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1. Toru Shimada, Masahiko Kobayshi and Narumi Yoshitake (Dec.,1985)
Genetical analysis of storage proteins in the silkworm, Bombyx mori.
Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan, vol.54, no.6, pp.464-469.
(In Japanese with English summary)
2. Toru Shimada, Masahiko Kobayshi, Masao Nagata and Naruni Yoshitake (Dec.,1985) Properties of variants of storage proteins in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan, vol.54, no.6, pp.740-475. (In Japanese with English summary)
3. Yutaka Kawaguchi, Yutaka Banno, Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (June,1986) Linkage studies on the storage protein-2 gene (Pst) in Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan, vol.55, no.3, pp.243-245. (In Japanese with English summary)
4. Toru Shimada, Hiroyasu Ebinuma and Masahiko Kobayashi (Dec.,1986) Expression of homeotic genes in Bombyx mori estimated from asymmetry of dorsal closure in mutant/normal mosaics. Journal of Experimental Zoology, vol.240, no.3, pp.335-342 .
5. Toru Shimada, Masao Nagata and Narumi Yoshitake (Nov.,1987) Characterization of arylphorin of the eri-silkmoth, Samia cynthia ricini (Donovan) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, vol.22, no.4, pp.543-552 .
6. Toru Shimada, Hideo Yamauchi and Masahiko Kobayshi (May,1988) Diapause of the inter-specific F1 hybrids between Antheraea yamamai (Guerin-Meneville) and A. pernyi (G.-M.) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology, vol.32, no.2, pp.120-125. (In Japanese with English summary)
7. Hiroyasu Ebinuma, Masahiko Kobayashi, Jun Kobayashi, Toru Shimada and Narumi Yoshitake (June,1988) The detection of mosaics and polyploids in a hereditary mosaic strain of the silk moth, Bombyx mori, using egg colour mutants. Genetical Research (Cambridge), vol.51, no.3, pp. 223-229
8. Noriaki Agui, Toru Shimada, Susumu Izumi and Shiro Tomino (May,1991) Hormonal control of vitellogenin mRNA levels in the male and female housefly, Musca domestica. Journal of Insect Physiology, vol.37, no.5, pp.383-390 .
9. Toru Shimada and Yuko Sasaki (Oct.,1991) Sequence of 5.8S ribosomal RNA of the mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus. Nucleic Acids Research, vol.19, no.19, pp.5435 .
10.Yuko Sasaki, Miharu Shintani, Toru Shimada, Haruo Watanabe and Tsuguo Sasaki (Jan.,1992) Detection and discrimination of Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma pneumoniae by in vitro DNA amplification. Microbiology and Immunology, vol.36, no.1, pp.21-27 .
11. Toru Shimada (Feb.,1992) Distribution of split 5.8S ribosomal RNA in Diptera. Insect Molecular Biology. 1 (1): 45-48 .
12. Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (Mar.,1992) Fertility of F1 Hybrids between Antheraea yamamai (Guerin-Meneville) and Antheraea pernyi (G.-M.). Wild Silkmoths '91 (Edited by H. Akai, Y. Kato, M. Kiuchi and J. Kobayashi), International Society of Wild Silkmoths, pp.186-195 .
13. Toru Shimada, Jun Kobayshi, Tamotsu Miyata, Masao Nagata and Masahiko Kobayashi (May,1992) Immunological comparison of arylphorins among species belonging to Saturniidae and Bombycidae by immunodiffusion analyses. Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology. 26 (2): 119-126. (In Japanese with English summary)
14. Wei jun Hu, Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayshi (June,1992) Developmental changes in electrophoretic patterns of sericin in the silkgland of Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 61 (3): 41-48. (In Japanese with English summary)
15. Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (Oct.,1992) Homeotic transformation in ENk mutant cells is not affected by neighboring normal cells in genetic mosaics of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 61 (5): 444-450 .
16. Hiroaki Abe, Kaori Kobayashi, Toru Shimada, Takeshi Yokoyama, Susumu Maeda, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayashi (Oct.,1993) Escape from the viral death of the mosaic silkworm, Bombyx mori, infected/noninfected with densonucleosis virus type-2. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 62 (5): 367-375. (In Japanese with English summary)
17. Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Kaori Kobayashi, Susumu Maeda, Takeshi Yokoyama, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayashi (1993) Detection of densonucleosis viruses from feces of Bombyx mori by PCR. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 62 (5): 376-381. (In Japanese with English summary)
18. Toru Shimada, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kayoko Matsumoto, Noriaki Agui and Masahiko Kobayashi (July,1994) Polymorphism and linkage analysis of the prothoracicotropic hormone gene in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. Genetical Research (Cambridge) 63 (4): 190-195 .
19. Taeko Narumi, Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (Aug.,1994) The fine structure of cocoon filaments in wild silkmoths, Loepa katinka sakaei Inoue. International Journal of Wild Silkmoth and Silk. 1 (1): 22-25 .
