Sex-specific expression profiles of ecdysteroid biosynthesis and ecdysone response genes in extreme sexual dimorphism of the mealybug Planococcus kraunhiae (Kuwana)

• Miyuki Muramatsu,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  ⨯
• Tomohiro Tsuji,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  ⨯
• Sayumi Tanaka,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Current address: Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Koshi, Japan

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  ⨯
• Takahiro Shiotsuki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan

  ⨯
• Akiya Jouraku,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan

  ⨯
• Ken Miura,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  ⨯
• Isabelle Mifom Vea,

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

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9351-7970

  ⨯
• Chieka Minakuchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c_mina@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Graduate School of Bio-Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7992-9565

  ⨯