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Publications

>Recent Publications (2025.01-present)
>2024
>2023
>2022
>2021

Recent Publications (2025.01-present)

4. Kodama M, Mukaida Y, Hosoki TK, Jimi N.
A new species of the genus Lepechinella Stebbing, 1908 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lepechinellidae) from Japan.
Zootaxa.>>Link

3. Tsuyuki A, Shimooka S, Oya Y. (2025) Record of Euilyoida takewakii (Kato, 1935) (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Acotylea) from Fukuoka, Japan, with notes on its phylogenetic position.
Plankton and Benthos Research. >>Link

2. Jimi N, Hookabe N, Woo SP, Fujiwarab Y. Taxonomy and ecological insights into Melinnopsis shinkaiae sp. nov., a polychaete with a vertical tube from the Daiichi-Kashima seamount (Northwest Pacific).
Plankton and Bethos Research.>>Link

1. Nishi E, Abe H, Jimi N, Tanaka K, Kobayashi G, Makiguchi N, Kupriyanova EK.
Description of a Reef-forming Neosabellaria upopoy sp. nov. (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from Shallow Waters off Iburi, Hokkaido, Japan, with Notes on its Reproduction and Early Development.
Sessile Organisms.>>Link

2024

24. Ohashi A, Fukuoka M, Kanzaki T, Hirose M, Takada K, Ise Y.
Unveiling the predator–prey interaction between a newly discovered nudibranch and sponge with molecular evidence.
Fisheries Science. >>Link

23. 木村妙子・木村昭一・藤本心太・櫛田優花・露木葵唯・波々伯部夏美・下岡敏士・自見直人・白木祥貴・中島広喜・小川晟人・鄧宗靖・幸塚久典・喜瀬浩輝・角井敬知・松下拓輝・Gregorius Altius Pratama・小林格・胡品燚・前川陽一・中村亨・奥村順哉・高野雅貴.
熊野灘の深海底生動物相〜2023年勢水丸研究航海から.
三重大学大学院生物資源学研究科紀要 >>Link
Japanese Only.

22. Nishi E, Tanaka K, Jimi N, Tovar-Hernández MA.
A new species of Euchonoides (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae) from Suruga Bay, Japan.
Plankton and Bethos Research. >>Link
21. Chen C, Hookabe N, Hashimoto R, Shimooka S, Shiraki S, Uyeno D, Kawagucci S.
Faunal Composition of the Sumisu Caldera Hydrothermal Vent Field as a Key Baseline for Conservation in Light of Deep-Sea Mining.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. >>Link

20. Jimi N, Hookabe N, Shiraki S, Yokooka H, Woo SP, Tsuchida S, Fujiwara Y.
A new species of Flabelligena (Acrocirridae: Annelida) from the Western Pacific.
Species Diversity . >>Link

19. 福岡雅史
海藻類、棘皮動物類のモニタリング調査について
臨海・臨湖 No. 41（国立大学法人 臨海・臨湖実験所・センター 技術職員研修会議会誌）>>>Link
Jananese only.

18. Jimi N, Hookabe N, Imura S, Diez YL.
Two new species of Schizorhynchia (Kalyptorhynchia: Rhabdocoela: Platyhelminthes) from Japan.
Zoosystematics and Evolution. >>Link

17. Goda M, Shribak M, Ikeda Z, Okada N, Tani T, Goshima G, Oldenbourg R, Kimura A.
Live-cell imaging under centrifugation characterized the cellular force for nuclear centration in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. >>Link

16. Koyama A, Imai T, Matsushima K, Shimooka S.
Sub-habitat classification of temperate salt marshes in Japan based on aquatic fauna.
Global Ecology and Conservation. >>Link

15. Jimi N.
The Polychaetous Annelids of Japan: Updated Checklist of Known Species.
Species Diversity. >>Link

14. Tago T, Fujii S, Sasaki S, Shirae-Kurabayashi M, Sakamoto N, Yamamoto T, Maeda M, Ueki T, Satoh T, Satoh AK.
Cell-wide arrangement of Golgi/RE units depends on the microtubule organization.
Cell Struct Funct. >>Link

