Detailed Information

Research Field/Keywords for Research Field

• Phycology, Algal Life Science, Algal Physiology and Ecology, Algal genome science

Education

• 2004/03, Graduated
• 2006/03, Doctor Course, Completed
• 2010/03, Doctor Course, Completed

Employment Experience

• 2010/04 - 2011/03
• 2011/04 - 2012/03
• 2012/04 - 2014/12 Research Fellow
• 2015/01 - 2018/03 Lecturer, Institute of Lowland Technology, Institute of Lowland Technology, Saga University

Field of Specialization

• Aquatic bioproduction science, Aquatic life science, Ecology/Environment, Applied microbiology

Awards

• 2013年度日本藻類学会論文賞 （2014/03）
• 2013年度日本プランクトン学会奨励賞 （2013/03）
• JSP Student Poster Award in The 9th International Phycological Congress （2009/08）

Research Topics and Results

• Characterization and organelle genome sequencing of Pyropia species from Myanmar. 2023/09
• Species-specific monitoring of Skeletonema blooms in the coastal waters of Ariake Sound, Japan. 2023/01
• Primordial Capsid and Spooled ssDNA Genome Structures Unravel Ancestral Events of Eukaryotic Viruses 2022/07
• Primordial Capsid and Spooled ssDNA Genome Structures Unravel Ancestral Events of Eukaryotic Viruses. 2022/07
• Transcriptional Responses of the Marine Planktonic Diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus to Nitrogen- and Phosphorus-deficient States. 2022/07
• Weekly observations of estuarine microbial assemblages during summer in the inner part of Ariake Bay, Japan: Bacterial water-sediment coupling in turbid shallow waters. 2022/05
• Isolation of sake yeast strains from Ariake Sea tidal flats and evaluation of their brewing characteristics. 2022/04
• 乾海苔が含有する光合成色素の新定量法開発. 2022/04
• Detection and characterization of RNA viruses in red macroalgae (Bangiaceae) and their food product (nori sheets). 2022/04
• ノリとの共存関係を展開するバクテリア群集とウイルス． 2022/03
• 登録済みゲノム配列データの再解析からわかった日本と中国のスサビノリとアサクサノリの遺伝的分化． 2022/03
• 高時空間解像度でのクロロフィル蛍光測定による有明海珪藻赤潮の発生予測． 2022/03
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusに関連するサテライトウイルス様DNA因子の探索． 2022/03
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusのゲノム中に見られた感染性ウイルス遺伝子の挿入履歴． 2022/03
• Comparative Genomic Analysis of Organellar Genomes of Pyropia species collected from Southwest Coast of Myanmar． 2022/03
• 食用大型紅藻ウシケノリ科に内在しているRNA virusの探索． 2022/03
• 夏季、有明海の水柱および底質表層における細菌叢の短期動態． 2022/03
• 貧酸素継続期間の違いが有明海底生微生物組成と物質循環に与える影響． 2022/03
• 海苔の原料であるスサビノリに定着している未培養微生物群集のメタゲノム解析． 2022/03
• 光質が異なるLED照射下におけるスサビノリ殻胞子嚢の成熟と殻胞子放出. 2022/01
• Development of Monascus purpureus monacolin K-hyperproducing mutant strains by synchrotron light irradiation and their comparative genome analysis. 2022/01
• 底層水の貧酸素化期間が異なると微生物群集と物質循環も移り変わりながら変化する． 2021/11
• 佐賀大学オリジナル清酒「悠々知酔」に関わる微生物開発について 2021/11
• Genomic diversity of 39 samples of Pyropia species grown in Japan. 2021/06
• 海苔の光合成色素量と色調評価に向けた新色素定量法の開発． 2021/05
• 高頻度クロロフィル可変蛍光モニタリングによる有明海珪藻赤潮の発生予測． 2021/05
• Breeding sake yeast and identification of mutation patterns by synchrotron light irradiation 2021/04
• Genetic diversity and population structure of razor clam Sinonovacula constricta in Ariake Bay, Japan, revealed using RAD-Seq SNP markers 2021/03
• Chaetoceros属珪藻に対するRNAウイルスの感染特性． 2021/03
• Previously unknown ssDNA molecules co-occurring with CdebDNAV in the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros debilis 2020/08
• Viral RNA Genomes Identified from Marine Macroalgae and a Diatom 2020/06
