Munetaka Kawamoto

A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm

Takashi Kiuchi, Hikaru Koga, Munetaka Kawamoto et al. · Nature · 2014 · 511 citations

Biology, Sex Determination, Primary Determiner +14

High-quality genome assembly of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Munetaka Kawamoto, Akiya Jouraku, Atsushi Toyoda et al. · Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2019 · 313 citations · Full text

Biology, Long-read Sequencing, Sequencing +15

The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Selectively Kills Male Hosts by Targeting the Masculinizing Gene

Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji et al. · PLoS Pathogens · 2015 · 131 citations · Full text

Biology, Wolbachia-infected Embryos, Masculinizing Gene +15

Formation of the CenH3-Deficient Holocentromere in Lepidoptera Avoids Active Chromatin

Aruni P. Senaratne, Héloïse Muller, Kelsey A. Fryer et al. · Current Biology · 2020 · 61 citations · Full text

Chromatin, Chromatin Structure, Chromatin Remodeling +10

Identification and functional analysis of a <i>Masculinizer</i> orthologue in <i>Trilocha varians</i> (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae)

Jung Lee, Takashi Kiuchi, Munetaka Kawamoto et al. · Insect Molecular Biology · 2015 · 48 citations