20. Toru Shimada, I-Chang Chan, Youko Noguchi, Masao Nagata and Masahiko Kobayashi (Oct.,1994) Structural and functional abnormality of the polyhedrin gene in a polyhedron-deficient mutant of the Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 62 (5): (In Japanese with English summary).
21. Youko Noguchi, Masahiko Kobayashi and Toru Shimada (Oct.,1994) An application of the polymerase chain reaction for practical diagnosis of the nuclear polyhedrosis in large-scale culture of Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 63 (5): 399-406.(In Japanese with English summary)
22. Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Takeshi Yokoyama, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayshi (Feb.,1995) Identification of random amplified polymorphic DNA on the W chromosome in the C137 strain of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 64 (1): 19-22. (In Japanese with English summary)
23. Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Takeshi Yokoyama, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayashi (June, 1995) Identification of random amplified polymorphic DNA linked to the densonucleosis virus type-1 susceptible gene of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 64 (3): 262-264. (In Japanese with English summary)
24. Youko Noguchi, Masahiko Kobayashi and Toru Shimada (Aug.,1995) An improved method for PCR detection of the nuclear polyhedrosis virus in Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 64 (4): 352-359. (In Japanese with English summary)
25. Waraporn Pinyarat, Toru Shimada, Wei-Hua Xu, Yukihiro Sato, Okitsugu Yamashita and Masahiko Kobayashi (June, 1995) Linkage analysis of the gene encoding precursor protein of diapause hormone and pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori. Genetical Research (Cambridge) 65 (2): 105-111.
26. Amornrat Promboon, Toru Shimada, Haruhiko Fujiwara and Masahiko Kobayashi (Aug., 1995) Linkage map of random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genetical Research (Cambridge). 66 (1): 1-7.
27. Toru Shimada, Yasuyuki Kurimoto and Masahiko Kobayashi (Sep.,1995) Phylogenetic relationship of silkmoths inferred from sequence data of the arylphorin gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 4 (3): 223-234.
28. Sugihiko Hoshizaki and Toru Shimada (Dec.,1995) PCR-based detection of Wolbachia, cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms, infected in natural papulations of Laodelphax striatellus (Homoptera: Delphacidae) in central Japan: Has the distribution of Wolbachia spread recently? Insect Molecular Biology. 4 (4): 237-243 .
29. Hiroaki Abe, Fumi Obayashi, Tae Harada, Toru Shimada, Takeshi Yokoyama, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toshikazu Oshiki (June,1996) An application of DNA diagnosis method for stock preservation of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: a case of preservation of the susceptible strain to densonucleosis virus type-1. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 65 (3): 196-200. (In Japanese with English summary)
30. Fumi Ohbayashi, Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Shinya Kawai, Takeshi Yokoyama, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayashi (Oct.,1996) A common random amplified polymorphic DNA in the silkworm, Bombyx mori is shared by W chromosomes onto which the normal marking, Sable and Black genes are translocated respectively. Journal of Sericultural Science of Japan. 65 (5): 395-398. (In Japanese)
31. Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Shinya Kawai, Fumi Ohbayashi, Tae Harada, Takeshi Yokoyama, Toshikazu Oshiki and Masahiko Kobayashi (Nov.,1996) Nucleotide sequence of the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) on the W chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 31 (4): 633-637.
32. Takashi Tomita, Yoshiaki Kono and Toru Shimada (Dec.,1996) Chromosomal localization of amplified esterase genes in insecticide resistant Culex mosquitoes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 26 (8-9): 853-857.
33. Youko Noguchi and Toru Shimada (1996) Distinction of Bombyx nuclear polyhedrosis virus from other viruses from wild insects by the method of polymerase chain reaction. Bulletin of the Saitama Sericultural Experiment Station 68: 19-24. (In Japanese)
34. Masataka G. Suzuki, Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (1998) Absence of dosage compensation at the transcription level of a sex-linked gene in a female heterogametic insect, Bombyx mori. Heredity 81 (3): 275-283.
35. Hiroaki Abe, Tae Harada, Mariko Kanehara, Toru Shimada, Fumi Ohbayashi, and Toshikazu Oshiki (1998) Genetic mapping of RAPD markers linked to the densonucleosis refractoriness gene, nsd-1, in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genes and Genetic Systems 73 (4): 237-242.
36. Hiroaki Abe, Mariko Kanehara, Tomoko Terada, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, Shinya Kawai, Masataka Suzuki, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, and Toshikazu Oshiki (1998) Identification of novel random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) on the W chromosome of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori, and the wild silkworm, B. mandarina, and their retrotransposable element-related nucleotide sequences. Genes and Genetic Systems 73 (4): 243-254. 37. Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Shinya Kawai, Kazuei Mita, Toshikazu Oshiki, and Hiroaki Abe (1998) Molecular structure of the copia-like retrotransposable element Yokozuna on the W chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genes and Genetic Systems 73 (6): 345-352.
38. Rong Cheng, Toru Shimada and Yasuo Ukai (1998) Estimation of the position, effect and action mode of a semi-lethal factor locus on a DNA polymorphism linkage map in silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genes and Genetic Systems 73 (6): 337-343.
