Miki Okuno

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Miki Okuno is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Miki Okuno has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Endocrinology and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Miki Okuno's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (7 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers). Miki Okuno is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Escherichia coli research studies (7 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers). Miki Okuno collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Australia and India. Miki Okuno's co-authors include Takehiko Itoh, Rei Kajitani, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshitoshi Ogura, Asao Fujiyama, Tetsuya Hayashi, Yuji Kohara, Hideki Noguchi, Eiji Nagayasu and Masayuki Harada and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Miki Okuno

35 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

2014 717 citations Rei Kajitani, Hideki Noguchi et al. profile →

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Rei Kajitani Japan

Michael J. Roach Australia

Christopher Dunn United States

Guy Slater United Kingdom

Isheng Jason Tsai Taiwan

Tomáš Brůna United States

Sean M. Sykes United States

Abraham Morales‐Cruz United States

Oliver Keller United States

Derek Butler Netherlands

Rei Kajitani Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Miki Okuno

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20 of 20 papers shown

Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2025). Mycoplasma pneumoniae drives macrophage lipid uptake via GlpD-mediated oxidation, facilitating foam cell formation. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 318. 151646–151646. 1 indexed citations

Haruta, Masatoshi, Kazunori Sato, Miki Okuno, et al.. (2025). Development of a rapid detection system for fluoroquinolone-resistant Corynebacterium macginleyi. Experimental Eye Research. 259. 110571–110571.

Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2025). Genetic diversity of dissolved free extracellular DNA compared to intracellular DNA in wastewater treatment plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 970. 178989–178989.

Yamori, Wataru, Hiroyoshi Matsumura, Yuchen Qu, et al.. (2024). Resistance to the herbicide metribuzin conferred to Arabidopsis thaliana by targeted base editing of the chloroplast genome. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(1). 204–215. 7 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Yuki, Tohru Miyoshi‐Akiyama, Junko Tomida, et al.. (2024). Streptococcus suis subsp. hashimotonensis subsp. nov.: Lancefield group A antigen–positive organisms isolated from human clinical specimens and wild boar oral cavity samples. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 47(5). 126538–126538. 3 indexed citations

Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2024). Metabolic engineering with adaptive laboratory evolution for phenylalanine production by Corynebacterium glutamicum. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 137(5). 344–353. 4 indexed citations

Kakita, Tetsuya, Kenichi Lee, Masatomo Morita, et al.. (2024). Isolation and whole‐genome sequencing analysis of Escherichia fergusonii harboring a heat‐labile enterotoxin gene from retail chicken meat in Okinawa, Japan. Microbiology and Immunology. 68(3). 115–121. 2 indexed citations

Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2023). Characterization and development of a plastid genome base editor, ptpTALECD. The Plant Journal. 115(4). 1151–1162. 16 indexed citations

Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2023). Chromosomal-level assembly of Tokudaia osimensis, Tokudaia tokunoshimensis, and Tokudaia muenninki genomes. Scientific Data. 10(1). 927–927. 1 indexed citations

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Chagneau, Camille V., Delphine Payros, Laure C. David, et al.. (2023). HlyF, an underestimated virulence factor of uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 29(11). 1449.e1–1449.e9. 8 indexed citations

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Taniguchi, Takeaki, Miki Okuno, Kazuki Takahashi, et al.. (2023). GINGER: an integrated method for high-accuracy prediction of gene structure in higher eukaryotes at the gene and exon level. DNA Research. 30(4). 5 indexed citations

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Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2022). Targeted base editing in the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(20). e2121177119–e2121177119. 40 indexed citations

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Okuno, Miki, et al.. (2022). Evolutionary History of Sexual Differentiation Mechanism in Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(7). 19 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Masaaki, Miki Okuno, Hiroyuki Tanaka, et al.. (2022). Gene Recruitments and Dismissals in the Argonaut Genome Provide Insights into Pelagic Lifestyle Adaptation and Shell-like Eggcase Reacquisition. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(11). 5 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Yuya, Shuji Takada, Rei Kajitani, et al.. (2022). Turnover of mammal sex chromosomes in the Sry -deficient Amami spiny rat is due to male-specific upregulation of Sox9. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(49). e2211574119–e2211574119. 21 indexed citations

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Miyakoshi, Masatoshi, Takeshi Kanda, Yūki Tanaka, et al.. (2021). Mining RNA‐seq data reveals the massive regulon of GcvB small RNA and its physiological significance in maintaining amino acid homeostasis in Escherichia coli. Molecular Microbiology. 117(1). 160–178. 19 indexed citations

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Kajitani, Rei, Hideki Noguchi, Yasuhiro Gotoh, et al.. (2021). MetaPlatanus: a metagenome assembler that combines long-range sequence links and species-specific features. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(22). e130–e130. 8 indexed citations

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Okuno, Miki, Shusei Mizushima, Asato Kuroiwa, & Takehiko Itoh. (2021). Analysis of Sex Chromosome Evolution in the Clade Palaeognathae from Phased Genome Assembly. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(11). 5 indexed citations

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Okuno, Miki, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yoshiko Tamura, et al.. (2021). Targeted base editing in the plastid genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Plants. 7(7). 906–913. 77 indexed citations

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Kajitani, Rei, Dai Yoshimura, Miki Okuno, et al.. (2019). Platanus-allee is a de novo haplotype assembler enabling a comprehensive access to divergent heterozygous regions. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1702–1702. 92 indexed citations

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