Precise staging of beetle horn formation in Trypoxylus dichotomus reveals the pleiotropic roles of doublesex depending on the spatiotemporal developmental …

S Morita, T Ando, A Maeno, T Mizutani, M Mase… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… in sexually dimorphic horn formation during larval-… horn formation to form sexually dimorphic
horns during development remains elusive. To address this issue, we identified a Trypoxylus

Recent advances in understanding horn formation in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus using next-generation sequencing technology

S Morita, K Sakura, H Gotoh, DJ Emlen… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2022 - Elsevier
horn formation in Trypoxylus dichotomus. They revealed that the sex-determination pathway,
insulin signaling pathway, and Fat/Hippo signaling pathway are involved in horn formation. …

The Fat-Dachsous signaling pathway regulates growth of horns in Trypoxylus dichotomus, but does not affect horn allometry

J Hust, MD Lavine, AM Worthington, R Zinna… - Journal of insect …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Based on these results, RNAi against ft changes the formation of the epicuticular microstructure
in the head horn. Further, these results indicate that ft regulates the shape of underlying …

Evolution of horn length and lifting strength in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus

JN Weber, W Kojima, RP Boisseau, T Niimi, S Morita… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
… Both increases in horn length were associated with dramatic reductions to horn lifting … initial
reductions to horn strength were later ameliorated in some populations through reductions to …

… sexually dimorphic beetle horn formation by integrating spatial and temporal developmental contexts in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus

S Morita, T Ando, A Maeno, T Mizutani, M Mase… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
… in sexually dimorphic horn formation during larval-… horn formation to form sexually dimorphic
horns during development remains elusive. To address this issue, we identified a Trypoxylus

The draft genome sequence of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis towards an understanding of horn formation

S Morita, TF Shibata, T Nishiyama, Y Kobayashi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
dichotomus has been used as a research model in various … We focused on the genes
related to horn formation and … dichotomus horn formation have been described in depth 19 …

Complex furrows in a 2D epithelial sheet code the 3D structure of a beetle horn

K Matsuda, H Gotoh, Y Tajika, T Sushida, H Aonuma… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
… the 3D shape of the horn of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, can be
… However, in the case of beetle horn formation, we only need to focus on two events, which …

Rhinoceros beetle horn development reveals deep parallels with dung beetles

T Ohde, S Morita, S Shigenobu, J Morita… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… Here we unveil 11 horn formation genes in a rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus. …
horn formation, suggesting the same suite of genes was recruited in each lineage during …

Variation in an Extreme Weapon: Horn Performance Differences across Rhinoceros Beetle (Trypoxylus dichotomus) Populations

B Buchalski, E Gutierrez, D Emlen, L Lavine… - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Two hundred and nine Trypoxylus dichotomus beetles were captured in the field during
July and August, 2016 and 2017. The sample included sixty beetles from Puli, Taiwan (2403′…

[PDF][PDF] Functional Analyses of Fat Signaling Genes During Exaggerated Horn Growth in the Asian Rhinoceros Beetle Trypoxylus Dichotomus (Coleoptera …

JA Hust - 2015 - rex.libraries.wsu.edu
In this study, I investigated fat function during exaggerated head horn growth in the Asian
rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, by RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a useful tool to …