Lab Publications

• Lama, J. §, Srivastav, S. †,, Tasnim, S., †, Hubbard, D. A. †, and Kelleher, E.S.* Natural tolerance to transposition is associated with Myc-regulation and DNA repair. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.12.380154v1 

• Wang L., Barbash D.A., Kelleher E.S. (2020) Adaptive evolution among cytoplasmic piRNA proteins leads to decreased genomic auto-immunity. PLoS Genetics, 16: e1008861.

• Kelleher E.S., Barbash D.A., and Blumenstiel J.P. (2020). Taming the Turmoil Within: New Insights on the Containment of Transposable Elements. Trends in Genetics, 36:474-489.

• Zhang S., Pointer, B., and Kelleher E.S.* (2020) Rapid evolution of piRNA-mediated silencing of an invading transposable element was driven by abundant de novo mutations. Genome Research, 30:566-575.

• Kelleher E.S., Lama J., Wang L.§ (2020) Uninvited guests: how transposable elements take advantage of Drosophila germline stem cells, and how stem cells fight back. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 37:49-56.

• Kelleher E.S. , Jaweria J. , Akoma U., Ortega L. , Tang W. (2018) QTL mapping of natural variation reveals that the developmental regulator bruno reduces tolerance to P-element transposition in the Drosophila female germline. PLoS Biology. 16:e2006040.

• Kelleher E.S., Azevedo R.B.R., Zheng Y. (2018) The Evolution Of Small RNA-Mediated Silencing Of An Invading Transposable Element. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10:3038-3057.

• Tasnim S., Kelleher E.S.  (2018) p53 is required for female germline stem cell maintenance in P -element hybrid dysgenesis. Developmental Biology. 434:215-220.

• Kelleher E.S. * (2017) Retrotransposons: Stowaways in the Primordial Germline. Curr Biol. 27:R1066-R1068. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.059.

• Zhang S., Kelleher E.S. (2017) Targeted identification of TE insertions in a Drosophila genome through hemi-specific PCR. Mob DNA. 8:10.

• Srivastav S.P. †, Kelleher E.S. (2017) Paternal induction of hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster is weakly correlated with both P-element and hobo element dosage. G3. 7: 1487–1497.

• Kelleher E.S. (2016) Re-examining the Classic P-element Invasion of Drosophila melanogaster through the Lens of piRNA-Mediated Silencing. Genetics. 203:1513-1531.