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2023

Miller, D.M, Van Vaerenberghe, K., Dorador, A.P., Li, A., Grantham, E.K, Cerbin, S., Cummings, C., Barragan, M., Egidy, R.R., Scott, A.R., Hall, K., Perera, A., Gilliland, W.D., Hawley, R.S. and Blumenstiel. J.P. Off-target piRNA gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster ​rescued by a transposable element insertion. PLOS Genetics. 2023.  Link.


​2022

Dorador, A.P., Dalikova, M., Cerbin, S., Stillman, C.M., Zych, M.G., Hawley, R.S., Miller, D.E., Ray, D.A., Funikov, S.Y., Evgen'ev, M.B. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Paramutation-like epigenetic conversion by piRNA at the telomere of Drosophila virilis. Biology. 2022. Link.

Wei, K., Aldaimalani, R., Mai, D., Zinshteyn, D., Satyaki, P.R.V., Blumenstiel, J.P., Kelleher, E.S. and Brooks, E.  Rethinking the "gypsy" retrotransposon: A roadmap for community-driven reconsideration of problematic gene names. OSF Preprints. 2022. Link. 

2021

Rezvykh, A,.P., Funikov, S.Y., Protsenko, L.A., Kulikova, D.A., Zelentsova, E.S., Chuvakova, L.N., Blumenstiel, J.P. and Evgene'ev, M.B. Evolutionary dynamics of pericentric heterochromatin in Drosophila virilis and related species. Genes. 2021. Link.

2020

Kelleher, E.S., Barbash, D.A. and Blumenstiel, J.P.  Taming the Turmoil Within: New Insights on the Containment of Transposable Elements. Trends in Genetics. 2020. Link. 

Hemmer, L.W., Dias, G.B., Smith, B., Van Vaerenberghe, K., Howard, A., Bergman, C.M. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis results in clusters of mitotic recombination and loss-of-heterozygosity but leaves meiotic recombination unaltered. Mobile DNA. 2020. Link. 

2019

Blumenstiel, J.P.  Birth, School, Work, Death and Resurrection: The life stages and dynamics of transposable element proliferation. Genes. 2019. Link.

Erwin, A.A. and Blumenstiel, J.P.  Aging in the Drosophila ovary: Contrasting changes in the expression of the piRNA machinery and mitochondria but no global release of transposable elements. BMC Genomics. 2019. 20:305. Link. 

2018

Meiklejohn, C.D. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Invasion of the P elements: Tolerance is not futile. PLoS Biology. 2018. Link. Primer.

Blumenstiel, J.P. and Meiklejohn, C.D. RNAi doxxes segregation distorters on the X. Developmental Cell. 2018. Link. Preview article.

Funikov, S.Y., Kulikova, D.A., Krasnov, G.S., Rezvykh, A.P., Chuvakova, L.N., Shostak, N.G., Zelentsova, E.Z., Blumenstiel, J.P., Evgen’ev, M.B. Spontaneous gain of susceptibility suggests a novel mechanism of resistance to hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis. 2018. PLoS Genetics. Link. 

2017

Groth, S.B. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Horizontal transfer can drive a greater transposable element load in larger populations. Journal of Heredity. 2017. Link. Modified code from Dolgin and Charlesworth.

2016

Blumenstiel, J.P., Erwin, A.A., and Hemmer, L.W. What drives positive selection in the piRNA machinery? A genomic autoimmunity hypothesis. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 2016. Link.

Hemmer, L.W. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Holding it together: Rapid evolution and positive selection in the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2016. Link.

D. E. Miller, C. B. Smith, N. Yeganeh Kazemi, A. J. Cockrell, A. V. Arvanitakis, J. P. Blumenstiel, S. L. Jaspersen, R. S. Hawley. Whole-Genome Analysis of Individual Meiotic Events in Drosophila melanogaster Reveals that Noncrossover Gene Conversions are Insensitive to Interference and the Centromere Effect. Genetics. 2016. Link.

2015

Erwin, A.A, Galdos, M.A, Wickersheim, M.L., Harrison, C.C, Marr, K.D, Colicchio, J.M. and Blumenstiel, J.P. piRNAs are associated with diverse transgenerational effects on gene and transposon expression in a hybrid dysgenic syndrome of D. virilis. PLoS Genetics. 2015. Link.

