A Spirochaete is suggested as the causative agent of Akoya oyster disease by metagenomic analysis

• Tomomasa Matsuyama ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: matsuym@fra.affrc.go.jp

  Affiliation Research Center of Fish Diseases, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9520-8263

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• Motoshige Yasuike,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center for Bioinformatics and Biosciences, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Atushi Fujiwara,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center for Bioinformatics and Biosciences, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yoji Nakamura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Research Center for Bioinformatics and Biosciences, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Tomokazu Takano,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research Center of Fish Diseases, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, Japan

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• Takeshi Takeuchi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan

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• Noriyuki Satoh,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Genomics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, Japan

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• Yoshikazu Adachi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biological production science, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yasushi Tsuchihashi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute, Shima, Mie, Japan

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• Hideo Aoki,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mie Prefecture Fisheries Research Institute, Shima, Mie, Japan

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• Kazushi Odawara,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ehime Prefecture Fisheries Research Center, Uwajima, Ehime, Japan

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• Shunsuke Iwanaga,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Nagasaki Prefectural Institute of Fisheries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Jun Kurita,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Center of Fish Diseases, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, Japan

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• Takashi Kamaishi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Center of Fish Diseases, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, Japan

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• Chihaya Nakayasu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Center of Fish Diseases, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Minami-Ise, Mie, Japan

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