Publications of Yu Okamura

Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; García-Lozano, M.; Weiss, B.; Keller, J.; Vogel, H.; Fukumori, K.; Fukatsu, T.; Konstantinov, A. S.; Montagna, M. et al.; Moseyko, A. G.; Riley, E. G.; Slipinski, A.; Vencl, F. V.; Windsor, D. M.; Salem, H.; Kaltenpoth, M.; Pauchet, Y.: Symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer promote herbivory in the megadiverse leaf beetles. Current Biology 35, pp. 1 - 15 (2025)

Lyu, H.; Ernst, L.; Nakamura, Y.; Okamura, Y.; Köllner, T. G.; Luck, K.; Liu, B.; Chen, Y.; Beerhues, L.; Gershenzon, J. et al.; Paetz, C.: Phenylphenalenones and linear diarylheptanoid derivatives are biosynthesized via parallel routes in Musella lasiocarpa, the chinese dwarf banana. Organic Letters 26 (26), pp. 5522 - 5527 (2024)

Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.: De novo genome assembly and annotation of Leptosia nina provide new insights in the evolutionary dynamics of genes involved in host-plant adaptation of Pierinae butterflies. Genome Biology and Evolution 16 (5), evae105 (2024)

Gikonyo, M. W.; Ahn, S.-J.; Biondi, M.; Fritzlar, F.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Köllner, T. G.; Şen, I.; Hernández-Teixidor, D.; Lee, C.-F. et al.; Letsch, H.; Beran, F.: A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes. Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, qpad197, pp. 127 - 145 (2024)

Shin, N. R.; Okamura, Y.; Kirsch, R.; Pauchet, Y.: Genome sequencing provides insights into the evolution of gene families encoding plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in longhorned beetles. Insect Molecular Biology 32 (5), pp. 469 - 483 (2023)

Pincelli, T.; Vasileiadis, T.; Dong, S.; Beaulieu, S.; Dendzik, M.; Zahn, D.; Lee, S.; Seiler, H.; Qi, Y.; Xian, R. P. et al.; Maklar, J.; Coy, E.; Mueller, N. S.; Okamura, Y.; Reich, S.; Wolf, M.; Rettig, L.; Ernstorfer, R.: Observation of multi‐directional energy transfer in a hybrid plasmonic–excitonic nanostructure. Advanced Materials 35 (9), 2209100 (2023)

Okamura, Y.; Dort, H.; Reichelt, M.; Tunström, K.; Wheat, W. C.; Vogel, H.: Testing hypotheses of a coevolutionary key innovation reveals a complex suite of traits involved in defusing the mustard oil bomb. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (51), e2208447119 (2022)

Kirsch, R.; Okamura, Y.; Häger, W.; Vogel, H.; Kunert, G.; Pauchet, Y.: Metabolic novelty originating from horizontal gene transfer is essential for leaf beetle survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (40), e2205857119 (2022)

Sontowski, R.; Poeschl, Y.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Guyomar, C.; Cortesero, A.-M.; van Dam, N. M.: A high-quality functional genome assembly of Delia radicum L. (Diptera: Anthomiidae) annotated from egg to adult. Molecular Ecology 22 (5), pp. 1954 - 1971 (2022)

Okamura, Y.; Sato, A.; Kawaguchi, L.; Nagano, A. J.; Murakami, M.; Vogel, H.; Kroymann, J.: Microevolution of Pieris butterfly genes involved in host plant adaptation along a host plant community cline. Molecular Ecology 31 (11), pp. 3083 - 3097 (2022)

Shin, N. R.; Shin, S.; Okamura, Y.; Kirsch, R.; Lombard, V.; Svacha, P.; Denux, O.; Augustin, S.; Henrissat, B.; McKenna, D. D. et al.; Pauchet, Y.: Larvae of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera; Cerambycidae) have evolved a diverse and phylogenetically conserved array of plant cell wall degrading enzymes. Systematic Entomology 46 (4), pp. 784 - 797 (2021)

Steward, R. A.; Okamura, Y.; Boggs, C. L.; Vogel, H.; Wheat, C. W.: The genome of the margined white butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 (4), evab053 (2021)

Sato, A.; Okamura, Y.; Murakami, M.: Diversification and selection pattern of CYP6B genes in Japanese Papilio butterflies and their association with host plant spectra. PeerJ 8, e10625 (2020)

Okamura, Y.; Sato, A.; Tsuzuki, N.; Murakami, M.; Heidel-Fischer, H. M.; Vogel, H.: Molecular signatures of selection associated with host-plant differences in Pieris butterflies. Molecular Ecology 28 (22), pp. 4958 - 4970 (2019)

Okamura, Y.; Sato, A.; Tsuzuki, N.; Sawada, Y.; Hirai, M. Y.; Heidel-Fischer, H. M.; Reichelt, M.; Murakami, M.; Vogel, H.: Differential regulation of host plant adaptive genes in Pieris butterflies exposed to a range of glucosinolate profiles in their host plants. Scientific Reports 9, 7256 (2019)

Okamura, Y.; Tsuzuki, N.; Kuroda, S.; Sato, A.; Sawada, Y.; Hirai, M. Y.; Murakami, M.: Interspecific differences in the larval performance of Pieris butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) are associated with differences in the glucosinolate profiles of host plants. Journal of Insect Science 19 (3), pp. 1 - 9 (2019)

Wheat, C. W.; Steward, R. A.; Okamura, Y.; Vogel, H.; Lehmann, P.; Roberts, K. T.: Functional coherence among miRNA targets: a potential metric for assessing biological signal among target prediction methods in non-model species. EcoEvoRxiv (2023)