Toru Shimada

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 construction of an EST database for <i>Bombyx mori</i> and its application

Kazuei Mita, Mitsuoki Morimyo, Kazuhiro Okano et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 257 citations · Full text

<i>Non-molting glossy</i>/<i>shroud</i> encodes a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase that functions in the ‘Black Box’ of the ecdysteroid biosynthesis pathway

Ryusuke Niwa, Toshiki Namiki, Katsuhiko Ito et al. · Development · 2010 · 187 citations

Aldo-keto Reductase, Genetics, Entomology +20

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

Takaaki Daimon, Toshinori Kozaki, Ryusuke Niwa et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2012 · 177 citations · Full text

Biology, Juvenile Hormone–deficient Mutant, Developmental Biology +15