Hirokazu Kuwahara

Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

Takuma Hashimoto, Daiki D. Horikawa, Yuki Saito et al. · Nature Communications · 2016 · 406 citations · Full text

Two Novel Heat-Soluble Protein Families Abundantly Expressed in an Anhydrobiotic Tardigrade

Ayami Yamaguchi, Sae Tanaka, Shiho Yamaguchi et al. · PLoS ONE · 2012 · 186 citations · Full text

Biology, Protein Chemistry, Cahs Protein +15

Reduced Genome of the Thioautotrophic Intracellular Symbiont in a Deep-Sea Clam, Calyptogena okutanii

Hirokazu Kuwahara, Takao Yoshida, Yoshihiro Takaki et al. · Current Biology · 2007 · 172 citations · Full text

Biology, Phylogenetics, Molecular Ecology +14

Dominant ectosymbiotic bacteria of cellulolytic protists in the termite gut also have the potential to digest lignocellulose

Masahiro Yuki, Hirokazu Kuwahara, Masaki Shintani et al. · Environmental Microbiology · 2015 · 71 citations

Engineering, Genetics, Lower Termites +20

Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut

Tomoyuki Sato, Hirokazu Kuwahara, Kazuma Fujita et al. · The ISME Journal · 2013 · 59 citations · Full text