Nature Communications (Sep 2018)
Repeated inversions within a pannier intron drive diversification of intraspecific colour patterns of ladybird beetles
- Toshiya Ando,
- Takeshi Matsuda,
- Kumiko Goto,
- Kimiko Hara,
- Akinori Ito,
- Junya Hirata,
- Joichiro Yatomi,
- Rei Kajitani,
- Miki Okuno,
- Katsushi Yamaguchi,
- Masaaki Kobayashi,
- Tomoyuki Takano,
- Yohei Minakuchi,
- Masahide Seki,
- Yutaka Suzuki,
- Kentaro Yano,
- Takehiko Itoh,
- Shuji Shigenobu,
- Atsushi Toyoda,
- Teruyuki Niimi
Affiliations
- Toshiya Ando
- Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology
- Takeshi Matsuda
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Kumiko Goto
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Kimiko Hara
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Akinori Ito
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Junya Hirata
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Joichiro Yatomi
- Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
- Rei Kajitani
- Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Miki Okuno
- Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Katsushi Yamaguchi
- NIBB Core Research Facilities, National Institute for Basic Biology
- Masaaki Kobayashi
- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University
- Tomoyuki Takano
- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University
- Yohei Minakuchi
- Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics
- Masahide Seki
- Laboratory of Systems Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Yutaka Suzuki
- Laboratory of Systems Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- Kentaro Yano
- Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University
- Takehiko Itoh
- Department of Biological Information, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Shuji Shigenobu
- Department of Basic Biology, School of Life Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
- Atsushi Toyoda
- Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics
- Teruyuki Niimi
- Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06116-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The harlequin ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis, has remarkable phenotypic diversity, with over 200 colour patterns. Here, Ando et al. show that this patterning is regulated by the transcription factor gene pannier and has diversified by repeated inversions and cis-regulatory modifications of pannier.
