Shinpei Kawaoka

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• Silkworm HP1a transcriptionally enhances highly expressed euchromatic genes via association with their transcription start sites
• A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm
• Characterization of a novel chromodomain-containing gene from the silkworm, Bombyx mori
• The comprehensive epigenome map of piRNA clusters