Susumu Katsuma

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• Non-gonadal somatic piRNA pathways ensure sexual differentiation, larval growth, and wing development in silkworms
• Masculinizer is not post-transcriptionally regulated by female-specific piRNAs during sex determination in the Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis
• The piRNA cluster torimochi is an expanding transposon in cultured silkworm cells
• A Wolbachia factor for male killing in lepidopteran insects
• The two Gtsf paralogs in silkworms orthogonally activate their partner PIWI proteins for target cleavage
• H3K4me3 histone modification in baculovirus-infected silkworm cells
• CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of Ago2 and Siwi in silkworm cultured cells
• Potential for small RNA production against Bombyx mori latent virus in Bombyx mori ovaries
• Whole-genome sequencing and comparative transcriptome analysis of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus La strain
• Zucchini consensus motifs determine the mechanism of pre-piRNA production
• Masc-induced dosage compensation in silkworm cultured cells
• In vivo masculinizing function of the Ostrinia furnacalis Masculinizer gene
• Transcriptome profiling reveals infection strategy of an insect maculavirus
• Artificial ``ping-pong'' cascade of PIWI-interacting RNA in silkworm cells
• Identification and Functional Analysis of the Pre-piRNA 3' Trimmer in Silkworms
• Is the expression of sense and antisense transgenes really sufficient for artificial piRNA production?
• The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Selectively Kills Male Hosts by Targeting the Masculinizing Gene
• Sexually biased transcripts at early embryonic stages of the silkworm depend on the sex chromosome constitution
• 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