Comprehensive microarray-based analysis for stage-specific larval camouflage pattern-associated genes in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus

The Monarch Butterfly Genome Yields Insights into Long-Distance Migration

(2011) Shuai Zhan et al.   CELL

Convergent, modular expression of ebony and tan in the mimetic wing patterns of Heliconius butterflies

(2011) Laura C. Ferguson et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

(2011) Mathieu Joron et al.   NATURE

Genomic Sequence around Butterfly Wing Development Genes: Annotation and Comparative Analysis

(2011) Inês C. Conceição et al.   PLoS One

optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry

(2011) R. D. Reed et al.   SCIENCE

Expression profile of cuticular genes of silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2010) Jiubo Liang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Disruption of an N-acetyltransferase gene in the silkworm reveals a novel role in pigmentation

(2010) S. Zhan et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Megalin-dependent Yellow endocytosis restricts melanization in the Drosophila cuticle

(2010) F. Riedel et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Species-specific coordinated gene expression and trans-regulation of larval color pattern in three swallowtail butterflies

(2010) Hiroko Shirataki et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Caterpillar color patterns are determined by a two-phase melanin gene prepatterning process: new evidence from tan and laccase2

(2010) Ryo Futahashi et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Laccase2 is required for cuticular pigmentation in stinkbugs

(2010) Ryo Futahashi et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mutations of an Arylalkylamine-N-acetyltransferase,Bm-iAANAT, Are Responsible for Silkworm Melanism Mutant

(2010) Fang-yin Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Evolution of the Insect Yellow Gene Family

(2010) L. C. Ferguson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Repression of tyrosine hydroxylase is responsible for the sex-linked chocolate mutation of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2010) C. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The molecular mechanisms of cuticular melanization: The ecdysone cascade leading to dopa decarboxylase expression in Manduca sexta

(2009) Kiyoshi Hiruma et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Yellow-e Determines the Color Pattern of Larval Head and Tail Spots of the SilkwormBombyx mori

(2009) Katsuhiko Ito et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular and Functional Analyses of Amino Acid Decarboxylases Involved in Cuticle Tanning inTribolium castaneum

(2009) Yasuyuki Arakane et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Intraspecific Polymorphism to Interspecific Divergence: Genetics of Pigmentation in Drosophila

(2009) P. J. Wittkopp et al.   SCIENCE

Wings, Horns, and Butterfly Eyespots: How Do Complex Traits Evolve?

(2009) Antónia Monteiro et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Alternative models for the evolution of eyespots and of serial homology on lepidopteran wings

(2008) Antónia Monteiro   BIOESSAYS

A catalogue of epidermal genes: genes expressed in the epidermis during larval molt of the silkworm Bombyx mori

(2008) Shun Okamoto et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Identification of stage-specific larval camouflage associated genes in the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus

(2008) Ryo Futahashi et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Positional Cloning of a Bombyx Wingless Locus flügellos ( fl ) Reveals a Crucial Role for fringe That Is Specific for Wing Morphogenesis

(2008) Kaoru Sato et al.   GENETICS

yellow and ebony Are the Responsible Genes for the Larval Color Mutants of the Silkworm Bombyx mori

(2008) R. Futahashi et al.   GENETICS

The genome of a lepidopteran model insect, the silkworm Bombyx mori

(2008) The International Silkworm Genome   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genome-wide identification of cuticular protein genes in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2008) Ryo Futahashi et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Insect Juvenile Hormone Binding Protein Shows Ancestral Fold Present in Human Lipid-Binding Proteins

(2008) Robert Kolodziejczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Juvenile Hormone Regulates Butterfly Larval Pattern Switches

(2008) R. Futahashi et al.   SCIENCE

Development and evolution of insect pigmentation: Genetic mechanisms and the potential consequences of pleiotropy

(2008) Patricia J. Wittkopp et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Gene expression underlying adaptive variation in Heliconius wing patterns: non-modular regulation of overlapping cinnabar and vermilion prepatterns

(2007) R. D Reed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES