Transcriptomic and functional screening of weapon formation genes implies significance of cell adhesion molecules and female-biased genes in broad-horned flour beetle

• Miyu Sugiyama,

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

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

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• Takane Ozawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kunihiro Ohta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kensuke Okada,

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

  Affiliation Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima-naka, Okayama, Japan

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• Teruyuki Niimi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan, Basic Biology Program, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan

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• Katsushi Yamaguchi,

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

  Affiliation National Institute for Basic Biology, Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan

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• Shuji Shigenobu,

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

  Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan, Basic Biology Program, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Nishigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan

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• Yasukazu Okada

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

  * E-mail: okayasukazu@gmail.com

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

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

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