39. Hiroaki Abe, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Shinya Kawai, and Toshikazu Oshiki (1998) A complete full-length non-LTR retrotransposon, BMC1, on the W chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genes and Genetic Systems 73 (6):353-358.
40. Masataka G. Suzuki, Toru Shimada and Masahiko Kobayashi (1999) Bm kettin, a homologue of the Drosophila kettin gene, is located on the Z chromosome in Bombyx mori and is not dosage compensated. Heredity 82 (2): 170-179.
41. Masataka G. Suzuki, Tomoko Terada, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (1999) Diapause-associated transcription of BmEts, a gene encoding an ETS transcription factor homolog in Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 29 (4): 339-347.
42. Masataka G. Suzuki, Toru Shimada, Takeshi Yokoyama, and Masahiko Kobayashi (1999) The influence of triploidy on gene expression in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Heredity 82 (6): 661-667.
43. Susumu Katsuma, Youko Noguchi, Toru Shimada, Masao Nagata, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Susumu Maeda (1999) Molecular characterization of the baculovirus Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus polyhedron mutants. Archives of Virology 144 (7): 1275-1285.
44. Toyoshi Yoshiga, Kazuhiro Okano, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, and Shogo Matsumoto (2000) cDNA cloning of acyl-CoA desaturase homologs in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Gene 246 (1-2): 339-345 .
45. Hiroaki Abe, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Mariko Kanehara, Toru Shimada, Sumiko Jun Gomi, Fumi Ohbayashi, and Toshikazu Oshiki (2000) Identification and genetic mapping of RAPD markers linked to the densonucleosis refractoriness gene, nsd-2, in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genes and Genetic Systems 75 (2): 93-96 .
46. Hiroaki Abe, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Shinya Kawai, Kazuei Mita, Toshikazu Oshiki (2000) Molecular structure of a novel gypsy-Ty3-like retrotranspon, Kabuki and nested retrotransposable elements on the W chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Molecular and General Genetics 263 (6): 916-924 .
47. Eappen G. Abraham, Hideki Sezutsu, Toshio Kanda, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Toru Shimada, and Toshiki Tamura (2000) Identification and characterization of a silkworm ABC transporter gene homologous to Drosophila white. Molecular and General Genetics 264: (in press).
48. Kenichi Mikitani, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Toru Shimada, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Jan Ake Gustafsson (2000) The chitinase gene of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, contains a novel Tc-like transposable element. Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 (48): 37725-37732 .
49. Guo-Xing Quan, Kazuei Mita, Kazuhiro Okano, Toru Shimada, Nanako Ugajin, Zhao Xia, Noriko Goto, Eiji Kanke, and Hideki Kawasaki (2001) Isolation and expression of the ecdysteroid-inducible angiotensin-converting enzyme-related gene in wing discs of Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 31 (1): 97-103 .
50. Fumi Ohbayashi, Masataka G. Suzuki, Kazuei Mita, Kazuhiro Okano and Toru Shimada (2001) A homologue of the Drosophila doublesex gene is transcribed into sex-specific mRNA isoforms in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (Part B) 128 (1): 145-158 .
51. Shogo Matsumoto, Toyoshi Yoshiga, Norihiro Yokoyama, Masashi Iwanaga, Seizo Koshiba, Takanori Kigawa, Hiroshi Hirota, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Okano, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada and Sadahiro Tatsuki (2001) Characterization of acyl-CoA-binding protein (ACBP) in the pheromone gland of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 31 (6-7): 603-609
52. Hiroaki Abe, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Mariko Kanehara, Tomoko Terada, Toru Shimada, Shinya Kawai, Kazuei Mita, Yasushi Kanamori, Masa-Toshi Yamamoto, Toshikazu Oshiki (2001) Two novel Pao-like retrotransposons (Kamikaze and Yamato) from the silkworm species Bombyx mori and B. mandarina : common structural features of Pao-like elements. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 265 (2): 375-385 .
53. Kazuhiro Okano, Toru Shimada, Kazuei Mita and Susumu Maeda (2001) Comparative expressed-sequence-tag analysis of differential gene expression profiles in BmNPV-infected BmN cells. Virology 282(2): 348-356 .
54. Masahisa Takeda, Kazuei Mita, Guo-Xing Quan, Toru Shimada, Kazuhiro Okano, Eiji Kanke and Hideki Kawasaki (2001) Mass isolation of cuticle protein cDNAs from wing discs of Bombyx mori and their characterizations. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 31(10): 1019-1028 .
55. Masataka G. Suzuki, Fumi Ohbayashi, Kazuei Mita and Toru Shimada (2001) The mechanism of sex-specific splicing at the doublesex gene is different between Drosophila melanogaster and Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 31(12): 1201-1211.
56. Xia Zhao, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, Kazuhiro Okano, Guo-Xing Quan, Eiji Kanke and Hideki Kawasaki. (2001) Isolation and expression of an ecdysteroid-inducible neutral endopeptidase 24.11-like gene in wing discs of Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 31(12): 1213-1219.
