A specific type of insulin-like peptide regulates the conditional growth of a beetle weapon

• Yasukazu Okada ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: okayasukazu@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4528-2980

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• Masako Katsuki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Naoki Okamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

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• Haruna Fujioka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, Department of General Systems studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-6160

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• Kensuke Okada

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

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