Ken Sahara

TL;DR: The results, which confirm and extend earlier observations, suggest that (TTAGG)n was a phylogenetically ancestral telomere motif in the insect lineage but was lost independently in different groups, being replaced probably by other telomeres motifs.

TL;DR: The sex chromosome system is being exploited in economically important species and special strains have been devised for mass rearing of male-only broods in the silkworm for higher silk production and in pest species for the release of sterile males in pest management programs.

TL;DR: E ectopic recombination is proposed, i.e., homologous recombination between repetitive sequences of non-homologous chromosomes, as a primary motive force in rDNA repatterning.

TL;DR: It is suggested that this Z–autosome fusion brought two major genes conferring insecticide resistance and clusters of genes involved in detoxification of plant secondary metabolites under sex-linked inheritance to the tortricid moths and thus contributed to their radiation and subsequent speciation.

TL;DR: In a subsequent analysis of the properties needed for infection using a marker gene, egfp (enhanced green fluorescent protein gene), inserted into the polyhedrin locus, the knockout viruses (KOVs) were subdivided into four phenotypic types, A to D.