• Novel Protocol for Estimating Viruses Specifically Infecting the Marine Planktonic Diatoms, Diversity. 2020/06
• 海洋珪藻に感染するウイルスの分類と生理生態学研究の現状. 2020/04
• Capsid structure of a marine algae virus of the order Picornavirales. 2020/01
• Preliminary analysis of diatom-infecting viruses in Ariake Sound, Japan 2019/07
• 珪藻とウィルスの対話〜珪藻はウイルスと共存しているのか？ 2019/05
• Novel marine diatom ssRNA virus NitRevRNAV infecting Nitzschia reversa. 2019/03
• Does suspended matter drained from the Isahaya freshwater reservoir cause organic enrichment in the northern Ariake Bay? 2018/07
• Effects of temperature and salinity on virus-mediated diatom cell death 2017/08
• Dynamics of Chaetoceros tenuissimus and its infectious viruses for five years in Hiroshima Bay 2017/08
• Dynamics of Chaetoceros tenuissimus and its infectious viruses for five years in Hiroshima Bay 2017/07
• Optimum environmental conditions for virus mediated diatom cell lysis are highly diverse among virus species and isolates 2017/07
• Occurrence of the planktonic bloom-forming marine diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier and its infectious viruses in western Japan. 2017/07
• Effects of temperature and salinity on diatom cell lysis by DNA and RNA viruses. 2017/04
• Bothrosome Formation in Schizochytrium aggregatum (Labyrinthulomycetes, Stramenopiles) during Zoospore Settlement. 2016/12
• Phosphotriesterase activity in marine bacteria (Phaeobacter, Ruegeria, and Thalassospira). 2016/08
• Observation of zoospore settlement focusing on the development of actin filaments (Labyrinthulea, Stramenopiles). 2016/06
• Rapid quantification of viable cells of the planktonic diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus and associated RNA viruses in culture. 2016/01
• Intraspecies host specificity of DNA/RNA viruses that infect marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus. 2015/07
• 珪藻とウイルスの生理・生態学:珪藻はウイルスと共存する？ 2015/04
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusとDNA/RNAウイルスの感染特異性 2015/03
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusとそれに感染するウイルスの鬩ぎ合いと共生関係 2015
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusに感染するDNA/RNAウイルスの感染特異性と感染を支配する要因 2015
• RNA sequencing revealed numerous polyketide synthase gene in the harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi. 2015
• Discovery of Two Novel Viruses Expands the Diversity of Single-Stranded DNA and Single-Stranded RNA Viruses Infecting a Cosmopolitan Marine Diatom 2015
• Marine diatom viruses and their hosts: Resistance mechanisms and population dynamics 2015
• 珪藻ウイルスの生態学 〜ガラスの鎧を持つ生物に感染するウイルス〜 2015
• 海洋真核性微細藻類ウイルスの現状と生態学的研究 2015
• Coculture with marine bacteria confers resistance to complete viral lysis of diatom cultures 2014
• A unique method for culturing diatoms on agar plates 2013
• Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded DNA virus infecting the marine diatom Chaetoceros sp. strain SS628-11 isolated from western Japan 2013
• Ultrastructural observation of natural field phytoplankton cells by using rapid freezing and freeze substitution 2012
• Disappearance of male mitochondrial DNA after the four-cell stage in sporophytes of the isogamous brown alga Scytosiphon lomentaria (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae) 2010
• Sperm mitochondrial DNA elimination in the zygote of the oogamous brown alga Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) 2010

