Mrinal N, Nagaraju J (2008) Intron loss is associated with gain of function in the evolution of gloverin family of antibacterial genes in Bombyx mori. Journal of Biological Chemistry (In Press).
Kanginakudru S, Metta M, Jakati RD, Nagaraju J (2008) Genetic evidence
from Indian red jungle fowl corroborates multiple domestication of modern
day chicken. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:174. [Download]
Arunkumar KP, Tomar A, Daimon T, Shimada T, Nagaraju J (2008) WildSilkbase: An EST database of wild silkmoths. BMC Genomics 9: 338. [Download]
Singh J, Nagaraju J (2008) In silico prediction and characterization of microRNAs from red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum). Insect Molecular Biology 17: 427-436. PDF
Archak S, Nagaraju J (2007) InSatDb: A Genomic Tool for Insect Geneticists. FLY 1:5, 279-281. PDF
Archak S, Nagaraju J (2007) Computational prediction of rice (Oryza sativa) miRNA targets. Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics 5: 196-206. PDF
Biju SD, Bocxlaer IV, Giri VB, Roelants K, Nagaraju J, Bossuyt F
(2007) A new rightfrog, Nyctibatrachus minimus sp. nov. (Anura:
Nyctibatrachidae): The smallest frog from India. Current Science 93:
854-858. PDF
Gandhe A S, John S H, Nagaraju J (2007) Noduler, a novel immune upregulated protein mediates nodulation response in insects. Journal of Immunology 179: 6943-6951 . PDF
Lakshminarayanareddy V, Archak S, Nagaraju J (2007) Capillary
electrophoresis is essential for microsatellite marker based detection
and quantification of adulteration of Basmati rice (Oryza sativa).
Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry 55: 8112-8117. PDF
Kanginakudru S, Royer C, Edupalli SV, Jalabert A, Mauchamp B, Chandrashekaraiah, Prasad S V, Chavancy G , Couble P, Nagaraju J (2007) Targeting ie-1 gene by RNAi induces baculoviral resistance in lepidopteran cell lines and in the transgenic silkworms. Insect Molecular Biology 16: 635-644. PDF
Archak S, Lakshminarayanareddy V, Nagaraju J (2007) High-throughput multiplex microsatellite marker assay for detection and quantification of adulteration in Basmati rice (Oryza sativa). Electrophoresis 28: 2396-2405.
Ravi Kumar A, Sathish V, Balakrish Nair G, Nagaraju J (2007) Genetic characterization of Vibrio cholerae strains by inter simple sequence repeat-PCR. FEMS Microbiology Letters 272: 251-258. PDF
Gandhe AS, Janardhan G, Nagaraju J (2007) Immune upregulation of novel antibacterial proteins from silkmoths (Lepidoptera) that resemble lysozymes but lack muramidase activity. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 655-666. PDF
Meglecz E, Anderson SJ, Bourguet D, Butcher R, Caldas A, Cassel-Lundhagen A, d'Acier AC, Dawson DA, Faure N, Fauvelot C, Franck P, Harper G, Keyghobadi N, Kluetsch C, Muthulakshmi M, Nagaraju J, Patt A, Petenian F, Silvain JF, Wilcock HR (2007) Microsatellite flanking region similarities among different loci within insect species. Insect Molecular Biology 16:175-85. PDF
Sreenu V, Kumar P, Nagaraju J, Nagarajaram H (2007) Simple sequence repeats in mycobacterial genomes. Journal of Biosciences 32: 3-15. [Download]
Archak S, Meduri E, Sravana Kumar P and Nagaraju J (2007) In
SatDb: A microsatellite database of fully sequenced insect genomes. Nucleic Acid
s Research 35: D36 - D39. [Download]
Arunkumar KP, Nagaraju J (2006) Unusually long palindromes are abundant in mitochondrial control regions of insects and nematodes. PLoS ONE 1: e110. [Download]
Bocxlaer IV, Roelants K, Biju SD, Nagaraju J, Bossuyt F (2006) Late cretaceous vicariance in gondwanan amphibians. PLoS ONE 1: e74. [Download]
