Collaborative research with Osaka University’s Kondo Lab and Assistant Prof. Goto (Shizuoka University) has been published in Development. The secret behind the formation of the sharp horns of adult rhinoceros beetles.
Keisuke Matsuda, Haruhiko Adachi, Hiroki Gotoh, Yasuhiro Inoue, Shigeru Kondo, Adhesion and shrinkage transform the rounded pupal horn into an angular adult horn in Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Development, 2024 Oct 15;151(20):dev202082. doi: 10.1242/dev.202082. Epub 2024 Mar 13.