Books

• Marine protist virus (Chapter 20);　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Marine protest, in press
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura, Keizo Nagasaki
  

Original Articles

• Characterization and organelle genome sequencing of Pyropia species from Myanmar.;　2023/09
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Sci Rep, 13, 15677
  AUTHOR;　Myat Htoo San, Kawamura Y, Kimura K, Eranga Pawani Witharana, Shimogiri T, San San Aye, Thu Thu Min, Aung C, Moe Moe Khaing, Nagano Y
  
• Species-specific monitoring of Skeletonema blooms in the coastal waters of Ariake Sound, Japan.;　2023/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　MEPS (Marine Ecology Progress Series), 703, 31-46
  AUTHOR;　Yoshida K, Ota H, Iwanaga T, Yoshitake A, Mine T, Omura M, Kimura K
  
• Primordial Capsid and Spooled ssDNA Genome Structures Unravel Ancestral Events of Eukaryotic Viruses;　2022/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　mBio, e00156-22
  AUTHOR;　Anna Munke, Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru, Han Wang, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Seiya Mito, Yuki Hongo, Kenta Okamoto
  
• Primordial Capsid and Spooled ssDNA Genome Structures Unravel Ancestral Events of Eukaryotic Viruses.;　2022/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　mBio, 13, 4, e00156-22
  AUTHOR;　Munke A, Kimura K, Tomaru Y, Wang H, Yoshida K, Mito S, Hongo Y, Okamoto K
  
• Transcriptional Responses of the Marine Planktonic Diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus to Nitrogen- and Phosphorus-deficient States.;　2022/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly, 56, 295-301
  AUTHOR;　Yamaguchi H, Inoue M, Tanimoto Y, Sumida N, Adachi M, Kimura K, Tomaru Y
  
• Weekly observations of estuarine microbial assemblages during summer in the inner part of Ariake Bay, Japan: Bacterial water-sediment coupling in turbid shallow waters.;　2022/05
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Microbes and Environments, in press
  AUTHOR;　Orita R, Yoshida K, Terazono H, Nagano Y, Goto M, Kimura K*, Kobayashi G*
  
• Isolation of sake yeast strains from Ariake Sea tidal flats and evaluation of their brewing characteristics.;　2022/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology, in press
  AUTHOR;　Baba S, Sawada, K Orita R, Kimura K, Goto M, Kobayashi G
  
• 乾海苔が含有する光合成色素の新定量法開発.;　2022/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, in press
  AUTHOR;　
  
• Detection and characterization of RNA viruses in red macroalgae (Bangiaceae) and their food product (nori sheets).;　2022/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Microbes and Environments, in press
  AUTHOR;　Mizutani Y, Chiba Y, Urayama S, Tomaru Y, Hagiwara D, Kimura K*
  
• 光質が異なるLED照射下におけるスサビノリ殻胞子嚢の成熟と殻胞子放出.;　2022/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, 70, 1, in press
  AUTHOR;　
  
• Development of Monascus purpureus monacolin K-hyperproducing mutant strains by synchrotron light irradiation and their comparative genome analysis.;　2022/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, 133, 4, 362-368
  AUTHOR;　Ketkaeo S, Nagano Y, Baba S, Kimura K, Futagami T, Sanpamongkolchai W, Kobayashi G, Goto M
  
• Genomic diversity of 39 samples of Pyropia species grown in Japan.;　2021/06
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　PloS one, 16, 6, e0252207
  AUTHOR;　Nagano Y, Kimura K, Kobayashi G, Kawamura Y
  
• Breeding sake yeast and identification of mutation patterns by synchrotron light irradiation;　2021/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering, in press
  AUTHOR;　Shuichiro Baba S, Hamasaki T, Sawada K, Orita R, Nagano Y, Kimura K, Goto M, Kobayashi G
  
