME Communications, 2, 118. (2022)
103.
Nanako Kanno, Shingo Kato, Moriya Ohkuma, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Iwasaki, and Shinsuke Shigeto.
Nondestructive microbial discrimination using single-cell Raman spectra and random forest machine learning algorithm.
STAR Protocols, 3, 101812. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101812 / PubMed: 36386892
102.
Takao K Suzuki, Motomu Matsui, Sira Sriswasdi, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Lifestyle evolution analysis by binary-state speciation and extinction (BiSSE) model.
Methods in Molecular Biology, 2569, 327-342. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_16 / PubMed: 36083456
101.
Joel H. Nitta, Eric Schuettpelz, Santiago Ramírez-Barahona, and Wataru Iwasaki.
An open and continuously updated fern tree of life.
Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 909768. (2022)
- DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.909768 / PubMed: 36092417
Fern Tree of Life Website
100.
Arnon Plianchaisuk, Kazuya Kusama, Kiyoko Kato, Sira Sriswasdi, Kazuhiro Tamura, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Origination of LTR retroelement-derived NYNRIN coincides with therian placental emergence.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39, msac176. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac176 / PubMed: 35959649
98.
Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki.
Mirage 2.0: fast and memory-efficient reconstruction of gene-content evolution considering heterogeneous evolutionary patterns among gene families.
Bioinformatics, 38, 4039–4041. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac433 / PubMed: 35771653
Mirage github
97.
Taiki Adachi, Yasuhiko Naito, Patrick W. Robinson, Daniel P. Costa, Luis A. Hückstädt, Rachel R. Holser, Wataru Iwasaki, and Akinori Takahashi.
Whiskers as hydrodynamic prey sensors in foraging seals.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119, e2119502119. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119502119 / PubMed: 35696561
Featured in Science, Scientific American, The Guardian, Jiji Press, TV Asahi, and Nippon TV.
96.
Asano Ishikawa, Shun Yamanouchi, Wataru Iwasaki, and Jun Kitano.
Convergent copy number increase of genes associated with freshwater colonization in fishes.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20200509. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0509 / PubMed: 35634928
95.
Yannis Nevers, Tamsin E. M. Jones, Dushyanth Jyothi, Bethan Yates, Meritxell Ferret, Laura Portell-Silva, Laia Codo, Salvatore Cosentino, Marina Marcet-Houben, Anna Vlasova, Laetitia Poidevin, Arnaud Kress, Mark Hickman, Emma Persson, Ivana Piližota, Cristina Guijarro-Clarke, the OpenEBench team, the Quest for Orthologs Consortium, Wataru Iwasaki, Odile Lecompte, Erik Sonnhammer, David S. Roos, Toni Gabaldón, David Thybert, Paul D. Thomas, Yanhui Hu, David M Emms, Elspeth Bruford, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Maria J Martin, Christophe Dessimoz, and Adrian Altenhoff.
The Quest for Orthologs orthology benchmark service in 2022.
Nucleic Acids Research, 50, W623–W632. (2022)
- DOI:10.1093/nar/gkac330 / PubMed: 35552456
Quest for Orthologs Website
Orthology Benchmarking Service
94.
Joel H. Nitta, Brent D. Mishler, Wataru Iwasaki, and Atsushi Ebihara.
Spatial phylogenetics of Japanese ferns: Patterns, processes, and implications for conservation.
American Journal of Botany, 109, 727-745. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1848 / PubMed: 35435239
92.
Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki.
Inverse Potts model improves accuracy of phylogenetic profiling.
Bioinformatics, 38, 1794-1800. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac034 / PubMed: 35060594
Inverse Potts Model github
91.
Naoki Konno, Yusuke Kijima, Keito Watano, Soh Ishiguro, Keiichiro Ono, Mamoru Tanaka, Hideto Mori, Nanami Masuyama, Dexter Pratt, Trey Ideker, Wataru Iwasaki, and Nozomu Yachie.
Deep distributed computing to reconstruct extremely large lineage trees.
Nature Biotechnology, 40, 566-575. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41587-021-01111-2 / PubMed: 34992246
Selected as the cover of the April 2022 issue of Natute Biotechnology.
90.
Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki.
Mirage: Estimation of ancestral gene-copy numbers by considering different evolutionary patterns among gene families.
Bioinformatics Advances, 1, vbab014. (2021)
89.
Masako Nishikawa, Hiroshi Kanno, Yuqi Zhou, Ting-Hui Xiao, Takuma Suzuki, Yuma Ibayashi, Jeffrey Harmon, Shigekazu Takizawa, Kotaro Hiramatsu, Nao Nitta, Risako Kameyama, Walker Peterson, Jun Takiguchi, Mohammad Shifat-E-Rabbi, Yan Zhuang, Xuwang Yin, Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat, Yunjie Deng, Hongqian Zhang, Shigeki Miyata, Gustavo K. Rohde, Wataru Iwasaki, Yutaka Yatomi, and Keisuke Goda.
