Microhomology-mediated end-joining-dependent integration of donor DNA in cells and animals using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9

Shota Nakade, Takuya Tsubota, Yuto Sakane, +8

Nature Communications

Knockout silkworms reveal a dispensable role for juvenile hormones in holometabolous life cycle

Takaaki Daimon, Miwa Uchibori‐Asano, Hajime Nakao, +2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Precocious Metamorphosis in the Juvenile Hormone–Deficient Mutant of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori

Takaaki Daimon, Toshinori Kozaki, Ryusuke Niwa, +13

PLoS Genetics

BiologyJuvenile Hormone–deficient MutantDevelopmental BiologyDevelopmental GeneticsGenetics +13

<i>yellow</i> and <i>ebony</i> Are the Responsible Genes for the Larval Color Mutants of the Silkworm <i>Bombyx mori</i>

Ryo Futahashi, Jotaro Sato, Yan Meng, +11

Genetics

Bombyx Linkage MapGeneticsMolecular GeneticsGenomicsResponsible Genes +17

Importance of juvenile hormone signaling arises with competence of insect larvae to metamorphose

Vlastimil Smýkal, Takaaki Daimon, Takumi Kayukawa, +3

Developmental Biology

BiologyPheromone BiochemistryDevelopmental BiologyInsect LarvaeMedicine +5

The silkworm <i>Green b</i> locus encodes a quercetin 5- <i>O</i> -glucosyltransferase that produces green cocoons with UV-shielding properties

Takaaki Daimon, Chikara Hirayama, Masatoshi Kanai, +7

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

β-Fructofuranosidase Genes of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori

Takaaki Daimon, Tomohiro Taguchi, Yan Meng, +3

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Large Scale Full-Length cDNA Sequencing Reveals a Unique Genomic Landscape in a Lepidopteran Model Insect, <i>Bombyx mori</i>

Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Ryo Futahashi, Hiroyuki Kanamori, +33

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Comparative GenomicsGeneticsEntomologyMolecular GeneticsGenomics +14

DIPA-CRISPR is a simple and accessible method for insect gene editing

Yu Shirai, Maria‐Dolors Piulachs, Xavier Bellés, +1

Cell Reports Methods

A Bombyx mori gene, BmChi-h, encodes a protein homologous to bacterial and baculovirus chitinases

Takaaki Daimon, Koutaro HAMADA, Kazuei Mita, +4

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

PathogenesisBacteriophageMolecular BiologyVirologyBaculovirus Chitinases +5