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Yoshitomo Kikuchi
Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Publications - 96
Citations - 6850
Yoshitomo Kikuchi is an academic researcher from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Burkholderia & Symbiotic bacteria. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 93 publications receiving 5655 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoshitomo Kikuchi include University of Connecticut & Tohoku University.
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Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist
TL;DR: Results indicate that bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualism can evolve from facultative and prevalent microbial associates like Wolbachia, highlighting a previously unknown aspect of the parasitism-mutualism evolutionary continuum.
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Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance
Yoshitomo Kikuchi,Masahito Hayatsu,Takahiro Hosokawa,Atsushi Nagayama,Kanako Tago,Takema Fukatsu +5 more
TL;DR: The finding suggests the possibility that the symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance may develop even in the absence of pest insects, quickly establish within a single insect generation, and potentially move around horizontally between different pest insects and other organisms.
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Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: a stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generation.
TL;DR: The stinkbug-Burkholderia relationship may be regarded as an insect analogue of the well-known symbioses between plants and soil-associated microbes, such as legume-Rhizobium and alder-Frankia relationships, and the evolutionary relevance of the mutualistic but promiscuous insect-microbe association is discussed.
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Strict Host-Symbiont Cospeciation and Reductive Genome Evolution in Insect Gut Bacteria
Takahiro Hosokawa,Yoshitomo Kikuchi,Yoshitomo Kikuchi,Naruo Nikoh,Masakazu Shimada,Takema Fukatsu +5 more
TL;DR: The plataspid stinkbugs, wherein the host-symbiont associations can be easily manipulated, provide a novel system that enables experimental approaches to previously untouched aspects of the insect-microbe mutualism.
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Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect
TL;DR: It is reported that pest status of an insect is principally determined by symbiont genotype rather than by insect genotype, which sheds new light on the evolutionary origin of insect pests, potentially leading to novel approaches to pest control and management.