13. Jimi N, Fujiwara Y, Kajihara H.
Evaluation of “Cirriformia tentaculata” (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Japan as a Pollution Indicator in Marine Environments: Is it Truly a Single Species?
Species Diversity.>>Link

12. Yamasaki H, Yoshida M, Jimi N, Hookabe N, Sako M, Kohtsuka H, Fujimoto S.
Kinorhynch fauna from Oki Islands, with the description of a new Echinoderes species and its phylogenetic relationships within the family Echinoderidae.
Zoologischer Anzeiger. >>Link

11. Hookabe N, Jimi N, Furushima Y, Fujiwara Y.
Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem.
Biology Letters.>>Link

10. Jimi N, Britayev T, Sako M, Woo SP, Martin D.
A new genus and species of nudibranch-mimicking Syllidae (Annelida, Polychaeta).
Scientific Reports. >>Link
>>Press relearse（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.

9. Hookabe N, Jimi N, Fujimoto S, Kajihara H.
Revisiting Stygocapitella (Annelida, Parergodrilidae) in Japan, with insights into their amphi-Pacific diversification.
Royal Society Open Science. >>Link

8. Hookabe N, Jimi N, Ogawa A, Tsuchiya M, Sluys R.
The abyssal parasitic flatworm Fecampia cf. abyssicola: new records, anatomy, and molecular phylogeny, with a discussion on its systematic position.
Biological Bulletin. >>Link

7. Ochiai KK, Hanawa D, Ogawa HA, Tanaka H, Uesaka K, Edzuka T, Shirae-Kurabayashi M, Toyoda A, Itoh T, Goshima G.
Genome sequence and cell biological toolbox of the highly regenerative, coenocytic green feather alga Bryopsis.
The Plant Journal. >>Link
>>Press relearse（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.
>>Science Japan（JST).
>>客観日本（JST).　Chinese only.

6. 木村妙子・木村昭一・自見直人・喜瀬浩輝・波々伯部夏美・藤本心太・中島広喜・松尾拓己・山崎博史・小林格・小川晟人・櫛田優花・前川陽一・中村亨・奥村順哉・高野雅貴
伊勢湾南部潮下帯の底生動物相.
三重大学フィールド研究・技術年報. >>Link
Jepanese only.

5. Hasegawa N, Hookabe N, Fujiwara Y, Jimi N, Kajihara H.
Supplemental re-description of a deep-sea ascidian, Fimbrora calsubia (Ascidiacea, Enterogona), with an inference of its phylogenetic position.
Zoosystematics and Evolution. >>Link

4. Nishi E, Tomioka S, Jimi N, Fujiwara Y, Kupriyanova EK.
A new species of Amphictene (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pectinariidae) from off Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan.
Plankton and Benthos Research. >>Link

3. Komori S, Yamabe S, Matsuta R, Yamazaki Y, Fukuoka M, Sato S, Takada K.
Mebamamide C, a deoxy analogue of mebamamides in Bryopsis marine green algae and Elysia sacoglossan mollusks.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. >>Link

2. Nakajima H, Sato T, Jimi N.
Superfamily Eurysquilloidea (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from Japan.
Species Diversity. >>Link

1. Jimi N, Hookabe N, Fujimoto S, Kise H, Ogawa A, Tsuchiya M.
Three species of Fauveliopsidae (Annelida) from the northwestern Pacific including a new species.
Plankton and Benthos Research. >>Link

2023

16. Jimi N, Nakajima H, Sato T, Gonzalez BC, Woo SP, Rouse GW, Britayev TA.
Two new species of Parahesione (Annelida: Hesionidae) associated with ghost shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) and their phylogenetic relationships.
Peer J. >>Link

