Islands of retroelements are major components of Drosophila centromeres

• Ching-Ho Chang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Ho Chang, Ankita Chavan, Jason Palladino

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester; Rochester, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9361-1190

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• Ankita Chavan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Ho Chang, Ankita Chavan, Jason Palladino

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Jason Palladino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ching-Ho Chang, Ankita Chavan, Jason Palladino

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2520-4117

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• Xiaolu Wei,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Genetics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9952-3757

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• Nuno M. C. Martins,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3953-9313

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• Bryce Santinello,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Chin-Chi Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8894-5636

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• Jelena Erceg,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Brian J. Beliveau,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Chao-Ting Wu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5525-871X

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• Amanda M. Larracuente ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: barbara.mellone@uconn.edu (BGM); alarracu@bio.rochester.edu (AML)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester; Rochester, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5944-5686

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• Barbara G. Mellone

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: barbara.mellone@uconn.edu (BGM); alarracu@bio.rochester.edu (AML)

  Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2785-5119

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