Md. Nurul Haider, Masahiko Nishimura, Minoru Ijichi, Ching-chia Yang, Wataru Iwasaki, and Kazuhiro Kogure. Habitability analyses of aquatic bacteria. Journal of Oceanography, 74, 197–207. (2018)

Yu Nakajima, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yohei Kumagai, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Jaeho Song, Takashi Kikukawa, Makoto Demura, Kazuhiro Kogure, Yuki Sudo and Susumu Yoshizawa. Presence of a haloarchaeal halorhodopsin-like Cl^– pump in marine bacteria. Microbes and Environments, 33, 89-97. (2018)

Yohei Kumagai, Susumu Yoshizawa, Yu Nakajima, Mai Watanabe, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Tetsuya Hayashi, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Masahiko Ikeuchi, Kazuhiro Kogure, Edward F. DeLong and Wataru Iwasaki. Solar-panel and parasol strategies shape the proteorhodopsin distribution pattern in marine Flavobacteriia. The ISME journal, 12, 1329-1343. (2018)

Daniel K. Olson, Susumu Yoshizawa, Dominique Boeuf, Wataru Iwasaki, Edward F. DeLong. Proteorhodopsin Variability and Distribution in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. The ISME journal, 12, 1047-1060. (2018)

Saki Inoue, Susumu Yoshizawa, Yu Nakajima, Keiichi Kojima, Takashi Tsukamoto, Takashi Kikukawa and Yuki Sudo. Spectroscopic characteristics of Rubricoccus marinus xenorhodopsin  (RmXeR) and a putative model for its inward H⁺ transport mechanism. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 3172-3183. (2018)

Masako Takashima*, Sira Sriswasdi*, Ri-ichiroh Manabe, Moriya Ohkuma, Takashi Sugita, and Wataru Iwasaki. A Trichosporonales genome tree based on 27 haploid and three evolutionarily. Yeast, 35, 99-111. (2017) (*M.T., and S.Ss. contributed equally to this work.)

Marty Kwok Shing Wong, Takehiro Tsukada, Nobuhiro Ogawa, Supriya Pipil, Haruka Ozaki, Yutaka Suzuki, Wataru Iwasaki, and Yoshio Takei. A sodium binding system alleviates acute salt stress during seawater acclimation in eels. Zoological Letters, 3, 22. (2017)

Sira Sriswasdi, Ching-chia Yang, and Wataru Iwasaki. Generalist species drive microbial dispersion and evolution. Nature Communications, 8, 1162. (2017) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01265-1

Satoshi Hiraoka, Masaya Miyahara, Kazushi Fujii, Asako Machiyama, and Wataru Iwasaki. Seasonal analysis of microbial communities in precipitation in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, 1506. (2017)

Masayuki Ushio, Hisato Fukuda, Toshiki Inoue, Kobayashi Makoto, Osamu Kishida, Keiichi Sato, Koichi Murata, Masato Nikaido, Tetsuya Sado, Yukuto Sato, Masamichi Takeshita, Wataru Iwasaki, Hiroki Yamanaka, Michio Kondoh, and Masaki Miya. Environmental DNA enables detection of terrestrial mammals from forest pond water. Molecular Ecology Resources, 17, e63-e75. (2017)