15. Yamazaki Y, Yamabe S, Komori S, Yoshitake K, Fukuoka M, Sato S, and Takada T.
Structure Determination of Kahalalide Analogues Based on Metagenomic Analysis of a Bryopsis sp. Marine Green Alga.
Journal of Natural Products. >>Link

14. Yoshida MW, Oguri N, Goshima G.
Physcomitrium patens SUN2 mediates MTOC association to the nuclear envelope and facilitates chromosome alignment during spindle assembly.
Plant Cell Physiol. >>Link

13. Sato M, Jimi N, Itani G, Henmi Y, Kobayashi S.
Synonymy of the scale worm Hesperonoe urechis with Arctonoella sinagawaensis (Annelida: Polynoidae), newly recorded from the Seto Inland Sea, Western Japan, with remarks on symbiosis with the spoon worm Urechis unicinctus (Annelida: Thalassematidae).
Species Diversity. >>Link

12. Kayama-Watanabe H, Uyeno D, Yamamori L, Jimi N, Chen C.
From commensalism to parasitism within a genus-level clade of barnacles.
Biology Letters. >>Link

11. Sawada H, Inoue S, Saito T, Otsuka K, Shirae-Kurabayashi M.
Involvement in Fertilization and Expression of Gamete Ubiquitin-Activating Enzymes UBA1 and UBA6 in the Ascidian Halocynthia roretzi.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. >>Link
10. Hookabe N, Fujino Y, Jimi N, Ueshima R.
At the edge of the sea: the supralittoral nemertean, Acteonemertes orientalis sp. nov. (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera: Plectonemertidae) from Japan.
Invertebrate Systematics. >>Link

9. Jimi N, Shinji J, Hookabe N, Okanishi M, Woo SP, Nakano T.
A new species of Branchellion (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) parasizitzing the gills of short-tail singrays (Batoidea: Dasyatidae) from the West Pacific.
Zoological Science. >>Link

8. Tsuyuki A, Oya Y, Jimi N, Hookabe N, Fujimoto S, Kajihara H.
Theama japonica sp. nov., an Interstitial Polyclad Flatworm Showing a Wide Distribution along Japanese Coasts.
Zoological Science. >>Link

7. Yoshida MW, Hakozaki M, Goshima G.
Armadillo repeat-containing kinesin represents the versatile plus-end-directed transporter in Physcomitrella.
Nat Plants. >>Link
>>Press relearse（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.

6. Kurita G, Goshima G, Uesaka K.
Draft Genome Sequences of Two Dothideomycetes Strains, NU30 and NU200, Derived from the Marine Environment around Sugashima, Japan.
Microbiol Resour Announc. >>Link

5. Jimi N, Kobayashi I, Moritaki T, Woo SP, Tsuchida S, Fujiwara Y.
Insights into the diversification of deep-sea endoparasites: Phylogenetic relationships within Dendrogaster (Crustacea: Ascothoracida) and a new species description from a western Pacific seamount.
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. >>Link

4. Jimi N, Bessho-Uehara M, Nakamura K, Sakata M, Hayashi T, Kanie S, Mitani Y, Ohmiya Y, Tsuyuki A, Ota Y, Woo SP, Ogoh K.
Investigating the diversity of bioluminescent marine worm Polycirrus (Annelida), with description of three new species from the Western Pacific.
Royal Society Open Science. >>Link
>>EurekAlert!

3. Jimi N, Fujita T, Woo SP.
Four new species of coral- and rock-boring polychaetes Daylithos (Annelida, Flabelligeridae) from the Pacific Ocean.
Zoosystematics and Evolution. >>Link

2. Ta KN*, Yoshida MW*, Tezuka T, Shimizu-Sato S, Nosaka-Takahashi M, Toyoda A, Suzuki T, Goshima G, Sato Y.
Control of plant cell growth and proliferation by MO25A, a conserved major component of the Mammalian Sterile20-like kinase pathway.
Plant and Cell Physiology. >>Link
* equal contribution

1. Cejp B, Jimi N, Aguado MT.
Another piece for the syllid puzzle: A new species from Japan and its mitochondrial genome reveal the enigmatic Clavisyllis (Phyllodocida: Syllidae) as a member of Eusyllinae.
Zootaxa. >>Link

2022

22. 自見直人.
イッスンボウシウロコムシ──矮雄を背負う変なゴカイ. 京都大学フィールド科学教育研究センター (編) 海産無脊椎動物多様性学 100年の歴史とフロンティア. 京都大学学術出版会. 706 pp.
Japanese only.

