Toshiya Ando

The paper investigates how sexual dimorphism in wing color patterns of the harlequin ladybug evolves by analyzing the role of the doublesex gene and its regulation of the h gene.

This study develops a combined diet-rearing protocol for Scepticus tigrinus that improves pupation success compared to artificial or plant-based diets alone.

The paper develops fast-annealed 3'-extended dsDNA templates to improve CRISPR-Cas9-mediated knock-in efficiency in emerging model insects.

The paper identifies an insect-specific endosomal protein involved in forming nanopores in the cuticle, essential for odor detection.