Kentaro M. Tanaka

This study identifies alternative splicing of TRPA1 as a key mechanism driving reduced electrophile sensitivity in S. flava, enabling adaptation to toxic Brassicales plants.

The paper examines oviprovector scales in Drosophila species, finding they have divergent sizes and spatial arrangements and are regulated by a conserved gene network similar to trichomes.

The paper deletes an enhancer in ebony to reveal redundant enhancer activities and a silencer that represses expression in specific regions of Drosophila melanogaster.