The piRNA cluster torimochi is an expanding transposon in cultured silkworm cells

• Keisuke Shoji ,

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

  * E-mail: kshoji@iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp (K.S); tomari@iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Y.T)

  Affiliation Laboratory of RNA Function, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-654X

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• Yusuke Umemura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4706-0620

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• Susumu Katsuma,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yukihide Tomari

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kshoji@iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp (K.S); tomari@iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Y.T)

  Affiliations Laboratory of RNA Function, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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