57. Guo-Xing Quan, Insu Kim, Natuo Koumoto, Hideki Sezutsu, Manabu Ote, Toru Shimada, Toshio Kanda, Kazuei Mita, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toshiki Tamura (2002) Characterization of the kynurenine 3-monooxygenase gene corresponding to the white egg 1 mutant in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 267(1): 1-9.
58. Hiroaki Abe, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Tomoko Terada, Mariko Kanehara, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, Shinya Kawai, Kazuei Mita, and Toshikazu Oshiki (2002) Nested retrotransposons on the W chromosome of the wild silkworm Bombyx mandarina. Insect Molecular Biology 11(4): 307-314.
59. Yoshiko Koike, Kazuei Mita, Masataka G. Suzuki, Susumu Maeda, Hiroaki Abe, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Pieter J. deJong, Toru Shimada (2003) Genomic sequence of 320 kb containing a kettin orthologue on the Z chromosome in Bombyx mori. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 269: 137-149.
60. Elitza P. Markova, Hitoshi Ueda, Katsuhiko Sakamoto, Katsutaka Oishi, Toru Shimada and Makio Takeda (2003) Cloning of Cyc (Bmal-1) homolog in Bombyx mori; Structural analyses and the tissue specific distributions. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (Part B) 134: 535-542.
61. Takanori Noji, Manabu Ote, Masahisa Takeda, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, and Hideki Kawasaki (2003) Isolation and comparison of different ecdysone-responsive cuticle protein genes in wing discs of Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 33(7): 671-679.
62. Masataka G. Suzuki, Shunsuke Funaguma, Toshio Kanda, Toshiki Tamura, and Toru Shimada (2003) Analysis of the biological functions of a doublesex homologue in Bombyx mori. Development Genes and Evolution 213: 345-354.
63. Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroaki Abe, Yasuo Irobe, Katsuji Saito, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Shinya Kawai, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada and Toshikazu Oshiki (2003) Detachment analysis of the translocated W chromosome shows that the female-specific randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker, Female-218, is derived from the second chromosome fragment region of the translocated W chromosome of the sex-limited pB silkworm (Bombyx mori) strain. Hereditas 138: 148-153.
64. Takaaki Daimon, Koutaro Hamada, Kazuei Mita, Kazuhiro Okano, Masataka G. Suzuki, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2003) A Bombyx mori gene, BmChi-h, encodes a protein homologous to bacterial and baculovirus chitinases. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 33(8): 749-759.
65. Ken Sahara, Atsuo Yoshido, Naoko Kawamura, Akio Onuma, Hiroaki Abe, Kazuei Mita, Toshikazu Oshiki, Toru Shimada, Sin-ichiro Asano, Hisanori Bando, Yuji Yasukochi (2003) W-derived BAC probes as a new tool for identification of the W chromosome and its aberrations in Bombyx mori. Chromosoma 112(1): 48-55.
66. Kazuei Mita, Mitsuoki Morimyo, Kazuhiro Okano, Yoshiko Koike, Junko Nohata, Hideki Kawasaki, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Kimiko Yamamoto, Masataka G. Suzuki, Toru Shimada, Marian R. Goldsmith, and Susumu Maeda (2003) The construction of an EST database for Bombyx mori and its application. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100(24): 14121-14126.
67. Elitza P. Markova, Toru Shimada and Makio Takeda (2003) Daily expression patterns of Cycle and Clock genes in the head of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment 18: 77-81.
68. Igor Landais, Mylene Ogliastro, Kazuei Mita, Junko Nohata, Miguel Lopez-Ferber, Martine Duonor-Cerutti, Toru Shimada, Philippe Fournier and Gerard Devauchelle (2003) Annotation pattern of ESTs from Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 cells and analysis of the ribosomal protein genes reveal insect-specific features and unexpectedly low codon usage bias. Bioinformatics 19 (18): 2343-2350.
69. Kazuei Mita, Masahiro Kasahara, Shin Sasaki, Yukinobu Nagayasu, Tomoyuki Yamada, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Nobukazu Namiki, Masanari Kitagawa, Hidetoshi Yamashita, Yuji Yasukochi, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Kimiko Yamamoto, Masahiro Ajimura, Gopalapillai Ravikumar, Michihiko Shimomura, Yoshiaki Nagamura, Tadasu Shin-i, Hiroaki Abe, Toru Shimada, Shinichi Morishita, and Takuji Sasaki (2004) The genome sequence of silkworm, Bombyx mori. DNA Research 11 (1): 27-35
70. Susumu Katsuma, Shinichiro Tanaka, Toru Shimada, and Masahiko Kobayashi (2004) Reduced cysteine protease activity of the hemolymph of Bombyx mori larvae infected with fp25-inactivated Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus results in the reduced postmortem host degradation. Archives of Virology 149(9): 1773-1782.
71. Susumu Katsuma, Toru Shimada, and Masahiko Kobayashi (2004) Characterization of the baculovirus Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus gene homologous to the mammalian FGF gene family. Virus Genes 29(2): 211-217.
