Off-target piRNA gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster rescued by a transposable element insertion

• Danny E. Miller ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Danny E. Miller, Ana P. Dorador, Kelley Van Vaerenberghe

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-8601

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• Ana P. Dorador ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Danny E. Miller, Ana P. Dorador, Kelley Van Vaerenberghe

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Kelley Van Vaerenberghe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Danny E. Miller, Ana P. Dorador, Kelley Van Vaerenberghe

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

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• Angela Li,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Emily K. Grantham,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Stefan Cerbin,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6873-7688

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• Celeste Cummings,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Marilyn Barragan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Rhonda R. Egidy,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Allison R. Scott,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Kate E. Hall,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Anoja Perera,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-5293

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• William D. Gilliland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• R. Scott Hawley,

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

  Affiliations Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

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• Justin P. Blumenstiel

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

  * E-mail: jblumens@ku.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6221-9292

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