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- Pianezza R.*, Scarpa A.*, Haider A., Signor, S., Kofler R. (2025) Spatiotemporal Tracking of Three Novel Transposable Element Invasions in Drosophila melanogaster over the Last 30 Years; Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 (7), msaf143;
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf143 - Scarpa A.*, Pianezza R.*, Gellert HR., Kim BY., Lai EC., Kofler R.$ Signor, S.$ (2025) Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years; Nature Communications 16 (1), 516;
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55779-6 - Pianezza R., Haider A., Kofler R. (2024) GenomeDelta: detecting recent transposable element invasions without repeat library; Genome Biology 25 (1), 315; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-024-03459-5
- Scarpa A.*, Pianezza R.*, Wierzbicki F., Kofler R. (2024) Genomes of historical specimens reveal multiple invasions of LTR retrotransposons in Drosophila melanogaster during the 19tht century; PNAS 121 (15) e2313866121; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313866121
- Selvaraju D., Wierzbicki F., Kofler R. (2024) Experimentally evolving Drosophila erecta populations may fail to establish an effective piRNA based host defense against invading P-elements; Genome Research 34 (3) 410-425; https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.278706.123
- Pianezza R.*, Scarpa A.*, Narayanan P., Signor S.$ Kofler R.$ (2024)
- Spoink, a LTR retrotransposon, invaded Drosophila melanogaster populations in the 1990s; PLOS Genetics 20 (3) e1011201; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011201
- Schwarz F., Wierzbicki F., Senti KA. and Kofler R. (2021) Tirant stealthily invaded natural Drosophila melanogaster populations during the last century; Molecular Biology and Evolution; doi
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa308 - Kofler R. (2019) Dynamics of transposable element invasions with piRNA clusters; Molecular Biology and Evolution 36 (7), 1457-1472; https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz079
- Kofler R., Senti K., Nolte V., Tobler R and Schlötterer C. (2018) Molecular dissection of a natural transposable element invasion; Genome Research 28 (6), 824-835; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.228627.117
- Kofler R., Hill T., Betancourt A., Nolte V. and Schlötterer C. (2015) The recent invasion of natural Drosophila simulans populations by the P-element; PNAS 112 (21), 6659-6663;
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1500758112
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