Shuji Shigenobu

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• Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: Parapriacanthus fish obtain luciferase from ostracod prey.
• A comprehensive reference transcriptome resource for the Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl, an emerging model for developmental and regeneration biology.
• A draft genome assembly of the solar-powered sea slug Elysia chlorotica.
• Antimicrobial Activities of Cysteine-rich Peptides Specific to Bacteriocytes of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.
• Comparative cytology, physiology and transcriptomics of Burkholderia insecticola in symbiosis with the bean bug Riptortus pedestris and in culture.
• Duplication and soldier-specific expression of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase genes in a nasute termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis.
• Exaggeration and cooption of innate immunity for social defense
• Global Shifts in Gene Expression Profiles Accompanied with Environmental Changes in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Endosymbiosis.
• Precise staging of beetle horn formation in Trypoxylus dichotomus reveals the pleiotropic roles of doublesex depending on the spatiotemporal developmental contexts.
• Termite soldier mandibles are elongated by dachshund under hormonal and Hox gene controls.
• Transcriptomic analysis reveals differences in the regulation of amino acid metabolism in asexual and sexual planarians.
• Transcriptomic changes during caste development through social interactions in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis.
• A lipocalin protein, Neural Lazarillo, is key to social interactions that promote termite soldier differentiation.
• Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex allows direct and rapid analysis of coding and noncoding regions of target genes in Pleurodeles waltl development and regeneration.
• Evidence of non-tandemly repeated rDNAs and their intragenomic heterogeneity in Rhizophagus irregularis
• Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles.
• Genomic Insight into Symbiosis-Induced Insect Color Change by a Facultative Bacterial Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis".
• Molecular Basis of White Adipose Tissue Remodeling That Precedes and Coincides With Hibernation in the Syrian Hamster, a Food-Storing Hibernator.
• Parallel and gradual genome erosion in the Blattabacterium endosymbionts of Mastotermes darwiniensis and Cryptocercus wood roaches.
• Repeated inversions within a pannier intron drive diversification of intraspecific colour patterns of ladybird beetles.
• Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles.
• TGFβ signaling related genes are involved in hormonal mediation during termite soldier differentiation.
• The genome of Rhizophagus clarus HR1 reveals a common genetic basis for auxotrophy among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
• The mycoheterotrophic symbiosis between orchids and mycorrhizal fungi possesses major components shared with mutualistic plant-mycorrhizal symbioses.
• Comparative analysis of the brain transcriptome in a hyper-aggressive fruit fly, Drosophila prolongata.
• Comparison of green and albino individuals of the partially mycoheterotrophic orchid Epipactis helleborine on molecular identities of mycorrhizal fungi, nutritional modes, and gene expression in mycorrhizal roots.
• Conserved role of Ovo in germline development in mouse and Drosophila.
• Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts through Antimicrobial Peptides.
• Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles.
• Transcriptome profiling of the spermatheca identifies genes potentially involved in the long-term sperm storage of ant queens.
• Transcriptome sequencing and estimation of DNA methylation level in the subsocial wood-feeding cockroach <Emphasis Type="Italic">Cryptocercus punctulatus</Emphasis> (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae)
• Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton.
• Expression of genes involved in the uptake of inorganic carbon in the gill of a deep-sea vesicomyid clam harboring intracellular thioautotrophic bacteria.
• Antennal RNA-sequencing analysis reveals evolutionary aspects of chemosensory proteins in the carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus.
• Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge.
• Comparison of gene expression of Paramecium bursaria with and without Chlorella variabilis symbionts.
• Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host's Ecological Adaptation.
• The evolutionary history of termites as inferred from 66 mitochondrial genomes.
• Whole-Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. Strain RPE67, a Bacterial Gut Symbiont of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris.
• Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont.
• Complete Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. Strain RPE64, Bacterial Symbiont of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris
• Construction and Characterization of Normalized cDNA Libraries by 454 Pyrosequencing and Estimation of DNA Methylation Levels in Three Distantly Related Termite Species
• Maintenance of essential amino acid synthesis pathways in the Blattabacterium cuenoti symbiont of a wood-feeding cockroach
• The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan.
• TOO MUCH LOVE, a Novel Kelch Repeat-Containing F-box Protein, Functions in the Long-Distance Regulation of the Legume–Rhizobium Symbiosis
• Sexual and asexual oogenesis require the expression of unique and shared sets of genes in the insect Acyrthosiphon pisum
• Genome expansion and differential expression of amino acid transporters at the aphid/Buchnera symbiotic interface.
• Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont.
• Non-molting glossy/shroud encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the ‘Black Box’ of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway
• Transcription factor AP2-Sp and its target genes in malarial sporozoites.
• Expression of genes involved in sumoylation in the Drosophila germline.
• Expression of the apoptosis inducer gene head involution defective in primordial germ cells of the Drosophila embryo requires eiger, p53, and loki function
• Identification of a transcription factor in the mosquito‐invasive stage of malaria parasites
• Maternal RNAs encoding transcription factors for germline-specific gene expression in Drosophila embryos.
• Boss/Sev signaling from germline to soma restricts germline-stem-cell-niche formation in the anterior region of Drosophila male gonads.
• MAMO, a maternal BTB/POZ-Zn-finger protein enriched in germline progenitors is required for the production of functional eggs in Drosophila
• Maternal Nanos represses hid/skl-dependent apoptosis to maintain the germ line in Drosophila embryos.
• Expression of meiotic genes in the germline progenitors of Drosophila embryos
• Hundreds of Flagellar Basal Bodies Cover the Cell Surface of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Buchnera aphidicola sp. Strain APS
• Isolation of germline cells from Drosophila embryos by flow cytometry.
• Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera.
• An experimental validation of orphan genes of Buchnera, a symbiont of aphids.
• Accumulation of Species-Specific Amino Acid Replacements That Cause Loss of Particular Protein Functions in Buchnera, an Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont
• Genome sequence of the endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids Buchnera sp. APS