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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

When and how do 17-year periodical cicada nymphs decide to emerge? A field test of the 4-year-gate hypothesis.

Namiho Saito, Satoshi Yamamoto, Satoshi Kakishima, Yutaka Okuzaki, Andrew Rasmussen, Diler Haji, Shota Nomura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takehiko Itoh, Jin Yoshimura and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Namiho SaitoDepartment of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Satoshi YamamotoDepartment of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0123-9112
Satoshi KakishimaDepartment of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6000-3068
Yutaka OkuzakiFaculty of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Global Education, Osaka Metropolitan University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9362-0078
Andrew RasmussenDepartment of Biology, Mount St Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Diler HajiDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Shota NomuraDepartment of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6843-787X
Hiroyuki TanakaDepartment of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.
Takehiko ItohDepartment of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6113-557X
Jin YoshimuraGraduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-1610-1386
Chris SimonEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
John R CooleyEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3691-2592
Gene KritskyDepartment of Biology, Mount St Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Teiji SotaDepartment of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0400-9147

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceNSF
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 17-year cicadas (

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HemipteraAnimalsBody WeightNymphPigmentationbiological clockcritical body weightdevelopmental gatedifferential gene expressionlife historymetamorphosisperiodical insectstranscriptomes

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PMCPMC12380492

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