Transcriptomic and functional screening of weapon formation genes implies significance of cell adhesion molecules and female-biased genes in broad-horned flour beetle.

"plos publication stage vor-update-to-uncorrected-proof publication update 2023-12-15 data availability whole genome sequence and rna-seq read data is available as samd00631296 (wgs) and samd00631272- samd00631294 (rna-seq) in prjdb16215 in ddbj database.; data availability whole genome sequence and rna-seq read data is available as samd00631296 (wgs) and samd00631272- samd00631294 (rna-seq) in prjdb16215 in ddbj database. s1 table (xlsx data availability whole genome sequence and rna-seq read data is available as samd00631296"

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"JSPS Kakenhi grantship supporting this study (18H04815, 21H02540, 22K06402 to YO and 20H05944 to TN). The Integrative Genomics Collaboration Project and BIAS system of National Institute of Basic Biology (23NIBB420 to YO). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."