Kazumori Mise and Wataru Iwasaki. Environmental atlas of prokaryotes enables powerful and intuitive habitat-based analysis of community structures. iScience, 23, 101624. (2020)

Kaori Motoki, Tomo-o Watsuji, Yoshihiro Takaki, Ken Takai, and Wataru Iwasaki. Metatranscriptomics by in situ RNA stabilization directly and comprehensively revealed episymbiotic microbial communities of deep-sea squat lobsters. mSystems, 5, e00551-20. (2020)

Hui Jia, Yibang Wang, Susumu Yoshizawa, Wataru Iwasaki, Yuquan Li, Weiwei Xian, and Hui Zhang. Seasonal variation and assessment of fish resources in the Yangtze Estuary based on environmental DNA. Water, 12, 2874. (2020)

Yu Maeda, Kazumori Mise, Wataru Iwasaki, Akira Watanabe, Susumu Asakawa, Rasit Asiloglu, and Jun Murase. Invention of artificial rice field soil: A tool to study the effect of soil components on the activity and community of microorganisms involved in anaerobic organic matter decomposition. Microbes and Environments, 35, ME20093. (2020)

Toshifumi Minamoto, Masaki Miya, Tetsuya Sado, Satoquo Seino, Hideyuki Doi, Michio Kondoh, Keigo Nakamura, Teruhiko Takahara, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Yamanaka, Hitoshi Araki, Wataru Iwasaki, Akihide Kasai, Reiji Masuda, and Kimiko Uchii. An illustrated manual for environmental DNA research: Water sampling guidelines and experimental protocols. Environmental DNA, published online. (2020)

Adrian M Altenhoff, Javier Garrayo-Ventas, Salvatore Cosentino, David Emms, Natasha M Glover, Ana Hernández-Plaza, Yannis Nevers, Vicky Sundesha, Damian Szklarczyk, José M Fernández, Laia Codó, Quest for Orthologs Consortium; Josep Ll Gelpi, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Wataru Iwasaki, Steven Kelly, Odile Lecompte, Matthieu Muffato, Maria J Martin, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Paul D Thomas, Erik Sonnhammer, and Christophe Dessimoz. The Quest for Orthologs benchmark service and consensus calls in 2020. Nucleic Acids Research, 48, W538-W545. (2020)

Tsukasa Fukunaga and Wataru Iwasaki. Logicome Profiler: Exhaustive detection of statistically significant logic relationships from comparative omics data. PLOS ONE, 15, e0232106. (2020)

Yuji Tokumoto, Kayo Hashimoto, Takashi Soyano, Seishiro Aoki, Wataru Iwasaki, Mai Fukuhara, Tomomi Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Saeki, Jun Yokoyama, Hironori Fujita, and Masayoshi Kawaguchi.

Assessment of Polygala paniculata (Polygalaceae) characteristics for evolutionary studies of legume–rhizobia symbiosis. Journal of Plant Research, 133, 109-122. (2020)

David M. Needham*, Susumu Yoshizawa*, Toshiaki Hosaka*, Camille Poirier, Chang Jae Choi, Elisabeth Hehenberger, Nicholas A. T. Irwin, Susanne Wilken, Cheuk-Man Yung, Charles Bachy, Rika Kurihara, Yu Nakajima, Keiichi Kojima, Tomomi Kimura-Someya, Guy Leonard, Rex R. Malmstrom, Daniel R. Mende, Daniel K. Olson, Yuki Sudo, Sebastian Sudek, Thomas A. Richards, Edward F. DeLong, Patrick J. Keeling, Alyson E. Santoro, Mikako Shirouzu, Wataru Iwasaki and Alexandra Z. Worden. A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin photosystem to unicellular marine predators. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 116, 20574-20583. (2019)

Shotaro Hirase, Ayumi Tezuka, Atsushi J. Nagano, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, and Wataru Iwasaki. Genetic isolation by distance in the yellowfin goby populations revealed by RAD sequencing. Ichthyological Research, published online. (2019)