Massive image-based single-cell profiling reveals high levels of circulating platelet aggregates in patients with COVID-19.
Nature Communications, 12, 7135. (2021)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27378-2 / PubMed: 34887400
Featured in NHK and Nikkei Newspaper.
88.
Gokalp Yildirir, Jana Sperschneider, Mathu Malar C., Eric C. H. Chen, Wataru Iwasaki, Calvin Cornell, and Nicolas Corradi.
Long reads and Hi-C sequencing illuminate the two compartment genome of the model arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiont Rhizophagus irregularis.
New Phytologist, 233, 1097-1107. (2022)
- DOI: 10.1111/nph.17842 / PubMed: 34747029
87.
Nanako Kanno, Shingo Kato, Moriya Ohkuma, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Iwasaki, and Shinsuke Shigeto.
Machine learning-assisted single-cell Raman fingerprinting for in situ and nondestructive classification of prokaryotes.
iScience, 24, 102975. (2021)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102975 / PubMed: 34485857
86.
Yuka W Iwasaki, Sira Sriswasdi, Yasuha Kinugasa, Jun Adachi, Yasunori Horikoshi, Aoi Shibuya, Wataru Iwasaki, Satoshi Tashiro, Takeshi Tomonaga, and Haruhiko Siomi.
Piwi–piRNA complexes induce stepwise changes in nuclear architecture at target loci.
EMBO Journal, 40, e108345. (2021)
- DOI: 10.15252/embj.2021108345 / PubMed: 34337769
85. (Review)
Benjamin Linard, Ingo Ebersberger, Shawn E. McGlynn, Natasha Glover, Tomohiro Mochizuki, Mateus Patricio, Odile Lecompte, Yannis Nevers, QFO Consortium, Paul D. Thomas, Toni Gabaldón, Erik Sonnhammer, Christophe Dessimoz, and Ikuo Uchiyama.
Ten years of collaborative progress in the Quest for Orthologs.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38, 3033-3045. (2021)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab098 / PubMed: 33822172
Quest for Orthologs Website
Orthology Benchmarking Service
84.
Tomoyuki Mikami and Wataru Iwasaki.
The flipping t‐ratio test: phylogenetically informed assessment of the Pareto theory for phenotypic evolution.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 696-706. (2021)
83.
Shotaro Hirase, Ayumi Tezuka, Atsushi J. Nagano, Mana Sato, Sho Hosoya, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Integrative genomic phylogeography reveals signs of mitonuclear incompatibility in a natural hybrid goby population.
Evolution, 75, 176-194. (2021)
- DOI: 10.1111/evo.14120 / PubMed: 33165944
81.
Kazumori Mise and Wataru Iwasaki.
Environmental atlas of prokaryotes enables powerful and intuitive habitat-based analysis of community structures.
iScience, 23, 101624. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101624 / PubMed: 33117966
ProkAtlas Website
80.
Kaori Motoki, Tomo-o Watsuji, Yoshihiro Takaki, Ken Takai, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Metatranscriptomics by in situ RNA stabilization directly and comprehensively revealed episymbiotic microbial communities of deep-sea squat lobsters.
mSystems, 5, e00551-20. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00551-20 / PubMed: 33024051
- Recommended at Faculty Opinions.
79.
Hui Jia, Yibang Wang, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki, Yuquan Li, Weiwei Xian, and Hui Zhang. Seasonal variation and assessment of fish resources in the Yangtze Estuary based on environmental DNA.
Water, 12, 2874. (2020)
- DOI: 10.3390/w12102874
78.
Yu Maeda, Kazumori Mise, Wataru Iwasaki, Akira Watanabe, Susumu Asakawa, Rasit Asiloglu, and Jun Murase.
Invention of artificial rice field soil: A tool to study the effect of soil components on the activity and community of microorganisms involved in anaerobic organic matter decomposition.
Microbes and Environments, 35, ME20093. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME20093 / PubMed: 32963205
77. (Commentary)
Toshifumi Minamoto, Masaki Miya, Tetsuya Sado, Satoquo Seino, Hideyuki Doi, Michio Kondoh, Keigo Nakamura, Teruhiko Takahara, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Yamanaka, Hitoshi Araki, Wataru Iwasaki, Akihide Kasai, Reiji Masuda, and Kimiko Uchii.
An illustrated manual for environmental DNA research: Water sampling guidelines and experimental protocols.
Environmental DNA, 3, 8–13. (2021)
76.
Adrian M Altenhoff, Javier Garrayo-Ventas, Salvatore Cosentino, David Emms, Natasha M Glover, Ana Hernández-Plaza, Yannis Nevers, Vicky Sundesha, Damian Szklarczyk, José M Fernández, Laia Codó, Quest for Orthologs Consortium; Josep Ll Gelpi, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Wataru Iwasaki, Steven Kelly, Odile Lecompte, Matthieu Muffato, Maria J Martin, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Paul D Thomas, Erik Sonnhammer, and Christophe Dessimoz.
