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Marie Asao

Environmental Science · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2006
Microbial Community Ecology and PhysiologyGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesPhotosynthetic Processes and MechanismsProtist diversity and phylogenyArsenic contamination and mitigation

Publications

18

Citations

531

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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Marie Asao studies microorganisms that live in extreme environments, such as hot springs and Antarctic microbial mats, with a particular focus on purple sulfur and purple nonsulfur bacteria. This work involves describing new bacterial species and sequencing their genomes to understand how they survive and carry out photosynthesis-related processes in unusual conditions.

Microbial ecology in extreme environmentsPurple sulfur and nonsulfur bacteriaGenome sequencing of environmental microbesPhotosynthetic microorganismsTaxonomy and species description

Publication output has been low and irregular over the last decade, with only a few papers appearing in scattered years (2017, 2022, 2025) and no consistent yearly output.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication17181920212022: 2 publications22223242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Archives of Microbiology×2
  • Microorganisms×1
  • Journal of Bacteriology×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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