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Gaku Tokuda

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Active since

1997

Affiliations

University of the Ryukyus(Current)

Institute of Agrobiological Sciences

The University of Sydney

The University of Tokyo

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Gaku Tokuda is an author at University of the Ryukyus specializing in biology, microbiology, and medicine.

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1997–2024

47

Publications

47

Evidence from multiple gene sequences indicates that termites evolved from wood-feeding cockroaches

Nathan Lo, Gaku Tokuda, Hirofumi Watanabe et al. · Current Biology · 2000 · 344 citations · Full text

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Dual cellulose-digesting system of the wood-feeding termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki

Keisuke Nakashima, Hirofumi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Saitoh et al. · Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2002 · 237 citations

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Hidden cellulases in termites: revision of an old hypothesis

Gaku Tokuda, Hirofumi Watanabe · Biology Letters · 2007 · 180 citations · Full text

Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites

Gaku Tokuda, Aram Mikaelyan, Chiho Fukui et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 147 citations · Full text

Metazoan cellulase genes from termites: intron/exon structures and sites of expression

Gaku Tokuda, Nathan Lo, Hirofumi Watanabe et al. · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression · 1999 · 146 citations

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