72. Manabu Ote, Kazuei Mita, Hideki Kawasaki, Motoaki Seki, Junko Nohata, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2004) Microarray analysis of gene expression profiles in wing discs of Bombyx mori during pupal ecdysis. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 34(8): 775-784.
73. Hideki Kawasaki, Manabu Ote, Kazuhiro Okano, Toru Shimada, Quan Guo-Xing, and Kazuei Mita (2004) Change in the expressed gene patterns of the wing disc during the metamorphosis of Bombyx mori. Gene 343(1):133-142.
74. Masashi Iwanaga, Kanzaburo Takaya, Susumu Katsuma, Manabu Ote, Shinichiro Tanaka, Shizuo George Kamita, WonKyung Kang, Toru Shimada, and Masahiko Kobayashi (2004) Expression profiling of baculovirus genes in permissive and nonpermissive cell lines. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 323: 599-614.
75. Masataka G. Suzuki, Shunsuke Funaguma, Toshio Kanda, Toshiki Tamura, and Toru Shimada (2005) Role of the male BmDSX protein in the sexual differentiation of Bombyx mori. Evolution and Development 7(1): 58-68.
76. M. D. Prasad, M. Muthulakshmi, M. Madhu, K. P. Arunkumar, V. B. Sreenu, V. Pavithra, B. Bose, H. A. Nagarajaram, K. Mita, T. Shimada and J. Nagaraju (2005) SilkSatDb: A microsatellite database of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Nucleic Acids Research 33 (Database Issue): D403-406.
77. Susumu Katsuma, Shinichiro Tanaka, Naoko Omuro, Lisa Takabuchi, Takaaki Daimon, Shigeo Imanishi, Shuichi Yamashita, Masashi Iwanaga, Kazuei Mita, Susumu Maeda, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2005) Novel macula-like virus identified in Bombyx mori cultured cells. Journal of Virology 79 (9): 5577-5584.
78. Shunsuke Funaguma and Toru Shimada (2005) Accurate pre-mRNA splicing using a nuclear extract from Bombyx mori fat body. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 35(3): 257-261.
79. Shizuo G. Kamita, Koukichi Nagasaka, Josie W. Chua, Toru Shimada, Kazuei Mita, Masahiko Kobayashi, Susumu Maeda, and Bruce D. Hammock (2005) A baculovirus-encoded protein tyrosine phosphatase gene induces enhanced locomotory activity in a lepidopteran host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 (7): 2584-2589.
80. Hiroaki Abe, Motoaki Seki,Fumi Ohbayashi, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Jun-ichiYamashita, Tsuguru Fujii, Takeshi Yokoyama, Michiyoshi Takahashi,Yutaka Banno, Ken Sahara, Atsuo Yoshido, Jun-ichiro Ihara, Yuji Yasukochi, Kazuei Mita, Masahiro Ajimura, Masataka G Suzuki, Toshikazu Oshiki, and Toru Shimada (2005) Partial deletions of the W chromosome due to reciprocal translocation inthe silkworm Bombyx mori. Insect Molecular Biology 14(4): 339-352.
81. Shunsuke Funaguma, Masataka G. Suzuki, Toshiki Tamura, and Toru Shimada (2005) The Bmdsx transgene including trimmed introns is sex-specifically spliced in the silkworm tissues. Journal of Insect Science 5: 17 (available online: http://insectscience.org/5.17 ).
82. Manabu Ote, Kazuei Mita, Hideki Kawasaki, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2005) Characteristics of two genes encoding proteins with an ADAM-type metalloprotease domain, which are induced during the molting periods in Bombyx mori. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 59(2): 91-98.
83. Manabu Ote, Kazuei Mita, Hideki Kawasaki, Takaaki Daimon, Masahiko Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2005) Identification of molting fluid carboxypeptidase A (MF-CPA) in Bombyx mori. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (Part B) 141(3): 314-322.
84. Takaaki Daimon, Susumu Katsuma, Masashi Iwanaga, WonKyung Kang, and Toru Shimada (2005) The BmChi-h gene, a bacterial-type chitinase gene of Bombyx mori, encodes a functional exochitinase that plays a role in the chitin degradation during the molting process. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 35(10): 1112-1123.
85. Xue-Xia Miao, Shi-Jie Xu, Ming-Hui Li, Mu-Wang Li, Jian-Hua Huang, Fang-Yin Dai, Susan W. Marino, David R. Mills, Pei-Yu Zheng, Kazuei Mita, Shi-Hai Jia, Yong Zhang, Wen-Bing Liu, Hui Xiang, Qiu-Hong Guo, An-Ying Xu, Xiang-Yin Kong, Hong-Xuan Lin, Yao-Zhou Shi, Gang Lu, Xianglin Zhang, Wei Huang, Yuji Yasukochi, Toshiyuki Sugasaki, Toru Shimada, Javaregowda Nagaraju, Zhong-Huai Xiang, Sheng-Yue Wang, Marian R. Goldsmith, Chen Lu, Guo-Ping Zhao, and Yong-Ping Huang (2005) Simple sequence repeat-based consensus linkage map of Bombyx mori. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102(45): 16303-16308.
