Research Achievements
吉戸 敦生・佐原 健 (2019) カイコの精巣を用いた染色体と細胞分裂の観察（INカイコの実験単 監修：日本蚕糸学会）NTS, 303pp
Katsuma S, Kiuchi T, Kawamoto M, Fujimoto T, Sahara K (2018) Unique sex determination system in the silkworm, Bombyx mori:current status and beyond. The Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B 94 (5): 205-216.
https://doi.org/10.2183/pjab.94.014
Sahara K, Yoshido A, Yasukochi Y (2016): A history of Chromosome identification in Bombyx mori. Chrmosome Science 19: 3-9.
https://doi.org/10.11352/scr.19.3
佐原 健・松橋 伊織・吉戸 敦生 (2015): チョウ目昆虫の性染色体進化. 蚕糸昆虫バイオテック 84: 37-49.
Yoshido A, Sahara K, Yasukochi Y (2014): Chapter 6; Silkmoths (Lepidoptera). In. Protocols for cytogenetic mapping of arthropod genomes. Sharakhov IV ed. pp219-256. CRC press. Boca Raton Fl October 28, 2014, ISBN 9781466598157 - CAT# K20873
佐原 健 (2012): 人と糸In糸の博物誌－ムシたちが糸で織りなす多様な世界－佐原 健・齋藤 裕共編. 海游舎 pp166-180. ISBN978-4-905930-86-0
佐原 健 (2012): チョウとガの糸In糸の博物誌－ムシたちが糸で織りなす多様な世界－佐原 健・齋藤 裕共編. 海游舎 pp147-165. ISBN978-4-905930-86-0
Sahara K, Yoshido A, Traut W (2012): Sex chromosome evolution in moths and butterflies. Chromosome Res 20(1): 83-94.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-011-9262-z
Marec F, Sahara K, Traut W (2010): Rise and fall of the W chromosome in Lepidoptera. In Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera. Eds. Goldsmith MR, Marec F. CRC press.New York. pp49-63. Print ISBN: 978-1-4200-6014-0, eBook ISBN: 978-1-4200-6020-1
佐原 健 (2009): カイコの染色体構造と染色体同定の歴史. In分子昆虫学 ポストゲノムの昆虫研究. 神村学ら編集. 共立出版 pp. 12-17 (著書) ISBN 978-4-320-05695-4
佐原 健 (2009): 昆虫を通して生命現象をみる－DNAを使ってカイコの染色体を識別する－ In虫たちが語る生物学の未来. 林 幸之ら編集. （財）衣笠会 pp90-93.
Traut W, Sahara K, Marec F (2007): Sex chromosomes and sex determination in Lepidoptera. Sexual Dev, 1(6), 332-346.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000111765
Pujiastuti Y, Asano S, Sahara K, Bando H and Iizuka T (1999): Insecticidal crystal proteins isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. wuhanensis towards Lepidopteran insects. In Biotechnology of Bacillus thuringiensis (Ziniu Y, Ming S and Zidou L eds) Vol. 3, 53-57. Science Press, Beijing, New York.
Asano S, Okumura E, Kamagata Y, Sahara K, Bando H and Iizuka T (1996): Mutagenesis of loop3 region of the Bacillus thuringiensis cry1Ac δ-endotoxin affect DBM's receptor binding, Vol. 2, 49-60 (A. Tipvadee et al (eds), In The 2nd Pacific Rim conference on biotechnology of Bacillus thuringiensis and its impact to the environment)
Ohno M, Fujimoto T, Naito Y, Joraku A, Yasukochi Y, Sahara K (2020): BAC selection of the large white butterfly, Pieris brassicae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) containing orthologs of the silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 55(1), 159?174.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-019-00665-7
Ohno M, Kawamoto M, Sahara K (2020): Development of an application, Bombyx mori tool for ortholog picking 1 (BmTOP). Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology 89(1), 1-7.
https://doi.org/10.11416/jibs.89.1_001
Traut W, Schubert V, Daliková M, Marec F, Sahara K (2019): Activity and inactivity of moth sex chromosomes in somatic and meiotic cells. Chromosoma 128 (4), 533?545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00412-019-00722-8
Received: 6 June 2019 /Revised: 17 July 2019 /Accepted: 6 August 2019
Saito Y, Sato Y, Kongchuensin M, Chao JT, Sahara K (2019) New Stigmaeopsis species on Miscanthus grasses in Taiwan and Thailand (Acari, Tetranychidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology 24(4), 675-682.
https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.24.4.12
Sakai H, Oshima H, Yuri K, Gotoh H, Daimon T, Yaginuma T, Sahara K, Niimi T (2019) Dimorphic sperm formation by Sex-lethal. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 116 (21) 10412-10417.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820101116
Okumura A, Kobayashi M, Kitajima H, Yasukochi Y, Suzuki G, Sahara K (2019) Construction of a BAC library of Endoclita excrescens as a tool for comparative gene mapping in Lepidoptera. Entomological Science 22, 167?172. doi: 10.1111/ens.12350
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ens.12350
Fujimoto T, Okumura A, Yoshido A, Yasukochi Y, Suzuki G, Sahara K (2018) Construction of a BAC library and selection of BACs containing orthologs of Bombyx mori genes in Stenopsyche marmorata (Trichoptera: Stenopsychidae). Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology 87(2): 61-69.