21. Hookabe N, Moritaki T, Jimi N, Ueshima R.
A new oerstediid discovered from wood falls in the Sea of Kumano, Japan: Description of Rhombonemertes rublinea gen. et sp. nov. (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera).
Zoologischer Anzeiger. >>Link

20. Taylor A, Mortimer K, Jimi N.
Unearthing the diversity of Japanese Magelona (Annelida: Magelonidae); three species new to science, and a redescription of Magelona japonica.
Zootaxa. >>Link

19. Shimada D, Jimi N.
Taxonomic revision of the free-living marine nematode genus Deontostoma (Enoplida: Leptosomatidae) and inclusion of a new species from the Southern Ocean.
Nematology (online first). >>Link

18. Hookabe N, Kajihara H, Chernyshev AV, Jimi N, Hasegawa N, Kohtsuka H, Okanishi M, Tani K, Fujiwara Y, Tsuchida S, Ueshima R.
Molecular phylogeny of the genus Nipponnemertes (Nemertea: Monostilifera: Cratenemertidae) and descriptions of 10 new species, with notes on small body size in a newly discovered clade.
Frontiers in Marine Science. >>Link
>>Press relearse（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.

17. Jimi N, Tsuchida S, Kayama Watanabe H, Ohara Y, Yokooka H, Woo SP, Fujiwara Y.
Worm on worm: two rare genera of Calamyzinae (Annelida, Chrysopetalidae), with a description of new species.
Parasitology International. >>Link

16. Kin I, Jimi N, Ohtsuka S, Mizuno G, Nakamura T, Maekawa Y, Oba Y.
The COI haplotype diversity of the pelagic polychaete Tomopteris (Annelida: Tomopteridae) collected from the Pacific coast off Kii Peninsula, central Japan.
Plankton and Benthos Research. >>Link

15. Jimi N, Chen C, Fujiwara Y.
Two new species of Branchinotogluma (Polynoidae: Annelida) from chemosynthesis-based ecosystems in Japan.
Zootaxa. >>Link

14. Nishi E, Abe H, Tanaka K, Jimi N, Kupriyanova EK.
A new species of the Spirobranchus kraussii complex, S. akitsushima (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae), from the rocky intertidal zone of Japan.
ZooKeys. >>Link
>>Press relearse（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.

13. Ogawa A, Jimi N, Hiruta SF, Chen C, Kobayashi I, Pratama GA, Tanaka H, Okanishi M, Komatsu H, Ikehara M.
Taxonomy and distribution of deep benthos collected in and around the Southern Ocean during the 30th Anniversary Expeditions of R/V Hakuho Maru: Annelida, Mollusca, Ostracoda, Decapoda, and Echinodermata.
Polar Science. >>Link

12. Jimi N,, Hasegawa N, Taru M, Oya Y, Kohtsuka H, Tsuchida S, Fujiwara Y, Woo SP.
Five New Species of Flabelligera (Flabelligeridae: Annelida) from Japan.
Species Diversity. >>Link

11. Kozgunova E, Yoshida MW, Reski R, Goshima G.
Spindle motility skews division site determination during asymmetric cell division in Physcomitrella.
Nat Commun. >>Link
　>>　Press release（Nagoya Univ.), japanease only.