Gandhe AS, Arunkumar KP, John SH, Nagaraju J (2006) Analysis of bacteria-challenged wild silkmoth, Antheraea mylitta (lepidoptera) transcriptome reveals potential immune genes. BMC Genomics 7: 184. [Download]
Sreenu VB, Kumar P, Nagaraju J, Nagarajaram HA (2006) Microsatellite polymorphism across the M. tuberculosis and M. bovis genomes: implications on genome evolution and plasticity. BMC Genomics 7: 78. [Download]
Khurad AM, Kanginakudru S, Qureshi SO, Rathod MK, Rai MM, Nagaraju J (2006) A new Bombyx mori larval ovarian cell line highly susceptible to nucleopolyhedrovirus. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 92: 59-65. PDF
Archak S, Nagaraju J (2006) Eicosapentapeptide repeats (EPRs): novel repeat proteins specific to flowering plants. Bioinformatics 22: 2455-2458. PDF
Arunkumar KP, Metta M, Nagaraju J (2006) Molecular phylogeny of silkmoths reveals the origin of domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori from Chinese Bombyx mandarina and paternal inheritance of Antheraea proylei mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 419-427. PDF
Johny S, Kanginakudru S, Muralirangan MC, Nagaraju J (2006) Morphological and molecular characterization of a new microsporidian (Protozoa: Microsporidia) isolated from Spodoptera litura (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Parasitology 132: 803-814. PDF
Singh Negi D, Alam M, Bhavani SA, Nagaraju J (2006) Multistep microsatellite mutation in the maternally transmitted locus D13S317: a case of maternal allele mismatch in the child. International Journal of Legal Medicine 120: 286-292. PDF
Miao XX, Xub SJ, Li MH, Li MW, Huang JH, Dai FY, Marino SW, Mills DR, Zeng P, Mita K, Jia SH, Zhang Y, Liu WB, Xiang H, Guo QH, Xu AY, Kong XY, Lin HX, Shi YZ, Lu G, Zhang X, Huang W, Yasukochi Y, Sugasaki T, Shimada T, Nagaraju J, Xiang ZH, Wang SY, Goldsmith MR, Lu C, Zhao GP, Huang YP (2005) Simple sequence repeat-based consensus linkage map of Bombyx mori. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 16303-16308. [Download]
Nagaraja GM, Mahesh G, Satish V, Madhu M, Muthulakshmi M, Nagaraju J (2005) Genetic mapping of Z chromosome and identification of W chromosome-specific markers in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Heredity 95: 148-157. PDF
Marec F, Neven LG, Robinson AS, Vreysen M, Goldsmith MR, Nagaraju J, Franz G (2005) Development of genetic sexing strains in Lepidoptera: from traditional to transgenic approaches. Journal of Economic Entomology 98: 248-259. PDF
Prasad MD, Muthulakshmi M, Madhu M, Archak S, Mita K, Nagaraju J (2005) Survey and analysis of microsatellites in the silkworm, Bombyx mori: frequency, distribution, mutations, marker potential and their conservation in heterologous species. Genetics 169: 197-214. [Download]
Prasad MD, Muthulakshmi M, Arunkumar KP, Madhu M, Sreenu VB, Pavithra V, Bose B, Nagarajaram HA, Mita K, Shimada T, Nagaraju J (2005) SilkSatDb: a microsatellite database of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Nucleic Acids Research 33: D403-406. [Download]
Nagaraja, Nagaraju J, Ranganath HA (2004) Molecular phylogeny of the nasuta subgroup of Drosophila based on 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA and CoI mitochondrial genes, RAPD and ISSR polymorphisms. Genes and Genetic Systems 79: 293-299. PDF
Nagaraju J (2004) Spider silks: A possible key to evolution of spiders. Heredity 93: 520-521.PDF
Metta M, Kanginakudru S, Gudiseva N, Nagaraju J (2004) Genetic characterization of the Indian cattle breeds, Ongole and Deoni (Bos indicus), using microsatellite markers - a preliminary study. BMC Genetics 5: 16. [Download]