https://doi.org/10.11416/jibs.87.2_061
Yasukochi Y, Yang B, Fujimoto T, Sahara K, Matsuo T, Ishikawa Y (2018) Conservation and lineage-specific rearrangements in the GOBP/PBP gene complex of distantly related ditrysian Lepidoptera. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0192762.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192762
Kageyama D, Ohno M, Sasaki T, Yoshido A, Konagaya T, Jouraku A, Kuwazaki S, Kanamori H, Katayose Y, Narita S, Miyata M, Riegler M, Sahara K (2017): Feminizing Wolbachia endosymbiont disrupts maternal sex chromosome inheritance in a butterfly species. Evolution Letters 1(5): 232-244.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/evl3.28
Yamada Y, Asano S, Bando H, Sahara K (2017): Inheritance of cocoon color mutation and heterosis in Antheraea yamamai. Journal of Wild Silkworm & Silk 20: 57-61.
Yuri K, Sahara K (2017): Relative humidity and maintenance of p50 silkworms reared on artificial diet. Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology 86: 43-47.
https://doi.org/10.11416/jibs.86.2_043
Saito Y, Zhang YX, Mori K, Ito K, Sato, Chittenden AR, Lin JZ, Chae Y, Sakagami T, Sahara K. (2016): Variation in nesting behavior of eight species of spider mites, Stigmaeopsis having sociality. The Science of Nature 103: 87.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-016-1408-6
Green JE, Daliková M, Sahara K, Marec F, Akam M (2016): XX/XY system of sex determination in the geophilomorph centipede Strigamia maritima. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0150292.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150292
Yoshido A, MarecF, Sahara K (2016): The fate of W chromosomes in hybrids between wild
silkmoths, Samia cynthia ssp.: no role in sex determination and reproduction. Heredity, 116, 424?433.
https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.110
Šichová J, Ohno M, Dincă V, Watanabe M, Sahara K, Marec F. (2016): Fissions, fusions, and translocations shaped the karyotype and multiple sex chromosome constitution of the northeast-Asian wood white butterfly, Leptidea amurensis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118, 457?471.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12756
Yasukochi Y, Ohno M, Shibata F, Jouraku A, Nakano R, Ishikawa Y, Sahara K (2016): A FISH-based chromosome map for the European corn borer yields insights into ancient chromosomal fusions in the silkworm. Heredity 116, 75-83
https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.72
Ito K, Katsuma S, Kuwazaki S, Jouraku A, Fujimoto T, Sahara K, Yasukochi Y, Yamamoto K, Tabunoki H, Yokoyama T, Kadono-Okuda K, Shimada T (2016): Mapping and recombination analysis of two moth colour mutations, Black moth and Wild wing spot, in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Heredity 116, 52-59
https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.69
Šichová J, Volenikova A, Dincă V, Nguyen P, Vila R, Sahara K, Marec F (2015): Dynamic karyotype evolution and unique sex determination systems in Leptidea wood white butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 89.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0375-4
Gotoh H, Nishikawa H, Sahara K, Yaginuma T, Niimi T (2015): A new molecular technique for determining the sex of Harmonia axyridis. Journal of Insect Biotechnology and Sericology 84:9-15.
https://doi.org/10.11416/jibs.84.1_009
Sahara K, Yoshido A, Shibata F, Fujikawa-Kojima N, Okabe T, Tanaka-Okuyama M, Yasukochi Y (2013): FISH identification of Helicoverpa armigera and Mamestra brassicae chromosomes by BAC and fosmid probes. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 43:644-653.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.04.003
Nguyen P, Sykorova M, Šichová J, Káta V, Daliková M, čapkova Frydrychova R, Neven LG, Sahara K, Marec F (2013): Neo-sex chromosomes and adaptive potential in tortricid pests. The Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 6931-6936
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220372110
Yoshido A, Šichová J, Kubi?kova S, Marec F, Sahara K (2013): Rapid turnover of the W chromosome in geographical populations of wild silkmoths, Samia cynthia ssp. Chromosome Research 21:149-164
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10577-013-9344-1
Kamimura M, Tatetishi K, Tanaka-Okuyama M, Okabe T, Shibata F, Sahara K, Yasukochi Y (2012): EST sequencing and fosmid library construction in a non-model moth, Mamestra brassicae, for comparative mapping. Genome 55: 775-781.
https://doi.org/10.1139/g2012-063
Ono C, Kamagata T, Taka H, Sahara K, Asano S, Bando H (2012): Phenotypic grouping of 141 BmNPVs lacking viral gene sequences. Virus Res. 165(2):197-206.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2012.02.016