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Hirofumi Watanabe

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74

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Active since

1989

Affiliations

Institute of Agrobiological Sciences(Current)

University of the Ryukyus

The University of Tokyo

Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science

The University of Sydney

Hirofumi Watanabe is an author at Institute of Agrobiological Sciences specializing in life sciences, microbiology, and biochemistry.

Publications per year

1989–2023

74

Publications

74

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

Nathan Lo, Gaku Tokuda, Hirofumi Watanabe et al. · Current Biology · 2000 · 349 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology +12

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 · 240 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Plant Nutrition +8

Hidden cellulases in termites: revision of an old hypothesis

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

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +16

Endogenous Plant Cell Wall Digestion: A Key Mechanism in Insect Evolution

Nancy Calderón-Cortés, Maurício Quesada, Hirofumi Watanabe et al. · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2012 · 169 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology +17

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 · 165 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Ecology, Microbiology +13

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