The Quest for Orthologs benchmark service and consensus calls in 2020.
Nucleic Acids Research, 48, W538-W545. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa308 / PubMed: 32374845
Quest for Orthologs Website
Orthology Benchmarking Service
75.
Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki.
Logicome Profiler: Exhaustive detection of statistically significant logic relationships from comparative omics data.
PLOS ONE, 15, e0232106. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232106 / PubMed: 32357172
Logicome Profiler Website
74.
Yuji Tokumoto, Kayo Hashimoto, Takashi Soyano, Seishiro Aoki, Wataru Iwasaki, Mai Fukuhara, Tomomi Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Saeki, Jun Yokoyama, Hironori Fujita, and Masayoshi Kawaguchi.
Assessment of Polygala paniculata (Polygalaceae) characteristics for evolutionary studies of legume–rhizobia symbiosis.
Journal of Plant Research, 133, 109-122. (2020)
- Selected as JPR Best Paper Award in 2020.
- DOI: 10.1007/s10265-019-01159-x / PubMed: 31828682
73.
David M. Needham*, Susumu Yoshizawa*, Toshiaki Hosaka*, Camille Poirier, Chang Jae Choi, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Susanne Wilken, Cheuk-Man Yung, Charles Bachy, Rika Kurihara, Yu Nakajima, Keiichi Kojima, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, Guy Leonard, Rex R. Malmstrom, Daniel R. Mende, Daniel K. Olson, Yuki Sudo, Sebastian Sudek, Thomas A. Richards, Edward F. DeLong, Patrick J. Keeling, Alyson E. Santoro, Mikako Shirouzu, Wataru Iwasaki (Co-Corresponding Author), and Alexandra Z. Worden.
A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116, 20574-20583. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907517116 / PubMed: 31548428
72.
Shotaro Hirase, Ayumi Tezuka, Atsushi J. Nagano, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Genetic isolation by distance in the yellowfin goby populations revealed by RAD sequencing.
Ichthyological Research, 67, 98–104 (2020)
71.
Hui Zhang, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki, and Weiwei Xian.
Seasonal fish assemblage structure using environmental DNA in the Yangtze Estuary and its adjacent waters.
Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 515. (2019)
70.
Motomu Matsui and Wataru Iwasaki.
Graph splitting: A graph-based approach for superfamily-scale phylogenetic tree reconstruction.
Systematic Biology, 69, 265-279. (2020)
- DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syz049 / PubMed: 31364707
Graph Splitting Website
69.
Hikari Yoshitane, Yoshimasa Asano, Aya Sagami, Seinosuke Sakai, Yutaka Suzuki, Hitoshi Okamura, Wataru Iwasaki, Haruka Ozaki, and Yoshitaka Fukada.
Functional D-box sequences reset the circadian clock and drive mRNA rhythms.
Communications Biology, 2, 300. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0522-3 / PubMed: 31428688
68.
Sira Sriswasdi, Masako Takashima, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Moriya Ohkuma, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Genome and transcriptome evolve separately in recently hybridized Trichosporon fungi.
Communications Biology, 2, 263. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0515-2 / PubMed: 31341962
67.
Sohta A Ishikawa, Anna Zhukova, Wataru Iwasaki, and Olivier Gascuel.
A fast likelihood method to reconstruct and visualize ancestral scenarios.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 36, 2069-2085. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz131 / PubMed: 31127303
PastML Website
66.
Masako Takashima, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Yuki Nishimura, Rikiya Endoh, Moriya Ohkuma, Sira Sriswasdi, Takashi Sugita, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Recognition and delineation of yeast genera based on genomic data: Lessons from Trichosporonales.
Fungal Genetics and Biology, 130, 31-42. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2019.04.013 / PubMed: 31026590
65.
Mio Takeuchi, Haruka Ozaki, Satoshi Hiraoka, Yoichi Kamagata, Susumu Sakata, Hideyoshi Yoshioka, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Possible cross-feeding pathway of facultative methylotroph Methyloceanibacter caenitepidi Gela4 on methanotroph Methylocaldum marinum S8.
PLOS ONE, 14, e0213535. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213535 / PubMed: 30870453
64.
Satoshi Hiraoka, Yusuke Okazaki, Mizue Anda, Atsushi Toyoda, Shin-ichi Nakano, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Metaepigenomic analysis reveals the unexplored diversity of DNA methylation in an environmental prokaryotic community.
Nature Communications, 10, 159. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08103-y / PubMed: 30635580
63.
Salvatore Cosentino and Wataru Iwasaki.
SonicParanoid: fast, accurate and easy orthology inference.
Bioinformatics, 35, 149–151. (2019)
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty631 / PubMed: 30032301
SonicParanoid Website
62.
