Publications

Original Papers

*Corresponding author, #Equally contributed

1. Tomihara K*, Llopart A, & Yamamoto D* (2024). A chromosome-level genome assembly of Drosophila madeirensis, a fruit fly species endemic to the island of Madeira. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.21.581469

2. Fukui T#, Kiuch T#, Tomihara K#, Muro T, Matsuda‐Imai N, & Katsuma S* (2024). Expression of the Wolbachia male‐killing factor Oscar impairs dosage compensation in lepidopteran embryos. FEBS Letters, 598, 331-337. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.14777

3. Tomihara K* & Kiuchi T* (2023). Disruption of a BTB-ZF transcription factor causes female sterility and melanization in the larval body of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 159, 103982.  doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.103982
   bioRxiv: 10.1101/2023.04.01.535244

4. Tomihara K*, Tanaka S, Katsuma S, Shimada T, Kobayashi J, & Kiuchi T* (2023). Recessive embryonic lethal mutations uncovered in heterozygous condition in silkworm semiconsomic strains. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 155, 103933.  doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2023.103933
   bioRxiv: 10.1101/2022.12.22.521575

5. Tomihara K, Katsuma S*, & Kiuchi T* (2022). Transcriptome analysis in the silkworm Bombyx mori overexpressing piRNA-resistant Masculinizer gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 616(6), 104-109.  doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.05.073
   bioRxiv: 10.1101/2022.05.13.491740

6. Tomihara K*, Andolfatto P, & Kiuchi T* (2022). Allele-specific knockouts reveal a role for apontic-like in the evolutionary loss of larval pigmentation in the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Molecular Biology, 31(6), 701-710. doi: 10.1111/imb.12797
   bioRxiv: 10.1101/2022.05.07.490996

7. Tomihara K#, Kawamoto M, Suzuki Y, Katsuma S*, & Kiuchi T*# (2022). Masculinizer-induced dosage compensation is achieved by transcriptional downregulation of both copies of Z-linked genes in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Biology Letters, 18(9), 20220116. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0116
   bioRxiv: 10.1101/2022.03.06.483149 

8. Tomihara K, Satta K, Matsuzaki S, Yoshitake K, Yamamoto K, Uchiyama H, Yajima S, Futahashi R, Katsuma S, Osanai-Futahashi M*, & Kiuchi T* (2021). Mutations in a β-group of solute carrier gene are responsible for egg and eye coloration of the brown egg 4 (b-4) mutant in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 137, 103624. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103624
   bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.22.436376 

9. Tomihara K, Satta K, Shimada T, & Kiuchi T* (2019). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated somatic mutation of the sex-linked translucent (os) gene in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology, 88(2), 31-38. doi: 10.11416/jibs.88.2_031 

Others

1. 富原健太, 木内隆史 (2022). カイコ突然変異体を利用して昆虫の色を理解する −体色形成にかかわるトランスポーターの同定− 蚕糸・昆虫バイオテック 91(2) 91-103. doi: 10.11416/konchubiotec.91.2_091 (総説) (Review, in Japanese)