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Cis-regulatory evolution of Wnt family genes contributes to a morphological difference between silkworm species
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Kenta Tomihara ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Kenta Tomihara, Ana Pinharanda
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Ana Pinharanda ,
Contributed equally to this work with: Kenta Tomihara, Ana Pinharanda
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Young Mi Kwon,
Roles Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Andrew M. Taverner,
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Laura S. Kors,
Roles Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliation Department of Biology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Matthew L. Aardema,
Roles Formal analysis, Investigation
Affiliations Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biology, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America
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Julia C. Holder,
Roles Formal analysis
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Lin Poyraz,
Roles Formal analysis
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Takashi Kiuchi ,
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: pa2543@columbia.edu (PA); kiuchi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)
¶‡ These authors co-supervised this work.
Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Peter Andolfatto
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: pa2543@columbia.edu (PA); kiuchi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK)
¶‡ These authors co-supervised this work.
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Cis-regulatory evolution of Wnt family genes contributes to a morphological difference between silkworm species
- Kenta Tomihara,
- Ana Pinharanda,
- Young Mi Kwon,
- Andrew M. Taverner,
- Laura S. Kors,
- Matthew L. Aardema,
- Julia C. Holder,
- Lin Poyraz,
- Takashi Kiuchi,
- Peter Andolfatto
- Published: March 10, 2026
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003605
- See the preprint