• Genetic diversity and population structure of razor clam Sinonovacula constricta in Ariake Bay, Japan, revealed using RAD-Seq SNP markers;　2021/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Scientific Reports, 11, Article number: 7761.
  AUTHOR;　Orita R, Nagano Y, Kawamura Y, Kimura K, Kobayashi G
  
• Previously unknown ssDNA molecules co-occurring with CdebDNAV in the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros debilis;　2020/08
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Phycol Res.
  AUTHOR;　Tomaru Y, Toyoda K, Kimura K
  
• Viral RNA Genomes Identified from Marine Macroalgae and a Diatom;　2020/06
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Microbes and Environments, 35, 3
  AUTHOR;　Y. Chiba, Y. Tomaru, H. Shimabukuro, K. Kimura, M. Hirai, Y. Takaki, D. Hagiwara, T. Nunoura, S. Urayama
  
• Novel Protocol for Estimating Viruses Specifically Infecting the Marine Planktonic Diatoms, Diversity.;　2020/06
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Diversity., 12, 6, 225
  AUTHOR;　Tomaru Y, Kimura K,
  
• Capsid structure of a marine algae virus of the order Picornavirales.;　2020/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of Virology
  AUTHOR;　Anna Munke, Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru, Kenta Okamoto
  
• Preliminary analysis of diatom-infecting viruses in Ariake Sound, Japan;　2019/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly, 53, 3, 223-228
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Tadashi Matsubara, Takayuki Mine, Tomoyuki Shikata, Keizo Nagasaki, Kei Kimura, Haruo Yamaguchi
  
• Novel marine diatom ssRNA virus NitRevRNAV infecting Nitzschia reversa.;　2019/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Plant Ecology and Evolution, 152, 178-187
  AUTHOR;　28. Kensuke Toyoda, Kei Kimura, Keigo Osada, David M. Williams, Tomoko Adachi, Katsumasa Yamada and Yuji Tomaru
  
• Does suspended matter drained from the Isahaya freshwater reservoir cause organic enrichment in the northern Ariake Bay?;　2018/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Journal of Oceanography, in press
  AUTHOR;　Kenji Yoshino, Katsumasa Yamada, Kei Kimura
  
• Occurrence of the planktonic bloom-forming marine diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier and its infectious viruses in western Japan.;　2017/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Hydrobiologia, 805, 221-230
  AUTHOR;　Tomaru Yuji, Toyoda Kenske, Kimura Kei
  
• Effects of temperature and salinity on diatom cell lysis by DNA and RNA viruses.;　2017/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Aquat Microb Ecol., 79, 79-83
  AUTHOR;　Kimura K, Tomaru Y
  
• Bothrosome Formation in Schizochytrium aggregatum (Labyrinthulomycetes, Stramenopiles) during Zoospore Settlement.;　2016/12
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Protist, 168, 206-219
  AUTHOR;　Iwata I, Kimura K, Tomaru Y, Motomura T, Koike K, Koike K, Honda D
  
• Phosphotriesterase activity in marine bacteria (Phaeobacter, Ruegeria, and Thalassospira).;　2016/08
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Int Biodeterior Biodegradation., 115, 186-191
  AUTHOR;　Yamaguchi H, Arisaka H, Seki M, Adachi M, Kimura K, Tomaru Y
  
• Rapid quantification of viable cells of the planktonic diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus and associated RNA viruses in culture.;　2016/01
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Plankton Benthos Res., 11, 9-16
  AUTHOR;　Tomaru Y, Kimura K
  
• RNA sequencing revealed numerous polyketide synthase gene in the harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi.;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, 10, e0142731
  AUTHOR;　Kimura K, Okuda S, Nakayama K, Shikata T, Takahashi F, Yamaguchi H, Skamoto S, Yamaguchi M, Tomaru Y
  
