| Budget Amount *help |
¥199,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥153,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥46,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥39,780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥30,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥39,130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥30,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,030,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥39,390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥30,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,090,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥41,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥31,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,510,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥40,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥31,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This pioneering project has revealed the new molecular mechanisms of the adjacent gene group “supergene” that controls complex adaptive traits. We clarified the structure and function of supergene, which controls the Batesian mimicry of the swallowtail butterfly Papilio polytes and its closely related species Papilio memnon. The recombination in the supergene locus was suppressed by chromosomal inversion in the former, but by structural diversity in the later, suggesting that the mimicry loci of both species may have evolved by parallel evolution. It was also shown that the mimicry traits of both species are regulated mainly by a dsx gene in the mimicry supergene.
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