Yukuto Sato, Masaki Miya, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Tetsuya Sado, and Wataru Iwasaki.
MitoFish and MiFish pipeline: a mitochondrial genome database of fish with an analysis pipeline for environmental DNA metabarcoding.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35, 1553–1555. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy074 / PubMed: 29668970
MiFish Pipeline Website
61.
Masayuki Ushio, Koichi Murata, Tetsuya Sado, Isao Nishiumi, Masamichi Takeshita, Wataru Iwasaki, and Masaki Miya.
Demonstration of the potential of environmental DNA as a tool for the detection of avian species.
Scientific Reports, 8, 4493. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22817-5 / PubMed: 29540790
60.
Daniel K. Olson, Susumu Yoshizawa, Dominique Boeuf, Wataru Iwasaki, and Edward F. DeLong.
Proteorhodopsin variability and distribution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
The ISME Journal, 12, 1047–1060. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0074-4 / PubMed: 29476140
59.
Tazro Ohta, Takeshi Kawashima, Natsuko O. Shinozaki, Akito Dobashi, Satoshi Hiraoka, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, Keiichi Kanno, Takafumi Kataoka, Shuichi Kawashima, Motomu Matsui, Wataru Nemoto, Suguru Nishijima, Natsuki Suganuma, Haruo Suzuki, Y-h. Taguchi, Yoichi Takenaka, Yosuke Tanigawa, Momoka Tsuneyoshi, Kazutoshi Yoshitake, Yukuto Sato, Riu Yamashita, Kazuharu Arakawa, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Collaborative environmental DNA sampling from petal surfaces of flowering cherry Cerasus × yedoensis ‘Somei-yoshino’ across the Japanese archipelago.
Journal of Plant Research, 131, 709–717. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1007/s10265-018-1017-x / PubMed: 29460198
58.
Yohei Kumagai, Susumu Yoshizawa, Yu Nakajima, Mai Watanabe, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Kazuhiro Kogure, Edward F. DeLong, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Solar-panel and parasol strategies shape the proteorhodopsin distribution pattern in marine Flavobacteriia.
The ISME Journal, 12, 1329-1343. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0058-4 / PubMed: 29410487
57.
Md. Nurul Haider, Masahiko Nishimura, Minoru Ijichi, Ching-chia Yang, Wataru Iwasaki, and Kazuhiro Kogure.
Habitability analyses of aquatic bacteria.
Journal of Oceanography, 74, 197–207. (2018)
56.
Masako Takashima*, Sira Sriswasdi*, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Moriya Ohkuma, Takashi Sugita, and Wataru Iwasaki.
A Trichosporonales genome tree based on 27 haploid and three evolutionarily.
Yeast, 35, 99-111. (2018)
- DOI: 10.1002/yea.3284 / PubMed: 29027707
55.
Marty Kwok Shing Wong, Takehiro Tsukada, Nobuhiro Ogawa, Supriya Pipil, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yoshio Takei.
A sodium binding system alleviates acute salt stress during seawater acclimation in eels.
Zoological Letters, 3, 22. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1186/s40851-017-0081-8 / PubMed: 29255617
54.
Sira Sriswasdi, Ching-chia Yang, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Generalist species drive microbial dispersion and evolution.
Nature Communications, 8, 1162. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01265-1 / PubMed: 29079803
53.
Satoshi Hiraoka, Masaya Miyahara, Kazushi Fujii, Asako Machiyama, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Seasonal analysis of microbial communities in precipitation in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan.
Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 1506. (2017)
- DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01506 / PubMed: 28848519
52.
Masayuki Ushio, Hisato Fukuda, Toshiki Inoue, Kobayashi Makoto, Osamu Kishida, Keiichi Sato, Koichi Murata, Masato Nikaido, Tetsuya Sado, Yukuto Sato, Masamichi Takeshita, Wataru Iwasaki, Hiroki Yamanaka, Michio Kondoh, and Masaki Miya.
Environmental DNA enables detection of terrestrial mammals from forest pond water.
Molecular Ecology Resources, 17, e63-e75. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12690 / PubMed: 28603873
51.
Shotaro Hirase, Sherrie Chambers, Kathryn Hassell, Melissa Carew, Vincent Pettigrove, Kiyoshi Soyano, Masaki Nagae, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Phylogeography of the yellowfin goby Acanthogobius flavimanus in native and non-native distributions.
Marine Biology, 164, 106. (2017)
49.
Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki.
Inactivity periods and postural change speed can explain atypical postural change patterns of Caenorhabditis elegans mutants.
BMC Bioinformatics, 18, 46. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1408-8 / PubMed: 28103804
48.
Koji Yano, Seishiro Aoki, Meng Liu, Yosuke Umehara, Norio Suganuma, Wataru Iwasaki, Shusei Sato, Takashi Soyano, Hiroshi Kouchi and Masayoshi Kawaguchi.