Khurad AM, Mahulikar A, Rathod MK, Rai MM, Kanginakudru S, Nagaraju J (2004) Vertical transmission of nucleopolyhedrovirus in the silkworm, Bombyx mori L. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 87: 8-15. PDF
Nageswara Rao S, Muthulakshmi M, Kanginakudru S, Nagaraju J (2004) Phylogenetic relationships of three new microsporidian isolates from the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 86: 87-95. PDF
Yasodha R, Kathirvel M, Sumathi R, Gurumurthi K, Archak S, Nagaraju J (2004) Genetic analyses of casuarinas using ISSR and FISSR markers. Genetica 122: 161-172. PDF
Awasthi AK, Nagaraja GM, Naik GV, Kanginakudru S, Thangavelu K, Nagaraju J (2004) Genetic diversity and relationships in mulberry (genus Morus) as revealed by RAPD and ISSR marker assays. BMC Genetics 5: 1. [Download]
Kanginakudru S, Subbaiah EV, Couble P, Nagaraju J (2003) LepidopteraAbstracts. Towards development of baculoviral resistant strains of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Sixth International Workshop on the Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Science 3: 36. [Download]
Sreenu VB, Ranjitkumar G, Swaminathan S, Priya S, Bose B, Pavan PM, Nagaraju J, Nagarajaram HA (2004) MICdb - Database of Prokaryotic Microsatellites. Nucleic Acids Research (Published in online database issue). [Download]
Sreenu VB, Ranjitkumar G, Swaminathan S, Priya S, Bose B, Pavan MN, Thanu G, Nagaraju J, Nagarajaram HA (2003) MICAS: a fully automated web server for microsatellite extraction and analysis from prokaryote and viral genomic sequences. Applied Bioinformatics 2: 165-168. PDF
Prasad MD, Han SJ, Nagaraju J, Lee WJ, Brey PT (2003) Cloning and characterization of an eukaryotic initiation factor-2alpha kinase from the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1628: 56-63. PDF
Prasad MD, Nagaraju J (2003) A comparative phylogenetic analysis of full-length mariner elements isolated from the Indian tasar silkmoth, Antheraea mylitta (Lepidoptera: saturniidae). Journal of Biosciences 28: 443-453. PDF
Sreenu VB, Alevoor V, Nagaraju J, Nagarajaram HA (2003) MICdb: database of prokaryotic microsatellites. Nucleic Acids Research 31: 106-108. [Download]
Priyadarshini P, Murthy BS, Nagaraju J, Singh L (2003) A GATA-binding protein expressed predominantly in the pupal ovary of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 33: 185-195. PDF
Nagaraju J (2002) Recent advances in silkworm biology. Current Science (Editor, Special Issue) 83: 409-471. [Download]
Nagaraju J (2002) Application of genetic principles for improving silk production. Current Science 83: 409-414. [Download]
Nagaraju J, Goldsmith MR (2002) Silkworm genomics - progress and prospects. Current Science 83: 415-425. [Download]
Nagaraju J, Kathirvel M, Kumar RR, Siddiq EA, Hasnain SE (2002) Genetic analysis of traditional and evolved Basmati and non-Basmati rice varieties by using fluorescence-based ISSR-PCR and SSR markers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99: 5836-5841. [Download]
Nagaraju J, Kathirvel M, Subbaiah EV, Muthulakshmi M, Kumar LD (2002) FISSR-PCR: a simple and sensitive assay for highthroughput genotyping and genetic mapping. Molecular and Cellular Probes 16: 67-72. PDF
Prasad MD, Nurminsky DL, Nagaraju J (2002) Characterization and molecular phylogenetic analysis of mariner elements from wild and domesticated species of silkmoths. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25: 210-217. PDF
