Positions and Education Awards Selected Publications

Principal Investigator　Tsutomu TSUCHIDA


Positions and Education
・Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Science), University of Toyama, 2011-
・Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN, 2008-present
・JSPS Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2005-2008
・AIST Postdoctoral Research Fellow, AIST, 2004-2005
・Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of York (UK), 2003-2004
・Ph.D., University of Tokyo, 2003

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Awards
3) RIKEN Poster Award Prize for Most Popular Poster, 2010 SPDR & FPR Presentation of Research Results (2011)

2) RIKEN Poster Award Biology Prize, 2010 SPDR & FPR Presentation of Research Results (2011)

1) Outstanding Poster Award, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan (2010)

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Selected Publications
13) Tsuchida T. Koga R., Horikawa, M., Tsunoda, T., Maoka, T., Matsumoto, S., Simon, J.-C., Fukatsu T. “Symbiotic bacterium modifies aphid body color” Science. 330: 1102-1104 (2010)

12) Tsuchida T. Koga R., Matsumoto S., Fukatsu T. “Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect” Biology Letters. In press.

11) Koga R., Tsuchida T., Fukatsu T. “Quenching autofluorescence of insect tissues for In situ detection of endosymbionts.” Applied Entomology and Zoology, 44: 281-291 (2009)

10) Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., Fukatsu, T. “Endosymbiont that broadens food plant range of host insect”: Chapter 6 in Insect Symbiosis Volume 3 (Ed. by K. Bourtzis and T.Miller), CRC Press, Boca Raton. 123-141.（2008）

9) Simon J.-C., Sakurai, M., Bonhomme J., Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., Fukatsu, T. “Elimination of a specialized facultative symbiont does not affect the reproductive mode of its aphid host.” Ecological Entomology 32, 296-301. （2007）

8) Koga, R., Tsuchida, T., Sakurai, M., Fukatsu, T. “Selective elimination of aphid endosymbionts: effects of antibiotic dose and host genotype, and fitness consequences.” FEMS microbiology Ecology 60, 229-239. （2007）

7) Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., Sakurai, M., Fukatsu, T. “Facultative bacterial endosymbionts of three aphid species Aphis craccivora, Megoura crassicauda and Acyrthosiphon pisum, sympatrically found on the same host plants.” Applied Entomology and Zoology 41, 129-137. （2006）

6) Sakurai, M., Koga, R., Tsuchida, T., Meng, X.Y., Fukatsu, T. “Rickettsia symbiont in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: Novel cellular tropism, effect on host host fitness, and interaction with the essential symbiont Buchnera.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, 4069-4075. （2005）

5) Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., Meng, X.Y., Matsumoto, T., Fukatsu, T. “Characterization of a facultative endosymbiotic bacterium from the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.” Microbial Ecology 49, 126-133. （2005）This article was selected by faculty of 1000 biology.

4) Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., Fukatsu, T. “Host Plant Specialization Governed by Facultative Symbiont.” Science 303, 1989. （2004）

3) Koga R., Tsuchida T., Fukatsu T. “Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 270: 2543-2550 (2003)

2) Tsuchida T., Koga R., shibao H., Matsumoto T., Fukatsu T. “Diversity and geographic distribution of secondary endosymbiotic bacteria in natural population of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.” Molecular Ecology 11: 2123-2135. (2002)

1) Fukatsu T., Tsuchida T., Nikoh N., Koga R. “Spiroplasma symbiont of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Insecta: Homoptera).” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67: 1284-1291. (2001)

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