• Discovery of Two Novel Viruses Expands the Diversity of Single-Stranded DNA and Single-Stranded RNA Viruses Infecting a Cosmopolitan Marine Diatom;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Appl Environ Microbiol, 81, 1120-1131
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• Coculture with marine bacteria confers resistance to complete viral lysis of diatom cultures;　2014
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Aquat Microb Ecol, 73, 69-80
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• Temperature alters algicidal activity of DNA and RNA viruses infecting Chaetoceros tenuissimus Meunier;　2014
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Aquat Microb Ecol, 73, 171-183
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura, Haruo Yamaguchi
  
• Establishment of a bacterial expression system and immunoassay platform for the major capsid protein of HcRNAV, a dinoflagellate-infecting RNA virus;　2013
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Microbes Environ, 27, 483-489
  AUTHOR;　Kei Wada, Kei Kimura, Akifumi Hasegawa, Keiichi Fukuyama, Keizo Nagasaki
  
• Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded RNA virus that infects the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros sp. (SS08-C03);　2013
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Phycol Res, 61, 27-36
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kensuke Toyoda, Kei Kimura, Yoshitake Takao, Sakurada Kiyonari, Natuko Nakayama, Keizo Nagasaki
  
• A unique method for culturing diatoms on agar plates;　2013
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Plankton Benthos Res, 8, 1-3
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded DNA virus infecting the marine diatom Chaetoceros sp. strain SS628-11 isolated from western Japan;　2013
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　PloS one, 8, e82013
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• New single-stranded DNA virus with a unique genomic structure that infects marine diatom Chaetoceros setoensis;　2013
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Scientific Reports, 3, 3337
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kensuke Toyoda, Hidekazu Suzuki, Tamotsu Nagumo, Kei Kimura, Yoshitake Takao
  
• Isolation and characterization of a single-stranded DNA virus infecting the marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros sp. (TG07-C28);　2012
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Plankton Benthos Res, 7, 20-28
  AUTHOR;　Kensuke Toyoda, Kei Kimura, Naotsugu Hata, Natsuko Nakayama, Keizo Nagasaki, Yuji Tomaru
  
• First evidence for the existence of pennate diatom viruses;　2012
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　ISME J, 6, 1445-1448
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kensuke Toyoda, Kei Kimura, Naotsugu Hata, Mikihide Yoshida, Keizo Nagasaki
  
• Ultrastructural observation of natural field phytoplankton cells by using rapid freezing and freeze substitution;　2012
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Plankton Benthos Res, 7, 126-134
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru, Keizo Nagasaki
  
• Disappearance of male mitochondrial DNA after the four-cell stage in sporophytes of the isogamous brown alga Scytosiphon lomentaria (Scytosiphonaceae, Phaeophyceae);　2010
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　J Phycol, 46, 143-152
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Chikako Nagasato, Kazuhiro Kogame, Taizo Motomura
  
• Cytoplasmic inheritance of organelles in brown algae;　2010
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　J Plant Res, 123, 185-192
  AUTHOR;　Taizo Motomura, Chikako Nagasato, Kei Kimura
  
• The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in the brown algae;　2010
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Nature, 465, 617-621
  AUTHOR;　J, Mark Cock,,, 73 peoples ,,,Kei Kimura et. al
  
• Sperm mitochondrial DNA elimination in the zygote of the oogamous brown alga Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae);　2010
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Cytologia, 75, 353-361
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Chikako Nagasato, Shinya Uwai, Taizo Motomura
  
• Homologs of the Sexually Induced Gene 1 (sig1) Product constitute the Stramenopile Mastigonemes;　2007
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Protist, 158, 77-88
  AUTHOR;　Daiske Honda, Takanori Shono, Kei Kimura, Satoshi Fujita, Mineo Iseki, Yumiko Makino, Akio Murakami
  

General Lectures

• 登録済みゲノム配列データの再解析からわかった日本と中国のスサビノリとアサクサノリの遺伝的分化．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 高時空間解像度でのクロロフィル蛍光測定による有明海珪藻赤潮の発生予測．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusに関連するサテライトウイルス様DNA因子の探索．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusのゲノム中に見られた感染性ウイルス遺伝子の挿入履歴．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• Comparative Genomic Analysis of Organellar Genomes of Pyropia species collected from Southwest Coast of Myanmar．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　Myat Htoo San・Yukio Nagano・Yoshio Kawamura・Kei Kimura・San San Aye・Khin Thu Min・Cherry Aung・Moe Moe Khaing
  
