Masaharu Takemura

14PUBLICATIONS
5CO-AUTHORS
Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomyMedical virologyTe whakahaere whenua me te wai o te Māori (Māori land and water management)Medical infection agents (incl. prions)Microbial genetics
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Publications (14)

|May 14, 2026
Refining a giant virus lineage: a novel order unifying Mamonoviridae and "Manesviridae," unveiled by the discovery of furtivovirus.

|Nov 24, 2025
A newly isolated giant virus, ushikuvirus, is closely related to clandestinovirus and shows a unique capsid surface structure and host cell interactions.

Jiwan Bae, Narumi Hatori, Raymond N Burton-Smith

|Feb 25, 2025
Near-complete genome of medusavirus euryale, putative third species of the genus Medusavirus, isolated from the TaeHwaGang river, Ulsan, South Korea.

Jiwan Bae, Masaharu Takemura

|Nov 08, 2024
Visualization of giant Mimivirus in a movie for biology classrooms.

Kanako Morioka, Ayumi Fujieda, Masaharu Takemura

|Aug 28, 2024
Subnanometer structure of medusavirus capsid during maturation using cryo-electron microscopy.

Ryoto Watanabe, Chihong Song, Masaharu Takemura

|Jun 11, 2024
Complete genome sequence of Tornadovirus japonicus, a relative of Pacmanvirus, isolated from the Tamagawa River in Japan.

Daniel Waschestjuk, Kazuyoshi Murata, Masaharu Takemura

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Frequent Collaborators

4 joint publications

Kazuyoshi Murata

3 joint publications

Jiwan Bae

2 joint publications

Sho Fukaya

1 joint publications

Motohiro Akashi