Publications

(2020). Kleptoprotein bioluminescence: Parapriacanthus fish obtain luciferase from ostracod prey.. Science advances.

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(2019). Transcriptomic changes during caste development through social interactions in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis.. Ecology and evolution.

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(2019). Transcriptomic analysis reveals differences in the regulation of amino acid metabolism in asexual and sexual planarians.. Scientific reports.

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(2019). Termite soldier mandibles are elongated by dachshund under hormonal and Hox gene controls.. Development (Cambridge, England).

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(2019). Precise staging of beetle horn formation in Trypoxylus dichotomus reveals the pleiotropic roles of doublesex depending on the spatiotemporal developmental contexts.. PLoS genetics.

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(2019). Global Shifts in Gene Expression Profiles Accompanied with Environmental Changes in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Endosymbiosis.. G3 (Bethesda, Md.).

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(2019). Exaggeration and cooption of innate immunity for social defense. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2019). Duplication and soldier-specific expression of geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase genes in a nasute termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis.. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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(2019). Comparative cytology, physiology and transcriptomics of Burkholderia insecticola in symbiosis with the bean bug Riptortus pedestris and in culture.. The ISME journal.

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(2019). Antimicrobial Activities of Cysteine-rich Peptides Specific to Bacteriocytes of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.. Microbes and environments / JSME.

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(2019). A draft genome assembly of the solar-powered sea slug Elysia chlorotica.. Scientific data.

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(2019). A comprehensive reference transcriptome resource for the Iberian ribbed newt Pleurodeles waltl, an emerging model for developmental and regeneration biology.. DNA Research.

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(2018). The mycoheterotrophic symbiosis between orchids and mycorrhizal fungi possesses major components shared with mutualistic plant-mycorrhizal symbioses.. Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI.

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(2018). The genome of Rhizophagus clarus HR1 reveals a common genetic basis for auxotrophy among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.. BMC genomics.

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(2018). TGFβ signaling related genes are involved in hormonal mediation during termite soldier differentiation.. PLoS genetics.

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(2018). Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles.. PLoS genetics.

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(2018). Repeated inversions within a pannier intron drive diversification of intraspecific colour patterns of ladybird beetles.. Nature communications.

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(2018). Parallel and gradual genome erosion in the Blattabacterium endosymbionts of Mastotermes darwiniensis and Cryptocercus wood roaches.. Genome biology and evolution.

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(2018). Molecular Basis of White Adipose Tissue Remodeling That Precedes and Coincides With Hibernation in the Syrian Hamster, a Food-Storing Hibernator.. Frontiers in physiology.

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(2018). Genomic Insight into Symbiosis-Induced Insect Color Change by a Facultative Bacterial Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis".. mBio.

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(2018). Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles.. eLife.

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(2018). Evidence of non-tandemly repeated rDNAs and their intragenomic heterogeneity in Rhizophagus irregularis. Communications Biology.

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(2018). Caste-specific microRNA expression in termites: insights into soldier differentiation. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2018). Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complex allows direct and rapid analysis of coding and noncoding regions of target genes in Pleurodeles waltl development and regeneration.. Developmental biology.

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(2018). A lipocalin protein, Neural Lazarillo, is key to social interactions that promote termite soldier differentiation.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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(2017). Transcriptome sequencing and estimation of DNA methylation level in the subsocial wood-feeding cockroach <Emphasis Type="Italic">Cryptocercus punctulatus</Emphasis> (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology.

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(2017). Transcriptome profiling of the spermatheca identifies genes potentially involved in the long-term sperm storage of ant queens.. Scientific reports.

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(2017). Transcriptome characterization of male accessory glands in ants to identify molecules involved in their reproductive success.. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2017). Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2017). Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts through Antimicrobial Peptides.. Trends in Microbiology.

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(2017). Conserved role of Ovo in germline development in mouse and Drosophila.. Scientific reports.

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(2017). 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.. Molecular ecology.

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(2017). Comparative analysis of the brain transcriptome in a hyper-aggressive fruit fly, Drosophila prolongata.. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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(2016). Expression of genes involved in the uptake of inorganic carbon in the gill of a deep-sea vesicomyid clam harboring intracellular thioautotrophic bacteria.. Gene.

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(2016). Experimental Approach Reveals the Role of alx1 in the Evolution of the Echinoderm Larval Skeleton.. PLoS ONE.

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(2015). Cockroach GABAB receptor subtypes: molecular characterization, pharmacological properties and tissue distribution.. Neuropharmacology.

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(2015). Antennal RNA-sequencing analysis reveals evolutionary aspects of chemosensory proteins in the carpenter ant, Camponotus japonicus.. Scientific reports.