• 食用大型紅藻ウシケノリ科に内在しているRNA virusの探索．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 夏季、有明海の水柱および底質表層における細菌叢の短期動態．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 貧酸素継続期間の違いが有明海底生微生物組成と物質循環に与える影響．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 海苔の原料であるスサビノリに定着している未培養微生物群集のメタゲノム解析．;　2022/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 底層水の貧酸素化期間が異なると微生物群集と物質循環も移り変わりながら変化する．;　2021/11
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 佐賀大学オリジナル清酒「悠々知酔」に関わる微生物開発について;　2021/11
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 海苔の光合成色素量と色調評価に向けた新色素定量法の開発．;　2021/05
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 高頻度クロロフィル可変蛍光モニタリングによる有明海珪藻赤潮の発生予測．;　2021/05
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• Chaetoceros属珪藻に対するRNAウイルスの感染特性．;　2021/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• Effects of temperature and salinity on virus-mediated diatom cell death;　2017/08
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　The 15th International Congress of Protistology
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura
  
• Dynamics of Chaetoceros tenuissimus and its infectious viruses for five years in Hiroshima Bay;　2017/08
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　The 15th International Congress of Protistology
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• Dynamics of Chaetoceros tenuissimus and its infectious viruses for five years in Hiroshima Bay;　2017/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Molecular Life of Diatoms 2017
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• Optimum environmental conditions for virus mediated diatom cell lysis are highly diverse among virus species and isolates;　2017/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Molecular Life of Diatoms 2017
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura
  
• Observation of zoospore settlement focusing on the development of actin filaments (Labyrinthulea, Stramenopiles).;　2016/06
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　Izumi Iwata , Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru, Taizo Motomura, Kanae Koike, Kazuhiro Koike
  
• Basic characteristic of marine diatom viruses and their ecology.;　2015/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Molecular Life of Diatoms 2015
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura
  
• Intraspecies host specificity of DNA/RNA viruses that infect marine planktonic diatom Chaetoceros tenuissimus.;　2015/07
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Molecular Life of Diatoms 2015
  AUTHOR;　Kei Kimura, Yuji Tomaru
  
• 珪藻とウイルスの生理・生態学:珪藻はウイルスと共存する？;　2015/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻個体群のウイルス感受性は増殖フェーズによって変化するか？;　2015/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻個体群はウイルス存在下でも直ちに崩壊しない;　2015/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusとDNA/RNAウイルスの感染特異性;　2015/03
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  
• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusに感染するDNA/RNAウイルスの感染特異性と感染を支配する要因;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　
  AUTHOR;　
  

Review Articles

• 海洋珪藻に感染するウイルスの分類と生理生態学研究の現状.;　2020/04
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　光合成研究
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• Marine diatom viruses and their hosts: Resistance mechanisms and population dynamics;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　Perspective in Phycology, in press
  AUTHOR;　Yuji Tomaru, Kei Kimura, Kensuke Toyoda
  
• 珪藻ウイルスの生態学 〜ガラスの鎧を持つ生物に感染するウイルス〜;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, 69, 4, 284-289
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• 海洋真核性微細藻類ウイルスの現状と生態学的研究;　2015
  ANNOUNCEMENT INFO.;　, in press
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Invited Lecture, Special Lecture

• ノリとの共存関係を展開するバクテリア群集とウイルス．;　2022/03
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• 珪藻とウィルスの対話〜珪藻はウイルスと共存しているのか？;　2019/05
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• 珪藻Chaetoceros tenuissimusとそれに感染するウイルスの鬩ぎ合いと共生関係;　2015
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