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Dr. Cédric Feschotte - Publications

Feschotte C (2008) Transposable elements and the evolution of regulatory networks. Nature Reviews Genetics [Mar 27; Epub ahead of print]

Ray DA*, Feschotte C*, Smith JD, Pagan HJT, Pritham EJ, Arensburger P, Atkinson PW & Craig NL (2008) Multiple waves of recent DNA transposon activity in the bat Myotis lucifugus. Genome Research [Mar 13; Epub ahead of print] * These authors contributed equally to this work

Feschotte C. (2008) Evolutionary history and impact of human DNA transposons. In: Handbook of Human Molecular Evolution (D. Cooper, ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Wiley and Sons. Also published online Mar 14 in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Casola C*, Hucks DV* & Feschotte C (2008) Convergent domestication of pogo-like transposases into centromere-binding proteins in mammals and fission yeast. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25:29-41 *These authors contributed equally to this work

Singh A., Feschotte C. & Stojanovic N. (2008) Micro-repetitive structure of genomic sequences and the identification of ancient repeat elements. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007)

Lin R, Ding L, Casola C, Ripoll DR, Feschotte C & Wang H. (2007) Lin R, Ding L, Casola C, Ripoll DR, Feschotte C & Wang H. Transposase-derived transcription factors regulate light signaling in Arabidopsis. Science 318:1302-1305

Feschotte C. & Pritham E.J. (2007) DNA transposons and evolution of the eukaryotic genome. Annual Review of Genetics 41:331-338

Casola C., Betran E. & Feschotte C. (2007) PIF-like transposons are common in Drosophila and have been repeatedly domesticated to generate new host genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24: 1872-1888

Singh A., Feschotte C. & Stojanovic N. (2007) A study of the repetitive structure and distribution of short motifs in human genomic sequences. Int. J. Bioinformatics Research and Applications 3: 523-535

Pace J.K, II & Feschotte C. (2007) The evolutionary history of human DNA transposons: evidence for intense activity in the primate lineage. Genome Research 17:422-432  

Feschotte C. & Pritham E.J. (2007) Computational analysis and paleogenomics of interspersed repeats in eukaryotes. in Computational Genomics: Current Methods (N. Stojanovic ed.) Horizon Scientific Press. Pp. 31-53

Pritham E.J. & Feschotte C. (2007) Massive amplification of rolling-circle transposons in the lineage of the bat Myotis lucifugus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:1895-1900 Note: The authors contributed equally to this work.

Bai Y, Casola C, Feschotte C & Betran E‡ (2007) Constant rate of origination and convergent acquisition of functional retrogenes in Drosophila. Genome Biology 8:R11

Pritham E.J., Putliwala T. & Feschotte C. (2007) Mavericks, a novel class of giant transposable elements widespread in eukaryotes and related to DNA viruses. Gene 390:3-17

Feschotte C. (2006) The piggyBac transposon holds promises for human gene therapy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 14981-14982 [commentary]

Feschotte C. & Pritham E.J. (2006) Mobile DNA: genomes under the influence. Genome Biology 7:320-324 [meeting report]

Cordaux R, Udit S., Batzer MA & Feschotte C (2006) Birth of a chimeric primate gene by capture of the transposase gene from a mobile element. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 8101-8106

Ranganathan N, Feschotte C & Levine D (2006) Cluster- and Grid-based classification of transposable elements in eukaryotic genomes. Proceedings of the sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID2006) (in press)

Feschotte C & Pritham EJ (2005) Non-mammalian c-integrases are encoded by giant transposable elements. Trends in Genetics. 21:551-552

Pritham EJ, Feschotte C & Wessler SR (2005) Unexpected diversity and differential success of DNA transposons in four species of Entamoeba protozoans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22:1751-1763

Feschotte C, Osterlund MT, Peeler R & Wessler SR (2005) DNA binding specificity of rice mariner-like transposases and interactions with Stowaway MITEs. Nucleic Acids Res. 33:2153-2165

Feschotte C (2004) Merlin, a new superfamily of DNA transposons identified in diverse animal genomes and related to bacterial IS1016 insertion sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution 9: 1769-1780

Jiang N, Feschotte C, Zhang X & Wessler SR (2004) Using rice to understand the origin and amplification of MITEs. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 7:115-119

Zhang X, Jiang N, Feschotte C & Wessler SR (2004) PIF- and Pong-like transposable elements: distribution, evolution and relationships with Tourist-like MITEs. Genetics 166:971-986

Pritham EJ, Zhang YH, Feschotte C & Kesseli RV (2003) An Ac-like transposable element family with trancriptionally active Y-linked copies in the white campion, Silene latifolia. Genetics 165: 799-807

Feschotte C, Swamy L & Wessler SR (2003) Genome-wide analysis of mariner-like transposable elements reveals complex relationships with Stowaway MITEs. Genetics 163: 747-758

Feschotte C, Jiang N & Wessler SR (2002) Plant transposable elements: where genetics meets genomics. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 329-341

Feschotte C, Zhang X & Wessler SR (2002) Miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) and their relationship with established DNA transposons. in Mobile DNA II (Craig N, Craigie R, Gellert M & Lambowitz A, eds.) American Society of Microbiology Press. Washington D.C.

Feschotte C & Wessler SR (2002) Mariner-like transposases are widespread and diverse in flowering plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 280-285

Zhang X, Feschotte C, Zhang Q, Jiang N, Eggleston WB & Wessler SR (2001) P instability factor: An active maize transposon system associated with the amplification of Tourist-like MITEs and a new superfamily of transposases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:12572-12577

Feschotte C & Wessler SR (2001) Treasures in the attic: Rolling circle transposons discovered in eukaryotic genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 8923-8924

Feschotte C, Fourrier N, Desmons I, Mouchès C (2001) Birth of a retroposon: The Twin SINE family from the vector mosquito Culex pipiens may have originated from a dimeric tRNA precursor. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:74-84

Feschotte C & Mouchès C (2000) Recent amplification of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in the vector mosquito Culex pipiens: characterization of the Mimo family. Gene 250:109-116

Feschotte C & Mouchès C (2000) Evidence that a family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) from the Arabidopsis thaliana genome has arisen from a pogo-like DNA transposon. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:730-737