Nagaraju J (2001) Identification of a gene associated with Bt resistance in the lepidopteran pest, Heliothis virescens and its implications in Bt transgenic-based pest control. Current Science 81: 746-747. [Download]
Jain D, Nair DT, Swaminathan GJ, Abraham EG, Nagaraju J, Salunke DM (2001) Structure of the induced antibacterial protein from tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta. Implications to molecular evolution. Journal of Biological Chemistry 276: 41377-41382. PDF
Nagaraju J, Reddy KD, Nagaraja GM, Sethuraman BN (2001) Comparison of multilocus RFLPs and PCR-based marker systems for genetic analysis of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Heredity 86: 588-597. PDF
Kumar LD, Kathirvel M, Rao GV, Nagaraju J (2001) DNA profiling of disputed chilli samples (Capsicum annum) using ISSR-PCR and FISSR-PCR marker assays. Forensic Science International 116: 63-68. PDF
Nagaraju J (2000) Recent advances in molecular genetics of the silk moth, Bombyx mori. Current Science 78: 746-747. [Download]
Nagaraju J, Klimenko V, Couble P (2000) The silkworm Bombyx mori, a model genetic system, In: Encyclopedia of Genetics; Reeves E, editor. London, UK: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Reddy KD, Nagaraju J, Abraham EG (1999) Genetic characterization of the silkworm Bombyx mori by simple sequence repeat (SSR)-anchored PCR. Heredity 83: 681-687. PDF
Reddy KD, Abraham EG, Nagaraju J (1999) Microsatellites in the silkworm, Bombyx mori: abundance, polymorphism, and strain characterization. Genome 42: 1057-1065. PDF
Sharma A, Niphadkar MP, Kathirvelu P, Nagaraju J, Singh L (1999) DNA fingerprinting variability within and among the silkworm Bombyx mori genotypes and estimation of their genetic relatedness using Bkm-derived probe. Journal of Heredity 90: 315-319. PDF
Nagaraju JG, Singh L (1997) Assessment of genetic diversity by DNA profiling and its significance in silkworm, Bombyx mori. Electrophoresis 18: 1676-1681. PDF
Nagaraju J, Kanda T, Tamura T, Coulon M, Couble P (1996) Attempts at transgenesis of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) by egg injection of foreign DNA. Applied Entomology and Zoology 31: 587-596.
Nagaraju J, Sharma A, Sethuraman BN, Rao GV, Singh L (1995) DNA fingerprinting in silkworm Bombyx mori using banded krait minor satellite DNA-derived probe. Electrophoresis 16: 1639-1642. PDF
Nagaraja GM, Nagaraju J (1995) Genome fingerprinting of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, using random arbitrary primers. Electrophoresis 16: 1633-1638. PDF
Abraham EG, Nagaraju J, Salunke D, Gupta HM, Datta RK (1995) Purification and partial characterization of an induced antibacterial protein in the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 65: 17-24. PDF
Nagaraju J, Abraham EG (1995) Purification and characterisation of amylase in tasar silkworm, Antheraea mylitta. Comparative Biochemistry And Physiology - Part B 110B: 201-209. PDF
Nagaraju J, Kumar PT (1995) Effect of selection of cocoon filament length in divergently selected lines of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. Journal of Sericulture Science Japan 64: 103-109.
Abraham EG, Nagaraju J, Datta RK (1992) Biochemical studies of amylase in silkworm, Bombyx mori (I) Comparative analysis in diapausing and non-diapausing strain. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 22: 867-873. PDF
Nagaraju J, Jolly MS (1986) Interspecific hybrids of Antheraea pernyi and A. roylei - A cytogenetic reassessment. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 72: 269-273. PDF
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