Publications

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*authors contributed equally

2026

Genome sequence of Ceratocystis huliohia, a fungal pathogen of the native ‘ōhi‘a tree in Hawai‘i.

Anne Nakamoto, Lisa Keith, Qingyi Yu, Lionel Sugiyama, Xiaohua Wu, Blaine Luiz, MaryAnn Villalun, Jodie Jacobs, Russ Corbett-Detig, Ariana Cisneros, Harrison D. Heath, Cole Shanks, Faith Okamoto, Alexis Abigail Aroma Albura, Kyle Henricson, Yi Jun Lan, Henry Moore, William Seligmann, Yulia Zybina.
Microbiology Resource Announcements, 0:e00236-26.

Complete de novo assembly of Wolbachia endosymbiont of contemporary Drosophila simulans using long-read genome sequencing.

Jodie Jacobs, Alexandra Lum, Elyse Mina, Camryn N. Morey, Darren D. Lee, Emry Gutierrez, Jonah Dionisio, Cade Mirchandani, Luke Sylvester, Anne Nakamoto, Hailey Loucks, Ciara Wanket, Ariana Cisneros, Alessandro Calicchio, Alexis N. Enstrom, Camille Headrick, Faith Okamoto, Harrison D. Heath, Kseniya Malukhina, Petria Russell, Sagorika Nag, Thomas Gillespie, William Sobolewski, Zia Truong, Shelbi L. Russell.
Microbiology Resource Announcements, 0:e00992-25.

2025

Horizontal transmission of functionally diverse transposons is a major source of new introns.

Landen Gozashti, Anne Nakamoto, Shelbi Russell, Russell Corbett-Detig.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 122 (21) e2414761122.

2024

First Report of Leaf Spot Caused by Paramyrothecium roridum on Coffea arabica in Hawai‘i, U.S.A.

Lionel Sugiyama, Brian Bushe, Eva Brill, MaryAnn Villalun, Anne Nakamoto, Lisa Keith.
Plant Disease, 108 (10), 3198.

Complete de novo assembly of Wolbachia endosymbiont of Drosophila willistoni using long-read genome sequencing.

Jodie Jacobs,* Anne Nakamoto,* Mira Mastoras, Hailey Loucks, Cade Mirchandani, Lily Karim, Gabriel Penunuri, Ciara Wanket, Shelbi L Russell.
Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 17770.

2023

Intraspecific variation of transposable elements reveals differences in the evolutionary history of fungal phytopathogen pathotypes.

Anne Nakamoto,* Pierre Joubert,* Ksenia Krasileva.
Genome Biology and Evolution, 15 (12), evad206.