Function and evolution of a Lotus japonicus AP2/ERF family transcription factor that is required for development of infection threads.
DNA Research, 24, 193-203. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsw052 / PubMed: 28028038
47.
Yoshio Takei, Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Supriya Pipil, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Wataru Iwasaki, and Makoto Kusakabe.
Molecular mechanisms underlying active desalination and low water permeability in the esophagus of eels acclimated to seawater.
American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 312, R231-R244. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00465.2016 / PubMed: 28003213
- Introductory Article: Molecular physiological exploration beyond the transcriptome., American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 312, R229-R230. (2017)
46.
Hideki Terajima, Hikari Yoshitane, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Shigeki Shimba, Shinya Kuroda, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yoshitaka Fukada.
ADARB1 catalyzes circadian A-to-I editing and regulates RNA rhythm.
Nature Genetics, 49, 146-151. (2017)
- DOI: 10.1038/ng.3731 / PubMed: 27893733
43.
Sira Sriswasdi, Masako Takashima, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Moriya Ohkuma, Takashi Sugita, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Global deceleration of gene evolution following recent genome hybridizations in fungi.
Genome Research, 26, 1081-1090. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1101/gr.205948.116 / PubMed: 27440871
Featured in Kagaku Kogyo Nippo newspaper (July 21, 2016).
42.
Shotaro Hirase, Yusuke Yokoyama, Cin-Ty Leed, and Wataru Iwasaki.
The Pliocene-Pleistocene transition had dual effects on north American migratory bird speciation.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 462, 85-91. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.006
- Corrigendum (June 2017): 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.04.008
41.
Shotaro Hirase, Minoru Ikeda, Shun Hayasaka, Wataru Iwasaki, and Akihiro Kijima.
Stability of genetic diversity in an intertidal goby population after exposure to tsunami disturbance.
Marine Ecology, 37, 1161-1167. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1111/maec.12377
40.
Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Supriya Pipil, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yoshio Takei.
Flexible selection of diversified Na+/K+-ATPase α-subunit isoforms for osmoregulation in teleosts.
Zoological Letters, 2, 15. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1186/s40851-016-0050-7 / PubMed: 27489726
39. (Review)
Satoshi Hiraoka, Ching-chia Yang, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Metagenomics and bioinformatics in microbial ecology: Current status and beyond.
Microbes and Environments, 31, 204-212. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME16024 / PubMed: 27383682
- Selected as the Most Cited Review Paper in This Three Years in M&E Digest 2019.
38.
Toshiaki Hosaka, Susumu Yoshizawa, Yu Nakajima, Noboru Ohsawa, Masakatsu Hato, Edward F. DeLong, Kazuhiro Kogure, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, Wataru Iwasaki (Co-Corresponding Author), and Mikako Shirouzu.
Structural mechanism for light-driven transport by a new type of chloride ion pump, Nonlabens marinus rhodopsin-3.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291, 17488-17495. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.728220 / PubMed: 27365396
- Selected as Papers of the Week of Journal of Biological Chemistry (representing the top-2% overall importance).
37.
Shotaro Hirase, Hirohiko Takeshima, Mutsumi Nishida, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Parallel mitogenome sequencing alleviates random rooting effect in phylogeography.
Genome Biology and Evolution, 8, 1267-1278. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw063 / PubMed: 27016485
36.
Haruka Ozaki and Wataru Iwasaki.
MOCCS: clarifying DNA-binding motif ambiguity using ChIP-Seq data.
Computational Biology and Chemistry, 63, 62-72. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2016.01.014 / PubMed: 26971251
MOCCS for ChIP-Seq Analysis
- Accepted for a conference paper presentation at 14th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2016).
35.
Satoshi Hiraoka, Asako Machiyama, Minoru Ijichi, Kentaro Inoue, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Susumu Yoshizawa, Kazuhiro Kogure, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Genomic and metagenomic analysis of microbes in a soil environment affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami.
BMC Genomics, 17, 53. (2016)
- DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2380-4 / PubMed: 26764021
- Introductory Article: Sequencing Study Finds Microbial Changes in Japan's Soil Following Tsunami, genomeweb (19 Jan, 2016).
32.
Masako Takashima, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Wataru Iwasaki, Akira Ohyama, Moriya Ohkuma, and Takashi Sugita.
Selection of orthologous genes for construction of a highly resolved phylogenetic tree and clarification of the phylogeny of Trichosporonales species.
PLOS ONE, 10, e0131217. (2015)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131217 / PubMed: 26241762
31.
Masaki Miya, Yukuto Sato, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Tetsuya Sado, Jan Yde Poulsen, Keiichi Sato, Toshifumi Minamoto, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Yamanaka, Hitoshi Araki, Michio Kondoh, and Wataru Iwasaki.
MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species.
