Genome Organization and Gene Expression Shape the Transposable Element Distribution in the Drosophila melanogaster Euchromatin

Pierre Fontanillas; Daniel L Hartl; Max Reuter

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030210

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Genome Organization and Gene Expression Shape the Transposable Element Distribution in the Drosophila melanogaster Euchromatin

Pierre Fontanillas,

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Daniel L Hartl,

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Max Reuter

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.reuter@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation The Galton Laboratory, Department of Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Genome Organization and Gene Expression Shape the Transposable Element Distribution in the Drosophila melanogaster Euchromatin

Pierre Fontanillas,
Daniel L Hartl,
Max Reuter

Published: November 30, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030210

About the Authors

Pierre Fontanillas

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel L Hartl

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Max Reuter

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.reuter@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation The Galton Laboratory, Department of Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PF and MR conceived and designed the experiments. PF and MR analyzed the data. DLH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. PF, DLH, and MR wrote the paper.

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