Blumenstiel, J.P. Population Genetics of Transposable Elements. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. 2015.

2014

Collins, K.A., Unruh, J.A., Slaughter, B.D., Yu, Z., Lake, C.M., Nielsen, R.J., Box, K.S., Miller, D.E., Blumenstiel, J.P.Perera, A.G., Malanowski, K.E and Hawley, R.S. Corolla is a novel protein that contributes to the architecture of the synaptonemal complex of Drosophila. Genetics. 2014. 198(1):219-228. Link.

Blumenstiel, J.P. Whole genome sequencing in Drosophila virilis identifies Polyphemus, a Tc-1 like transposon with a possible role in hybrid dysgenesis. Mobile DNA. 2014. Link.

Blumenstiel, J.P., Chen, X., He, M. and C.M. Bergman. An age-of-allele test of neutrality for transposable element insertions not at equilibrium. Genetics. 2014. Link.

2013

Wickersheim, M.L. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Terminator oligo blocking efficiently eliminates rRNA from Drosophila small RNA sequencing libraries. BioTechnques 2013. Link.

2012

Miller, D.E., Takeo, S., Nandanan, K., Paulson, A., Gogol, M.M., Noll, A.C., Perera, A.G., Walton, K.N., Gilliland, W.D., Li, H., Staehling, K.K., Blumenstiel, J.P.* and Hawley, R.S*. A whole-chromosome analysis of meiotic recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2012. Link.
*These authors contributed equally.

2011

Castillo, D.M., Mell, J.C., Box, K.S. and Blumenstiel, J.P. Molecular evolution under increasing transposable element burden in Drosophila: A speed limit on the evolutionary arms race. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2011. Here.

Blumenstiel JP. Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in a small RNA world. Trends in Genetics. 27(1):23-31. 2011. Here.

Blumenstiel JP. Telomeres: A new means to an end. Current Biology. 21(1):R32-R3. 2011. Here.

2009

JP Blumenstiel, AC Noll, JA Griffiths, AG Perera, KN Walton, WD Gilliland, RS Hawley and K. Staehling-Hampton. Identification of EMS-Induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Genetics. 182:25-32. 2009. Here.

2008

JP Blumenstiel, R Fu, WD Theurkauf and RS Hawley. Components of the RNAi machinery that mediate long distance chromosome interactions are dispensable for meiotic and mitotic pairing. Genetics. 180:1355-1365. 2008. Here

Prior to 2008

JK Jeffress, SL Page, SK Royer, ED Belden, JP Blumenstiel, LK Anderson and RS Hawley. The formation of the central element of the synaptonemal complex may occur by multiple mechanisms: the roles of the N- and C-terminal domains of the Drosophila C(3)G protein in mediating synapsis and recombination. Genetics. 177(4):2445-56. 2007. Here.

6. JP Blumenstiel. Sperm competition can drive a male-biased mutation rate. J. Theor. Biol. 249(3):624-32. 2007. Here.

5. JP Blumenstiel and DL Hartl. Evidence for maternally transmitted small interfering RNA in the repression of transposition in Drosophila virilis. PNAS. 102(44):15965-70. 2005. Here.

4. DE Neafsey, JP Blumenstiel and DL Hartl. Different regulatory mechanisms underlie similar transposable element profiles ini pufferfish and fruitflies. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(12):2310-8. 2004. Here.

3. JP Blumenstiel, DL Hartl and ER Lozovsky. Patterns of insertion and deletion in contrasting chromatin domains. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(12):2211-25. 2002. Here.

2. B Jordan, A Charest, JF Dowd, JP Blumenstiel, RF Yeh, A Osman, DE Housman and JE Landers. Genome complexity reduction for SNP genotyping analysis. PNAS. 99(5):2942-7. 2002. Here.

1. H Kawasaki, GM Springett, S Toki, JJ Canales, P Harlan, JP Blumenstiel, EJ Chen, IA Bany, N Mochizuki, A Asbacher, M Matsuda, DE Housman and AM Graybiel. A Rap guanine nucleotide exchange factor enriched highly in the basal ganglia. PNAS. 95(22):13278-83. 1998. Here.