Toward the development of a high-throughput reconstruction method of termite gut bacterial genomes

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23K18035
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Medium-sized Section 39:Agricultural and environmental biology and related fields
Research Institution	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
Principal Investigator	ブギーニョントマ沖縄科学技術大学院大学, 進化ゲノミクスユニット, 准教授 (40817558)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	徳田岳琉球大学, 熱帯生物圏研究センター, 教授 (90322750)
Project Period (FY)	2023-06-30 – 2025-03-31
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help	¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000) Fiscal Year 2024: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000) Fiscal Year 2023: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Keywords	Isoptera / HiFi reads / termite / gut microbes
Outline of Research at the Start	We will reconstruct full bacterial genomes from the gut metagenomes of the Ryukyuan termite species Nasutitermes takasagoensis and Odontotermes formosanus using long-read sequencing technology.