Royal Society Open Science, 2, 150088. (2015)
- DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150088 / PubMed: 26587265
Featured in NHK news (July 22, 2015) and several newspapers (Nikkei Shimbun, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, Okinawa Times, Ryukyu Shimpo, Chiba Nippo, etc.).
- Selected as a highly-cited paper in Environment/Ecology (top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science) by Clarivate.
30.
Hirotsugu Ishizu, Yuka W. Iwasaki, Shigeki Hirakata, Haruka Ozaki, Wataru Iwasaki, Haruhiko Siomi, and Mikiko C. Siomi.
Somatic primary piRNA biogenesis driven by cis-acting RNA elements and trans-acting Yb.
Cell Reports, 12, 429-440. (2015)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.06.035 / PubMed: 26166564
29.
Mio Takeuchi, Takao Yamagishi, Yoichi Kamagata, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Taiki Katayama, Satoshi Hanada, Hideyuki Tamaki, Katsumi Marumo, Hiroto Maeda, Munetomo Nedachi, Wataru Iwasaki, Yuichi Suwa, and Susumu Sakata.
Tepidicaulis marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium reducing nitrate to nitrous oxide strictly under microaerobic conditions.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65, 1749-1754. (2015)
- DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.000167 / PubMed: 25740933
27.
Tsukasa Fukunaga, Shoko Kubota, Shoji Oda, and Wataru Iwasaki.
GroupTracker: Video tracking system for multiple animals under severe occlusion.
Computational Biology and Chemistry, 57, 39-45. (2015)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2015.02.006 / PubMed: 25736254
- Supplementary Movies: Supplementary Movies for GroupTracker Paper
- Accepted for a conference paper presentation at 13th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2015).
25.
Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yoshio Takei.
Discovery of osmotic sensitive transcription factors in fish intestine via a transcriptomic approach.
BMC Genomics, 15, 1134. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1134 / PubMed: 25520040
24.
Shotaro Hirase*, Haruka Ozaki*, and Wataru Iwasaki.
Parallel selection on gene copy number variations through evolution of three-spined stickleback genomes.
BMC Genomics, 15, 735. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-735 / PubMed: 25168270
23.
Mio Takeuchi, Yoichi Kamagata, Kenshiro Oshima, Satoshi Hanada, Hideyuki Tamaki, Katsumi Marumo, Hiroto Maeda, Munetomo Nedachi, Masahira Hattori, Wataru Iwasaki, and Susumu Sakata.
Methylocaldum marinum sp. nov., a novel thermotolerant methane oxidizing bacterium isolated from marine sediments.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 64, 3240-3246 (2014)
- DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.063503-0 / PubMed: 24981325
22.
Yohei Kumagai, Susumu Yoshizawa, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Wataru Iwasaki, and Kazuhiro Kogure.
Complete genome sequence of Winogradskyella sp. strain PG-2, a proteorhodopsin-containing marine flavobacterium.
Genome Announcements, 2, e00490-14. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1128/genomeA.00490-14 / PubMed: 24874677
21. (Commentary)
Sebastian J. Schultheiss, Joshua SungWoo Yang, Wataru Iwasaki, Shu-Hsi Lin, Angela Jean, and Magali Michaut
Crossing borders for science.
PLOS Computational Biology, 10, e1003519. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003519 / PubMed: 24675824
20.
Susumu Yoshizawa, Yohei Kumagai, Hana Kim, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Wataru Iwasaki, Edward F. DeLong, and Kazuhiro Kogure.
Functional characterization of flavobacteria rhodopsins reveals a unique class of light-driven chloride pump in bacteria.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111, 6732-6737. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403051111 / PubMed: 24706784
- Introductory Article: Nature’s toolkit for microbial rhodopsin ion pumps, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111, 6538-6539. (2014)
19.
Hikari Yoshitane*, Haruka Ozaki*, Hideki Terajima*, Ngoc-Hien Du, Yutaka Suzuki, Taihei Fujimori, Naoki Kosaka, Shigeki Shimba, Sumio Sugano, Toshihisa Takagi, Wataru Iwasaki (Co-Corresponding Author), and Yoshitaka Fukada.
CLOCK-controlled polyphonic regulations of circadian rhythms through canonical and non-canonical E-boxes.
