Non-gonadal somatic piRNA pathways ensure sexual differentiation, larval growth, and wing development in silkworms

• Takashi Kiuchi ,

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

  * E-mail: kiuchi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); skatsuma@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3616-1650

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• Keisuke Shoji,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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

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• Natsuko Izumi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0065-9257

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• Yukihide Tomari,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-0851

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• Susumu Katsuma

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

  * E-mail: kiuchi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TK); skatsuma@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (SK)

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7096-3038

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