86. Yang-Sheng Zhong, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, and Hideki Kawasaki (2006) Glycine rich protein genes, encoding proteins constructing insect cuticle, have different developmental profiles from other cuticle protein genes in Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 36: 99-110.
87. Haruna Tsukioka, Masateru Takahashi, Hiroaki Mon, Kazuhiro Okano, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, Jae Man Lee, Yutaka Kawaguchi, Katsumi Koga, and Takahiro Kusakabe (2006) Role of the silkworm argonaute2 homolog gene in double-strand break repair of extrachromosomal DNA. Nucleic Acids Research 34(4): 1092-1101.
88. Tsuguru Fujii, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Takeshi Yokoyama, Osamu Ninaki, Toshikazu Oshiki, Akio Ohnuma, Yataro Tazima, Yutaka Banno, Masahiro Ajimura, Kazuei Mita, Motoaki Seki, Fumi Ohbayashi, Toru Shimada, and Hiroaki Abe (2006) The female-killing chromosome of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, was generated by translocation between the Z and W chromosomes. Genetica 127(1-3): 253-265.
89. Susumu Katsuma, Takaaki Daimon, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2006) Lepidopteran ortholog of Drosophila Breathless is a receptor for the baculoviral fibroblast growth factor. Journal of Virology 80(11): 5474-5481.
90. Takaaki Daimon, Katsuma Susumu, WonKyung Kang, and Toru Shimada (2006) Comparative studies of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus chitinase and its host ortholog, BmChi-h. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 345(2): 825-833.
91. Susumu Katsuma, Satoshi Horie, Takaaki Daimon, Masashi Iwanaga, and Toru Shimada (2006) In vivo and in vitro analyses of a Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus mutant lacking functional vfgf. Virology 355(1): 62-70.
92. Susumu Katsuma, Takaaki Daimon, Satoshi Horie, Michihiro Kobayashi, and Toru Shimada (2006) N-linked glycans of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus fibroblast growth factor are crucial for its secretion. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 350(4): 1069-1075.
93. Tsuguru Fujii, Takeshi Yokoyama, Osamu Ninagi, Kowa Kakehashi, Yoshiaki Obara, Mitsuru Nenoi, Takahiro Ishikawa, Kazuei Mita, Toru Shimada, and Hiroaki Abe (2007) Isolation and characterization of sex chromosome rearrangements generating male muscle dystrophy and female abnormal oogenesis in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Genetica 130(3): 267-280.
94. Takaaki Daimon, Susumu Katsuma, and Toru Shimada (2007) Mutational analysis of active site residues of chitinase from Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus. Virus Research 124(1-2): 168-175.
95. Shunsuke Funaguma, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Yutaka Suzuki, Naoko Omuro, Sumio Sugano, Kazuei Mita, Susumu Katsuma, and Toru Shimada (2007) SAGE analysis of early oogenesis in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37(2): 147-154.
96. Masashi Iwanaga, Toru Shimada, Masahiko Kobayashi, and WonKyung Kang (2007) Identification of differentially expressed host genes in Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus infected cells by using subtractive hybridization. Applied Entomology and Zoology 42(1): 151-159.
97. Guo-Xing Quan, Isao Kobayashi, Katsura Kojima, Keiro Uchino, Toshio Kanda, Hideki Sezutsu, Toru Shimada, and Toshiki Tamura (2007) Rescue of white egg 1 mutant by introduction of the wild-type Bombyx kynurenine 3-monooxygenase gene. Insect Science 14(2): 85-92.
98. Takaaki Daimon, Susumu Katsuma, WonKyung Kang, and Toru Shimada (2007) Functional characterization of chitinase from Cydia pomonella granulovirus. Archives of Virology 152(9): 1655-1664.
99. Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2007) ERK- and JNK-dependent signaling pathways contribute to Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus infection. Journal of Virology 81(24): 13700-13709.
100. Yutaka Orihara, Hiroshi Hamamoto, Hiroshi Kasuga, Toru Shimada, Yasushi Kawaguchi, and Kazuhisa Sekimizu (2007) Evaluation of therapeutic effects of antiviral agents using a silkworm baculovirus infection model. Journal of General Virology 89(1): 188-194.
101. Masataka G. Suzuki, Shigeo Imanishi, Naoshi Dohmae, Tomoe Nishimura, Toru Shimada, and Shogo Matsumoto (2008) Establishment of a novel in vivo sex-specific splicing assay system to identify a trans-acting factor that negatively regulates splicing of Bmdsx female exons. Molecular and Cellular Biology 28(1): 333-343.
102. Yan Meng, Naoko Omuro, Shunsuke Funaguma, Takaaki Daimon, Shinpei Kawaoka, Susumu Katsuma and Toru Shimada (2008) Prominent down-regulation of storage protein genes after bacterial challenge in eri-silkworm, Samia cynthia ricini. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 67(1): 9-19.
