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  1. Discovery of Two Novel Viruses Expands the Diversity of Single-Stranded DNA and Single-Stranded RNA Viruses Infecting a Cosmopolitan Marine Diatom

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

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  2. Isolation and Characterization of a Single-Stranded DNA Virus Infecting the Marine Diatom Chaetoceros sp. Strain SS628-11 Isolated from Western JAPAN

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2013, PLOS

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  3. New single-stranded DNA virus with a unique genomic structure that infects marine diatom Chaetoceros setoensis

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  4. A unique method for culturing diatoms on agar plates

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2013, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  5. Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded RNA virus that infects the marine planktonic diatomChaetocerossp. (SS08-C03)

    Article • Phycological Research, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  6. First evidence for the existence of pennate diatom viruses

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  7. Ultrastructural observation of natural field phytoplankton cells by using rapid freezing and freeze substitution

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2012, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  8. Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded DNA virus infecting the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros sp. (strain TG07-C28)

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2012, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  9. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a marine diatom-infecting single-stranded RNA virus

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, October 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  10. Application of real-time PCR assay for detection and quantification of bloom-forming diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2010, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  11. Virus resistance in the toxic bloom-forming dinoflagellateHeterocapsa circularisquamato single-stranded RNA virus infection

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, Wiley

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  12. Co-occurrence of DNA- and RNA-viruses infecting the bloom-forming dinoflagellate, Heterocapsa circularisquama, on the Japan coast

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2009, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  13. Isolation and characterization of a novel virus infecting Teleaulax amphioxeia (Cryptophyceae)

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2009, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  14. Ecology, physiology and genetics of a phycodnavirus infecting the noxious bloom-forming raphidophyteHeterosigma akashiwo

    Article • Fisheries Science, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  15. Ecological dynamics of the bivalve-killing dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama and its infectious viruses in different locations of western Japan

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, June 2007, Wiley

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  16. Flow cytometric detection and enumeration of DNA and RNA viruses infecting marine eukaryotic microalgae

    Article • Journal of Oceanography, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  17. Fluorescence in situ hybridization using 18S rRNA-targeted probe for specific detection of thraustochytrids (Labyrinthulomycetes)

    Article • Plankton and Benthos Research, January 2007, The Plankton Society of Japan/The Japanese Association of Benthology

    Dr Yuji Tomaru

  18. An improved method for collecting heterotrophic microorganisms living on pebbles in streams

    Article • Limnology, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yuji Tomaru