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Munetaka Kawamoto

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Active since

2013

Affiliations

The University of Tokyo(Current)

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Utsunomiya University

Kyushu University

Munetaka Kawamoto is an author at The University of Tokyo specializing in life sciences, genetics, and insect genetics.

Publications per year

2013–2023

18

Publications

18

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

Takashi Kiuchi, Hikaru Koga, Munetaka Kawamoto et al. · Nature · 2014 · 542 citations

Life Sciences, Entomology, Genetics +13

High-quality genome assembly of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Munetaka Kawamoto, Akiya Jouraku, Atsushi Toyoda et al. · Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2019 · 324 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +12

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

Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji et al. · PLoS Pathogens · 2015 · 133 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Entomology +14

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

Aruni P. Senaratne, Héloïse Muller, Kelsey A. Fryer et al. · Current Biology · 2020 · 64 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +12

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 · 49 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +14

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