Fig. 1.
—Identification of piRNA biogenesis proteins in insects. D.mel: Drosophila melanogaster, A.mel: Apis mellifera (honeybee), A.flo: Apis florea, A.dor: Apis dorsata, B.imp: Bombus impatiens, B.ter: Bombus terrestris, N.vit: Nasonia vitripennis (Wasp), B.mor: Bombyx mori (Silkworm), A.pis: Acyrthosiphon pisum, T.cas: Tribolium castaneum (Beetle). *Piwi/Aub represents the ortholog of the Drosophila Piwi and Aub proteins. # Yb BoYb and SoYb are the orthologs of TDRD12#.