Genome evolution and divergence in cis-regulatory architecture is associated with condition-responsive development in horned dung beetles

PL Davidson, AP Moczek - Plos Genetics, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Phenotypic plasticity is thought to be an important driver of diversification and adaptation to
environmental variation, yet the genomic mechanisms mediating plastic trait development …

RNA Interference Method for Gene Function Analysis in the Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus

K Sakura, S Morita, T Niimi - Bio-protocol, 2022 - bio-protocol.org
In the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus, various candidate genes
required for a specific phenotype of interest are listed by next-generation sequencing …

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
Highlights•A high-quality T. dichotomus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastini) genome has
been assembled.•RNAi screening using RNA-seq analysis has revealed several genes …