A paper “Superoxide dismutase down-regulation and the oxidative stress is required to initiate pupation in Bombyx mori” was published in Scientific Reports. Dr. Hidemasa Bono from DBCLS has contributed to this work in meta-analysis of transcriptome data from a public gene expression database.

The open-access full paper can be found online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51163-3

Nojima Y, Bono H, Yokoyama T, Iwabuchi K, Sato R, Arai K, Tabunoki H. “Superoxide dismutase down-regulation and the oxidative stress is required to initiate pupation in Bombyx mori.” Scientific Reports, 2019; 9(1):14693. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51163-3