The role of doublesex in the evolution of exaggerated horns in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 561-567

  Ito, Yuta ^a   Harigai, Ayane ^a   Nakata, Moe ^a   Hosoya, Tadatsugu ^b   Araya, Kunio ^b   Oba, Yuichi ^a   Ito, Akinori ^a   Ohde, Takahiro ^a   Yaginuma, Toshinobu ^a   Niimi, Teruyuki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

doublesex; exaggerated horn; sexual dimorphism; sexual selection; Trypoxylus dichotomus

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLESEX GENE; EVOLUTION; HORN; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SRY GENE; TRYPOXYLUS DICHOTOMUS;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; HORNS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ORYCTES RHINOCEROS; TRYPOXYLUS DICHOTOMUS;

EID: 84878610738     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.50     Document Type: Article

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