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Dr. Ellen J. Pritham - Publications

Colbourne JK et al. The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex. Science. 2011 Feb 4;331(6017):555-61.

Thomas J, Sorourian M, Ray D, Baker RJ, Pritham EJ. The limited distribution of Helitrons to vesper bats supports horizontal transfer. Gene. 2010 Dec 27. [Epub ahead of print]

Arensburger P et al. (2010) Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus establishes a platform for mosquito comparative genomics. Science. Oct 1; 330(6000):86-88.

Thomas J, Schaack S, & Pritham EJ (2010) Pervasive horizontal transfer of rolling-circle transposons among animals. Genome Biology and Evolution, Aug 6; 185(4): 1507-17.

Marquez CP & Pritham EJ (2010) Phantom, a New Subclass of Mutator DNA Transposons Found in Insect Viruses and Widely Distributed in Animals. Genetics, May 2010 (Epub ahead of print).

Schaack S, Choi E, Lynch M, Pritham EJ (2010) DNA transposons and the role of recombination in mutation accumulation in Daphnia pulex. Genome Biol. 2010 Apr 30;11(4) (Epub ahead of print).

Schaack S, Pritham EJ, Wolf A & Lynch M (2010) DNA transposon dynamics in populations of Daphnia pulex with and without sex. Proc Biol Sci. March 31 (Epub ahead of print).

The International Brachypodium Initiative (2010) Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon. Nature 463, 763-768.

Feschotte C & Pritham EJ (2009) A cornucopia of Helitrons shapes the maize genome. PNAS 106 (47), 19747–19748. [PDF]

Pritham, EJ (2009) Transposable elements and factors influencing their success in eukaryotes. J Hered.100(5), 648-55. [PDF]

Bustos O, Naik S, Ayers G, Casola C, Perez-Lamigueiro MA, Chippindale PT, Pritham EJ, de la Casa-Esperón E. (2009) Evolution of the Schlafen genes, a gene family associated with embryonic lethality, meiotic drive, immune processes and orthopoxvirus virulence. Gene 447 (1), 1-11. [ PDF ]

Ray DA, Feschotte C, Pagan HJ, Smith JD, Pritham EJ, Arensburger P, Atkinson PW, Craig NL (2008) Multiple waves of recent DNA transposon activity in the bat, Myotis lucifugus. Genome Res. 2008 May;18(5):717-28. Epub 2008 Mar 13.

Feschotte C & Pritham EJ (2007) DNA Transposons and the Evolution of Eukaryotic Genomes. in Annual Review of Genetics Vol. 41 in press for December 2007

Pritham EJ & C Feschotte (2007) Massive amplification of rolling-circle transposons in the lineage of the bat Myotis lucifugus: PNAS vol.104 (6),1895–1900.

Feschotte C & Pritham EJ (2007) Computational Analysis and Paleogenomics of Interspersed Repeats in Eukaryotes. in Computational Genomics: Current Methods Ed: N. Stojanovic. Horizon Scientific Press Pp. 31-53 2007.

Pritham EJ, Putliwala T & Feschotte C (2007) Mavericks, a novel class of giant transposable elements widespread in eukaryotes and related to DNA viruses. Gene 1;390(1-2):3-17.

Holligan D, Zhang X, Jiang N, Pritham EJ & Wessler SR (2006) The transposable element landscape of the model legume Lotus japonicus Genetics 174(4): 2215-28.

Pritham EJ (2006) The Battle Within. American Journal of Human Biology. 18:727-728.

Feschotte C & Pritham EJ (2006) Mobile DNA: genomes under the influence. Genome Biology 7:320-324.

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.

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.