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(2014). Whole-Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. Strain RPE67, a Bacterial Gut Symbiont of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris.. Genome announcements.

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(2014). The evolutionary history of termites as inferred from 66 mitochondrial genomes.. Molecular biology and evolution.

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(2014). Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host's Ecological Adaptation.. Current biology : CB.

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(2014). Comparison of gene expression of Paramecium bursaria with and without Chlorella variabilis symbionts.. BMC genomics.

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(2014). Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge.. Nature communications.

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(2013). TOO MUCH LOVE, a Novel Kelch Repeat-Containing F-box Protein, Functions in the Long-Distance Regulation of the Legume–Rhizobium Symbiosis. Plant and Cell Physiology.

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(2013). The draft genomes of soft-shell turtle and green sea turtle yield insights into the development and evolution of the turtle-specific body plan.. Nature genetics.

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(2013). Noncanonical expression of caudal during early embryogenesis in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: maternal cad-driven posterior development is not conserved.. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2013). Maintenance of essential amino acid synthesis pathways in the Blattabacterium cuenoti symbiont of a wood-feeding cockroach. Biology Letters.

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(2013). Construction and Characterization of Normalized cDNA Libraries by 454 Pyrosequencing and Estimation of DNA Methylation Levels in Three Distantly Related Termite Species. PLoS ONE.

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(2013). Complete Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. Strain RPE64, Bacterial Symbiont of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris. Genome Announcements.

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(2013). Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont.. Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society.

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(2012). Sexual and asexual oogenesis require the expression of unique and shared sets of genes in the insect Acyrthosiphon pisum. BMC Genomics.

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(2012). Exploration and characterization of genes involved in the synthesis of diterpene defence secretion in nasute termite soldiers.. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2011). Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont.. Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS.

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(2011). Genome expansion and differential expression of amino acid transporters at the aphid/Buchnera symbiotic interface.. Molecular biology and evolution.

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(2010). Transcription factor AP2-Sp and its target genes in malarial sporozoites.. Molecular Microbiology.

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(2010). Sugar transporters of the major facilitator superfamily in aphids; from gene prediction to functional characterization. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2010). Non-molting glossy/shroud encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the ‘Black Box’ of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway. Development.

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(2010). Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum.. PLoS biology.

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(2010). Comprehensive survey of developmental genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: frequent lineage‐specific duplications and losses of developmental genes. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2010). Chitinase‐like proteins encoded in the genome of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2010). AphidBase: a centralized bioinformatic resource for annotation of the pea aphid genome. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2010). Anterior development in the parthenogenetic and viviparous form of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: hunchback and orthodenticle expression. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2010). A full‐length cDNA resource for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Insect Molecular Biology.

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(2009). Identification of a transcription factor in the mosquito‐invasive stage of malaria parasites. Molecular Microbiology.

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(2009). Expression of the apoptosis inducer gene head involution defective in primordial germ cells of the Drosophila embryo requires eiger, p53, and loki function. Development, Growth & Differentiation.

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(2009). Expression of genes involved in sumoylation in the Drosophila germline.. Gene expression patterns : GEP.

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(2008). Maternal RNAs encoding transcription factors for germline-specific gene expression in Drosophila embryos.. The International journal of developmental biology.

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(2007). Maternal Nanos represses hid/skl-dependent apoptosis to maintain the germ line in Drosophila embryos.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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(2007). MAMO, a maternal BTB/POZ-Zn-finger protein enriched in germline progenitors is required for the production of functional eggs in Drosophila. Mechanisms of Development.

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(2007). Boss/Sev signaling from germline to soma restricts germline-stem-cell-niche formation in the anterior region of Drosophila male gonads.. Developmental cell.

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(2006). Molecular characterization of embryonic gonads by gene expression profiling in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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(2006). Isolation of germline cells from Drosophila embryos by flow cytometry.. Development, growth & differentiation.

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(2006). Hundreds of Flagellar Basal Bodies Cover the Cell Surface of the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Buchnera aphidicola sp. Strain APS. Journal of Bacteriology.

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(2006). Expression of meiotic genes in the germline progenitors of Drosophila embryos. Gene Expression Patterns.

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(2005). Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

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(2002). An experimental validation of orphan genes of Buchnera, a symbiont of aphids.. Biochemical and biophysical research communications.

(2001). Accumulation of Species-Specific Amino Acid Replacements That Cause Loss of Particular Protein Functions in Buchnera, an Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont. Journal of molecular evolution.

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(2000). Genome sequence of the endocellular bacterial symbiont of aphids Buchnera sp. APS. Nature.

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