103. Shinpei Kawaoka, Susumu Katsuma, Takaaki Daimon, Ryoko Isono, Naoko Omuro, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Functional analysis of four Gloverin-like genes in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 67(2): 87-96.
104. Hiroaki Abe, Tsuguru Fujii, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Takeshi Yokoyama, Kazuhiro Kakehashi, Masahiro Ajimura, Kazuei Mita, Yutaka Banno, Yuji Yasukochi, Toshikazu Oshiki, Mitsuru Nenoi, Takahiro Ishikawa, and Toru Shimada (2008) Identification of the female-determining region of the W chromosome in Bombyx mori. Genetica 133(3): 269-282.
105. Shinpei Kawaoka, Kosuke Minami, Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Developmentally synchronized expression of two Bombyx mori Piwi subfamily genes, SIWI and BmAGO3 in germ-line cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 367(4): 755-760.
106. Hiroko Tabunoki, Toru Shimada, Yutaka Banno, Ryoichi Sato, Hideyuki Kajiwara, Kazuei Mita, and Jun-ichi Satoh (2008) Identification of Bombyx mori 14-3-3 orthologs and the interactor Hsp60. Neuroscience Research 61(3): 271-280.
107. Tsuguru Fujii, Hiroaki Abe, Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Mapping of sex-linked genes onto the genome sequence using various aberrations of the Z chromosome in Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38(12; Special Issue on the Silkworm Genome): 1072-1079.
108. Shinpei Kawaoka, Nobumitsu Hayashi, Susumu Katsuma, Hirohisa Kishino, Yuji Kohara, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Bombyx small RNAs: Genomic defense system against transposons in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38(12; Special Issue on the Silkworm Genome): 1058-1065.
109. Takaaki Daimon, Tomohiro Taguchi, Yan Meng, Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Beta-fructofuranosidase genes of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: Insight into enzymatic adaptation of B. mori to toxic alkaloids in mulberry latex. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283(22): 15271-15279.
110. Susumu Katsuma, Shinpei Kawaoka, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2008) Genome-wide survey for baculoviral host homologs using the Bombyx genome sequence. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38(12; Special Issue on the Silkworm Genome): 1080-1086.
111. Katsuhiko Ito, Kurako Kidokoro, Hideki Sezutsu, Junko Nohata, Kimiko Yamamoto, Isao Kobayashi, Keiro Uchino, Andrew Kalyebi, Ryokitsu Eguchi, Wajiro Hara, Toshiki Tamura, Susumu Katsuma, Toru Shimada, Kazuei Mita, and Keiko Kadono-Okuda (2008) Deletion of a gene encoding an amino acid transporter in the midgut membrane causes resistance to a Bombyx parvo-like virus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(21): 7523-7527.
112. Susumu Katsuma, Satoshi Horie, and Toru Shimada (2008) The fibroblast growth factor homolog of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus enhances systemic virus propagation in B. mori larvae. Virus Research 137(1): 80-85.
113. K P Arunkumar, Archana Tomar, Takaaki Daimon, Toru Shimada, and J Nagaraju (2008) WildSilkbase: An EST database of wild silkmoths. BMC Genomics 9:338 (available online: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/338/abstract).
114. Susumu Katsuma, Tsuguru Fujii, Shinpei Kawaoka, and Toru Shimada (2008) Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus SNF2 global transactivator homologue (Bm33) enhances viral pathogenicity in B. mori larvae. Journal of General Virology 89(12): 3039-3046.
115. Ryo Futahashi*, Jotaro Sato*, Yan Meng*, Shun Okamoto, Takaaki Daimon, Kimiko Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Junko Narukawa, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yutaka Banno, Susumu Katsuma, Toru Shimada, Kazuei Mita, and Haruhiko Fujiwara (2008) yellow and ebony are the responsible genes for the larval color mutants of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Genetics 180(4): 1995-2005. (* These authors contributed equally to this work)
116. The International Silkworm Genome Consortium - Chinese group: Qingyou Xia*, Jun Wang*, Zeyang Zhou, Ruiqiang Li, Wei Fan, Daojun Cheng, Tingcai Cheng, Junjie Qin Jun Duan, Hanfu Xu, Qibin Li, Ning Li, Mingwei Wang, Fangyin Dai, Chun Liu, Ying Lin, Ping Zhaoa, Huijie Zhang, Shiping Liu, Xingfu Zha, Chunfeng Li, Aichun Zhao, Minhui Pan, Guoqing Pan, Yihong Shen, Zhihong Gao, Zilong Wang, Genhong Wang, Zhengli Wu, Yong Hou, Chunli Chai, Quanyou Yu, Ningjia He, Ze Zhang, Songgang Li, Huanming Yang, Cheng Lu, Jian Wang, and Zhonghuai Xiang*, Japanese group : Kazuei Mita*, Masahiro Kasahara, Yoichiro Nakatani, Kimiko Yamamoto, Hiroaki Abe, Brudrul Ahsan, Takaaki Daimon, Koichiro Doi, Tsuguru fujii, Haruhiko Fujiwara, Asao