Molecular and Cellular Biology, 34, 1776-1787. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01465-13 / PubMed: 24591654
- Introductory Article: Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 34, 1721. (2014)
18. (Review)
Toshiaki Katayama, Mark D Wilkinson, Kiyoko F Aoki-Kinoshita, Shuichi Kawashima, Yasunori Yamamoto, Atsuko Yamaguchi, Shinobu Okamoto, Shin Kawano, Jin-Dong Kim, Yue Wang, Hongyan Wu, Yoshinobu Kano, Hiromasa Ono, Hidemasa Bono, Simon Kocbek, Jan Aerts, Yukie Akune, Erick Antezana, Kazuharu Arakawa, Bruno Aranda, Joachim Baran, Jerven Bolleman, Raoul JP Bonnal, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Matthew P Campbell, Yi-an Chen, Hirokazu Chiba, Peter JA Cock, Kevin B Cohen, Alexandru Constantin, Geraint Duck, Michel Dumontier, Takatomo Fujisawa, Toyofumi Fujiwara, Naohisa Goto, Robert Hoehndorf, Yoshinobu Igarashi, Hidetoshi Itaya, Maori Ito, Wataru Iwasaki, Matús Kalas, Takeo Katoda, Taehong Kim, Anna Kokubu, Yusuke Komiyama, Masaaki Kotera, Camille Laibe, Hilmar Lapp, Thomas Lütteke, M Scott Marshall, Takaaki Mori, Hiroshi Mori, Mizuki Morita, Katsuhiko Murakami, Mitsuteru Nakao, Hisashi Narimatsu, Hiroyo Nishide, Yosuke Nishimura, Johan Nystrom-Persson, Soichi Ogishima, Yasunobu Okamura, Shujiro Okuda, Kazuki Oshita, Nicki H Packer, Pjotr Prins, Rene Ranzinger, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna Sansone, Hiromichi Sawaki, Sung-Ho Shin, Andrea Splendiani, Francesco Strozzi, Shu Tadaka, Philip Toukach, Ikuo Uchiyama, Masahito Umezaki, Rutger Vos, Patricia L Whetzel, Issaku Yamada, Chisato Yamasaki, Riu Yamashita, William S York, Christian M Zmasek, Shoko Kawamoto, and Toshihisa Takagi.
BioHackathon series in 2011 and 2012: penetration of ontology and linked data in life science domains.
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 5, 5. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-5-5 / PubMed: 24495517
17.
Ching-chia Yang and Wataru Iwasaki.
MetaMetaDB: A database and analytic system for investigating microbial habitability.
PLOS ONE, 9, e87126. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087126 / PubMed: 24475242
MetaMetaDB Website
16.
Tsukasa Fukunaga, Haruka Ozaki, Goro Terai, Kiyoshi Asai, Wataru Iwasaki, and Hisanori Kiryu
CapR: revealing structural specificities of RNA-binding protein target recognition using CLIP-seq data.
Genome Biology, 15, R16. (2014)
- DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-1-r16 / PubMed: 24447569
- Introductory Article: Shape over sequence in the RBPome, Biome (23 Jan, 2014).
Selected as the cover of the 2014 RBPome special issue of Genome Biology.
15. (Commentary)
Teresa Szczepinska, Wataru Iwasaki, and Thomas Abeel.
The spirit of competition: To win or not to win.
PLOS Computational Biology, 9, e1003413. (2013)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003413 / PubMed: 24385894
14.
Seishiro Aoki, Motomi Ito, and Wataru Iwasaki.
From beta- to alpha-proteobacteria: the origin and evolution of rhizobial nodulation genes nodIJ.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30, 2494-2508. (2013)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst153 / PubMed: 24030554
13.
Wataru Iwasaki, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Ryota Isagozawa, Koichiro Yamada, Yasunobu Maeda, Takashi P. Satoh, Tetsuya Sado, Kohji Mabuchi, Hirohiko Takeshima, Masaki Miya, and Mutsumi Nishida.
MitoFish and MitoAnnotator: A mitochondrial genome database of fish with an accurate and automatic annotation pipeline.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30, 2531-2540. (2013)
- DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst141 / PubMed: 23955518
MitoFish and MitoAnnotator Website
Selected as the cover of the November 2013 issue of Mol Biol Evol.
- Selected as MBE Citation Classics (representing the top <1% citations) in MBE Citation Classics (2018 Edition), Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35, 1–2. (2018)
- Selected as a highly-cited paper in Molecular Biology & Genetics (top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science) by Clarivate.
12.
Masaki Miya, Matt Friedman, Takashi P. Satoh, Hirohiko Takeshima, Tetsuya Sado, Wataru Iwasaki, Yusuke Yamanoue, Masanori Nakatani, Kohji Mabuchi, Jun G. Inoue, Jan Yde Poulsen, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Yukuto Sato, and Mutsumi Nishida.
Evolutionary origin of the Scombridae (tunas and mackerels): Members of a paleogene adaptive radiation with 14 other pelagic fish families.
PLOS ONE, 8, e73535. (2013)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073535 / PubMed: 24023883
Featured in Asahi Shimbun newspaper (Nov 4, 2013).
10.
Thanet Praneenararat*, Toshihisa Takagi, and Wataru Iwasaki*.
Integration of interactive, multi-scale network navigation approach with Cytoscape for functional genomics in the big data era.
BMC Genomics, 13(Suppl 7), S24. (2012)
- DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-S7-S24 / PubMed: 23281970
NaviClusterCS Website
- Accepted for a conference paper presentation at 11th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCOB2012).
7.
