Papers that examined W chromatin of lepidopteran insects

Below is the list of papers that examined W chromatin of lepidopteran insects. Please note that this list may not cover all the published papers.

1940s

• Smith SG (1945) Heteropycnosis as a means of diagnosing sex. Journal of Heredity 36: 195-196.
• Frizzi G (1948) L'eteropicnosi come indici di riconoscimento dei sessi in Bombyx mori L. Ricerca Scientifica 18: 119-123.

1960s

• Traut W & Mosbacher GC (1968) Geschlechtschromatin bei Lepidopteren. Chromosoma 25: 343-356. 
• Suomalainen E (1969) On the sex chromosome trivalent in some Lepidoptera females. Chromosoma 28: 298-308.
• Guelin M (1968) Donnees preliminaires sur l'existence de vesicules chromatiniennes differenciees dans les noyaux des trophocytes d'Ephestia kuehniella Z. (Lepidoptere). Comptes Rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie D 266: 1740-1742.
• Wolbert P (1969) Die Schlupfrate der grossen Wachsmotte, Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae), nach einer Roentgenbestrahlung, einer Verwundung und kombinierter Belastung im Puppenstadium. Wilhelm Roux'Archivfiir Entwicklungsmechanik der Organismen 164: 134-169.

1970s

• Ennis TJ (1976) Sex chromatin and chromosome numbers in Lepidoptera. Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 18: 119-130.
• Ito S (1977) Cytogenetical studies on the chromosomes of silk gland cells of the silkworm with special reference to the structure and behavior of the sex chromosomes. Japanese Journal of Genetics 52: 327-340.
• Traut W (1976) Pachytene mapping in the female silkworm, Bombyx mori L. Chromosoma 58: 275-284.
• Cross W & Gill A (1979) A new technique for the prospective survey of sex chromatin using the larvae of Lepidoptera. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33: 50-55.
• Fontana PG (1976) Improved resolution of the meiotic chromosomes in both sexes of Euxoa species and their hybrids (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 18: 537-544.
• Wysoki M (1978) The sex chromatin of the Egyptian cottonworm, Spodoptera littoralis Boisd. (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera). Genetica 48: 229-231.
• Clarke C, Sheppard PM & Scali V (1975) All-female broods in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina (L.). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 189: 29-37.
• Habert EW & Beckert WH (1971) Sex distinguishing chromatin in some invertebrates. Cytologia 36: 190-197.
• Clarke C, Mittwoch U, Traut W (1977) Linkage and cytogenetic studies in the swallowtail butterflies Papilio polyxenes Fab. and Papilio machaon L. and their hybrids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 198: 385-399.
• Clarke C, Sheppard P M, Mittwoch U. 1976. Heterochromatin polymorphism and colour pattern in the tiger swallowtail butterfly Papilio glaucus L. Nature 263: 585-587.
• Narang RC & Gupta ML (1979) Chromosomal studies in eri silk moth, Philosamia ricini Hutt. (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae). Entomon 4: 217-221.
• Gruzova MN (1974) Nuclear structures in ovarioles of Laspeyresia pomonella. Sex chromatin in trophocytes. Ontogenes 5: 623-633. [in Russian].

1980s

• Clarke C & Ford EB (1980) Intersexuality in Lymantria dispar (L.). A Reassessment. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 206: 381-394.
• Bedo DG (1984) Karyotypic and chromosomes banding studies of the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae). Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology 26: 141-145.
• Gupta ML & Narang RC (1980) Chromosome number, sex chromatin and sex chromosome mechanism in some Saturniid moths of India. Entomon 5: 13-18.
• Gupta M L & Narang RC (1981) Karyotype and meiotic mechanism in Muga silkmoths, Antheraea compta Roth. and A. assamensis (Helf.) (Lepidoptera:Saturniidae). Genetica 57: 21-27.
• Nokkala S (1987) Cytological characteristics of chromosome behaviour during female meiosis in Sphinx ligustri L. (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera). Hereditas 106: 169-179.
• Nilsson N0, Lofstedt C & Davring L (1988) Unusual sex chromosome inheritance in six species of small ermine moths (Yponomeuta, Yponomeutidae, Lepidoptera). Hereditas 108: 259-265.

1990s

• Gruzova MN, Sehnal F & GukinaYI (1990) Peculiarities of polytrophic ovariole organization of the wax moth Galleria melonella (Lepidoptera). Tsitologiya 32: 677-683. [in Russian].
• Roehrdanz RL (1990) Maternal inheritance of a Y chromosome in Heliothis could play a role in backcross sterility. Journal of Heredity 81: 66-68. 
• Traut W & Marec F (1996) Sex chromatin in Lepidoptera. The Quarterly Review of Biology 71: 239-256.

2000-present

• Kageyama D & Traut W (2004) Opposite sex-specific effects of Wolbachia and interference with sex determination of its host Ostrinia scapulalis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 251-258.
• Makee H & Tafesh N (2006) Sex chromatin body as a marker of radiation-induced sex chromosome aberrations in the potato tuber moth, Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Journal of Pest Science 79: 75-82. 
• Narita S, Nomura M & Kageyama D (2007) A natural population of the butterfly Eurema hecabe with Wolbachia-induced female-biased sex ratio not by feminization. Genome 50: 365-372.
• Narita S, Nomura M & Kageyama D (2007) A gynandromorph of Eurema hecabe (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Entomological News 118: 134-138.
• Sakamoto H, Kageyama D, Hoshizaki S & Ishikawa Y (2007) Sex-specific death in Ostrinia furnacalis (Asian corn borer moth) infected with Wolbachia occurs across the larval development. Genome 50: 645-652. 
• Narita S, Kageyama D, Nomura M & Fukatsu T (2007) Unexpected mechanism of symbiont-induced reversal of insect sex: feminizing Wolbachia continuously acts on the butterfly Eurema hecabe during larval development. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73: 4332-4341.
• Fuková I, Traut W, Vítková M, Nguyen P, Kubícková S & Marec F (2007) Probing the W chromosome of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella, with sequences from microdissected sex chromatin. Chromosoma 116: 135-145.
• Fuková I, Neven LG, Bárcenas NM, Gund NA, Dalíková M & Marec F (2009) Rapid assessment of the sex of codling moth Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) eggs and larvae. J. Appl. Entomol. 133: 249–261.