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  1. Regulation and remodeling of microbial symbiosis in insect metamorphosis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Takema Fukatsu

  2. Host’s guardian protein counters degenerative symbiont evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Takema Fukatsu

  3. Dimorphic Sessile Apterae of the Aphid Neothoracaphis glaucae (Hemiptera) on the Evergreen Oak Quercus glauca

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, November 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Takema Fukatsu

  4. Genomic Insight into Symbiosis-Induced Insect Color Change by a Facultative Bacterial Endosymbiont, “CandidatusRickettsiella viridis”

    Article • mBio, June 2018, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  5. A Novel, Extremely Elongated, and Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont Supports Cuticle Formation of a Grain Pest Beetle

    Article • mBio, September 2017, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  6. Collapse of Insect Gut Symbiosis under Simulated Climate Change

    Article • mBio, October 2016, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  7. Riboflavin Provisioning Underlies Wolbachia's Fitness Contribution to Its Insect Host

    Article • mBio, November 2015, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  8. Infection Density Dynamics of the Citrus Greening Bacterium “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” in Field Populations of the Psyllid Diaphorina citri and Its Relevance to the Efficiency of Pathogen Transmission to Citrus Plants

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2015, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  9. Female-Specific Specialization of a Posterior End Region of the Midgut Symbiotic Organ in Plautia splendens and Allied Stinkbugs

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2015, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  10. Bacterial Symbionts of a Devastating Coffee Plant Pest, the Stinkbug Antestiopsis thunbergii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2014, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  11. Phenotypic Effect of “Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis,” a Facultative Symbiont of the Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), and Its Interaction with a Coexisting Symbiont

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  12. Specific Midgut Region Controlling the Symbiont Population in an Insect-Microbe Gut Symbiotic Association

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  13. Diversity of Bacterial Endosymbionts Associated with Macrosteles Leafhoppers Vectoring Phytopathogenic Phytoplasmas

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2013, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  14. Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Gene uppP Is Required for Burkholderia Colonization of the Stinkbug Gut

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, June 2013, ASM Journals

    Takema Fukatsu

  15. Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Takema Fukatsu