Fujiyama, Ryo Futahashi, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Jun Ishibashi, Masafumi Iwami, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Hiroshi Kataoka, Susumu Katsuma, Shinpei Kawaoka, Hideki Kawasaki, Yuji Kohara, Toshinori Kozaki, Reginaldo M. Kuroshu, Seigo Kuwazaki, Kouji Matsushima, Hiroshi Minami, Yukinobu Nagayasu, Takao Nakagawa, Junko Narukawa, Junko Nohata, Kazuko Ohishi, Yukiteru Ono, Mizuko Osanai-Futahashi, Katsuhisa Ozaki, Wei Qu, Ladislav Roller, Shin Sasaki, Takuji Sasaki, Atsushi Seino, Masaru Shimomura, Michihiko Shimomura, Tadasu Shin-I, Tetsuro Shinoda, Takahiro Shiotsuki, Yoshitaka Suetsugu, Sumio Sugano, Makiko Suwa, Yutaka Suzuki, Shigeharu Takiya, Toshiki Tamura, Hiromitsu Tanaka, Yoshiaki Tanaka, Kazushige Touhara, Tomoyuki Yamada, Minoru Yamakawa, Naoki Yamanaka, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Yang-Sheng Zhong, Toru Shimada* and Shinichi Morishita* (2008) The genome of a lepidopteran model insect, the silkworm Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 38(12; Special Issue on the Silkworm Genome): 1036-1045. (* Corresponding authors)
117. Susumu Katsuma, Tadashi Nakanishi, Takaaki Daimon, and Toru Shimada (2009) N-linked glycans located in the pro-region of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus V-CATH are essential for the proper folding of V-CATH and V-CHIA. Journal of General Virology 90(1): 170-176.
118. Yan Meng, Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2009) Abnormal red body coloration of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, is caused by a mutation in a novel kynureninase. Genes to Cells 14(2): 129-140.
119. Shinpei Kawaoka, Susumu Katsuma, Yan Meng, Nobumitsu Hayashi, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2009) Identification and characterization of globin genes from two lepidopteran insects, Bombyx mori and Samia cynthia ricini. Gene 431(1-2): 33-38.
120. Susumu Katsuma, Tadashi Nakanishi, and Toru Shimada (2009) Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus FP25K is essential for maintaining a steady-state level of v-cath expression throughout the infection. Virus Research 140(1): 155-160.
121. Katsuhiko Ito, Susumu Katsuma, Kimiko Yamamoto, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2009) A 25 bp-long insertional mutation in the BmVarp gene causes the waxy translucent skin of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 39(4): 287-293.
122. Yan Meng, Susumu Katsuma, Takaaki Daimon, Yutaka Banno, Keiro Uchino, Hideki Sezutsu, Toshiki Tamura, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2009) The silkworm mutant lemon (lemon lethal) is a potential insect model for human Sepiapterin reductase deficiency. Journal of Biological Chemistry 284(17): 11698 -11705.
123. Tsuguru Fujii, Masataka Ozaki, Takaaki Masamoto, Susumu Katsuma, Hiroaki Abe, and Toru Shimada (2009) A Bombyx mandarina mutant exhibiting translucent larval skin is controlled by the molybdenum cofactor sulfurase gene. Genes and Genetic Systems 84(2): 147-152.
124. Shinpei Kawaoka, Nobumitsu Hayashi, Yutaka Suzuki, Hiroaki Abe, Sumio Sugano, Yukihide Tomari, Toru Shimada, and Susumu Katsuma (2009) The Bombyx ovary-derived cell line endogenously expresses Piwi/Piwi-interacting RNA complexes. RNA 15(7): 1258-1264.
125. Susumu Katsuma and Toru Shimada (2009) Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus ORF34 is required for efficient transcription of late and very late genes. Virology 392(2): 230-237.
126. Tsuguru Fujii, Seigo Kuwazaki, Kimiko Yamamoto, Hiroaki Abe, Akio Ohnuma, Susumu Katsuma, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2010) Identification and molecular characterization of a sex chromosome rearrangement causing a soft and pliable (spli) larval body phenotype in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Genome 53(1): 45-54.
127. Takeshi Fujii, Katsuhiko Ito, Susumu Katsuma, Ryo Nakano, Toru Shimada, and Yukio Ishikawa (2010) Molecular and biochemical characterization of an acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase from the adzuki bean borer Ostrinia scapulalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 40(1): 74-48.
128. Katsuhiko Ito, Susumu Katsuma, Kimiko Yamamoto, Keiko Kadono-Okuda, Kazuei Mita, and Toru Shimada (2010) Yellow-e determines the color pattern of larval head and tail spots of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285(8): 5624-5629.
129. Tadashi Nakanishi, Chie Goto, Michihiro Kobayashi, WonKyung Kang, Takehiro Suzuki, Naoshi Dohmae, Shogo Matsumoto, Toru Shimada, and Susumu Katsuma (2010) Comparative studies of a lepidopteran baculovirus-specific protein FP25K: Development of a novel BmNPV-based vector with a modified fp25K. Journal of Virology (in press).