Toru Shimada

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• In vivo masculinizing function of the Ostrinia furnacalis Masculinizer gene
• Artificial ``ping-pong'' cascade of PIWI-interacting RNA in silkworm cells
• 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