10. Hookabe N, Motobayashi H, Jimi N, Kajihara H, Ueshima R.
First record of the decapod-egg predator Ovicides paralithodis (Nemertea, Carcinonemertidae) from the snow crab Chionoecetes opilio (Decapoda, Brachyura).
Parasitology International. >>Link

9. Jimi N, Fujimoto S, Fujiwara Y, Oguchi K, Miura T.
Four new species of Ctenodrilus, Raphidrilus, and Raricirrus (Cirratuliformia, Annelida) in Japanese waters, with notes on their phylogenetic position.
Peer J. >>Link

8. Kim J, Goshima G.
Mitotic spindle formation in the absence of Polo kinase.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. >>Link
>>　Press release（Nagoya University), japanease only.

7. Yi P, Goshima G.
Division site determination during plant asymmetric division.
Plant Cell. >>Link

6. Aguado MT, Ponz-Segrelles G, Glasby CJ, Ribeiro RP, Nakamura M, Oguchi K, Omori A, Kohtsuka H, Fisher C, Ise Y, Jimi N, Miura T.
Ramisyllis kingghidorahin. sp., a new branching annelid from Japan.
Organisms Diversity & Evolution. >>Link
>> Press release（The university of Tokyo), Japanease only.

5. Hookabe N, Jimi N, Yokooka H, Tsuchida S, Fujiwara Y.
Lacydonia shohoensis (Annelida, Lacydoniidae) sp. nov. – a new lacydonid species from deep-sea sunken wood discovered at the Nishi-Shichito Ridge, North-western Pacific Ocean.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. >>Link

4. Molines AT,Lemière J, Edrington CH, Hsu C-T, Steinmark IE, Suhling K, Goshima G, Holt LJ, Brouhard GJ, Chang F.
Physical properties of the cytoplasm modulate the rates of microtubule growth and shrinkage.
Dev Cell. >>Link

3. Shirae-Kurabayashi M, Edzuka T, Suzuki M, Goshima G.
Cell tip growth underlies injury response of marine macroalgae
PLOS One. >>Link

2. Goshima G.
Growth and division mode plasticity is dependent on cell density in marine-derived black yeasts
Genes to Cells. >>Link

1. Roeder AHK, Otegui MS, Dixit R, Anderson CT, Faulkner C, Zhang Y, Harrison MJ, Kirchhelle C, Goshima G, Coate JE, Doyle JJ, Hamant O, Sugimoto K, Dolan L, Meyer H, Ehrhardt DW, Boudaoud A, Messina C.
Fifteen compelling open questions in plant cell biology.
Plant Cell. >>Link

2021

Nakano H, Jimi N, Sasaki T, Kajihara H.
Sinking Down or Floating Up? Current State of Taxonomic Studies on Marine Invertebrates in Japan Inferred from the Number of New Species Published Between the Years 2003 and 2020.
Zoological Science 39: Online first. >>Link

Kanie S, Miura D, Jimi N, Hayashi T, Nakamura K, Sakata M, Ogoh K, Ohmiya Y, Mitani Y.
Violet bioluminescent Polycirrus sp. (Annelida: Terebelliformia) discovered in the shallow coastal waters of the Noto Peninsula in Japan.
Sci Rep. >>Link

Jimi N, Hookabe N, Tani K, Yoshida R, Imura S.
The phylogenetic position of Branchamphinome (Annelida, Amphinomidae) with a description of a new species from the North Pacific Ocean
Zool Sci. >>Link

Tsuchiya K, Goshima G.
Microtubule-associated proteins promote microtubule generation in the absence of γ-tubulin in human colon cancer cells
J Cell Biol. . >>Link
>>　Press release（Nagoya University), japanease only.

Gomes Pereira S, Sousa AL, Nabais C, Paixão T, Holmes AJ, Schorb M, Goshima G, Tranfield EM, Becker JD, Bettencourt-Dias M.
The 3D architecture and molecular foundations of de novo centriole assembly via bicentrioles
Curr Biol. >>Link

Goshima G.
Microtubule Nucleation Pathways
Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry III (Third Edition). >>Link