Thanet Praneenararat*, Toshihisa Takagi, and Wataru Iwasaki*.
Interactive, multi-scale navigation of large and complicated biological networks.
Bioinformatics, 27, 1121-1127. (2011)
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr083 / PubMed: 21349867
NaviCluster Website
6.
Michiaki Hamada, Hisanori Kiryu, Wataru Iwasaki, and Kiyoshi Asai.
Generalized centroid estimators in bioinformatics.
PLOS ONE, 6, e16450. (2011)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016450 / PubMed: 21365017
5.
Wataru Iwasaki*, Yasunori Yamamoto*, and Toshihisa Takagi.
TogoDoc Server/Client System: Smart recommendation and efficient management of life science literature.
PLOS ONE, 5, e15305. (2010)
4.
Wataru Iwasaki and Toshihisa Takagi.
An intuitive, informative, and most balanced representation of phylogenetic topologies.
Systematic Biology, 59, 584-593. (2010)
- DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq044 / PubMed: 20817714
Wheel Tree Website
- Recommended at Faculty of 1000.
3.
Wataru Iwasaki and Toshihisa Takagi.
Rapid pathway evolution facilitated by horizontal gene transfers across prokaryotic lineages.
PLOS Genetics, 5, e1000402. (2009)
- DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000402 / PubMed: 19266023
- Recommended at Faculty of 1000
2.
Wataru Iwasaki and Toshihisa Takagi.
Reconstruction of highly heterogeneous gene-content evolution across the three domains of life.
Bioinformatics, 23, i230-i239. (2007)
- DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm165 / PubMed: 17646301
- Accepted for a conference paper presentation at 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB2007). Acceptance rate = 15.8%.
1.
Wataru Iwasaki, Shun-ichi Sekine, Chizu Kuroishi, Seiki Kuramitsu, Mikako Shirouzu, and Shigeyuki Yokoyama.
Structural basis of the water-assisted asparagine recognition by asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 360, 329-342. (2006)
- DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.04.068 / PubMed: 16753178
Publications in Japanese
107. (Book chapter, review in Japanese)
西村祐貴,綿野桂人,岩崎渉.
機械学習によるマイクロバイオームと機能未知遺伝子の解析 〜メタゲノム・対偶遺伝学・近傍遺伝子解析
清水秀幸編『実験医学別冊 Pythonで実践 生命科学データの機械学習』,387-422. (2023)
99. (Review in Japanese)
山内駿,岩崎渉.
de novo遺伝子誕生学〜「遺伝子とは何か?」を改めて問う鍵として
実験医学,40,1835-1841.(2022)
93. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉.
機能未知遺伝子の機能を推測するバイオインフォマティクス:AlphaFoldから遺伝子誕生学へ
日本微生物生態学会誌,37,3-13.(2022)
82. (Book chapter, review in Japanese)
岩崎渉.
環境DNA解析とバイオインフォマティクス:いま必要なこと、今後に向けて考えるべきこと
一般社団法人環境DNA学会企画、土居秀幸・近藤倫生編『環境DNA―生態系の真の姿を読み解く―』,225-229. (2021)
50. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉.
バイオインフォマティクスの全体像
実験医学,35,713-719.(2017)
45. (Book chapter, review in Japanese)
岩崎渉.
環境DNA解析
服部正平編『NGSアプリケーション 今すぐ始める! メタゲノム解析 実験プロトコール』,170-174. (2016)
44. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉.
遺伝子発現ネットワークとバイオインフォマティクス
医学のあゆみ,259,865-869.(2016)
34. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉,佐藤行人,源利文,山中裕樹,荒木仁志,宮正樹.
環境DNA解析のインパクト
実験医学,34,103-107.(2016)
33. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎由香,岩崎渉.
ncRNAのバイオインフォマティクス解析
実験医学,33,3379-3384.(2015)
28. (Review in Japanese)
福永津嵩,岩崎渉.
Computational Ethology:バイオインフォマティクスと動物行動学の融合
領域融合レビュー,4,e003.(2015)
26. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉,尾崎遼.
NGSデータ解析
実験医学,32,3197-3202.(2014)
11. (Review in Japanese)
尾崎遼,岩崎渉.
ENCODEプロジェクトで明らかになったこと
細胞工学,32,101-106.(2013)
9. (Review in Japanese)
佐藤行人,八谷剛史,岩崎渉.
水圏生物学における次世代シーケンサー活用の現状と応用可能性への展望
水産育種, 41,17-32.(2012)
- (English abstract available)
- Yukuto Sato, Tsuyoshi Hachiya, and Wataru Iwasaki.
- Next-generation sequencing in aquatic biology: Current status and future directions.
- Fish Genetics and Breeding Science, 41, 17-32. (2012)
8. (Review in Japanese)
岩崎渉,山本泰智,高木利久.
文献管理・文献推薦
実験医学,29,2556-2562.(2011)