Justin Blumenstiel

Summary

Affiliation: University of Kansas
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Molecular evolution under increasing transposable element burden in Drosophila: a speed limit on the evolutionary arms race
    Dean M Castillo
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:258. 2011
  2. ncbi Components of the RNAi machinery that mediate long-distance chromosomal associations are dispensable for meiotic and early somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila melanogaster
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
    Genetics 180:1355-65. 2008
  3. ncbi Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in a small RNA world
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
    Trends Genet 27:23-31. 2011
  4. ncbi Telomeres: a new means to an end
    Justin Blumenstiel
    University of Kansas, 2041 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
    Curr Biol 21:R32-4. 2011
  5. ncbi The formation of the central element of the synaptonemal complex may occur by multiple mechanisms: the roles of the N- and C-terminal domains of the Drosophila C(3)G protein in mediating synapsis and recombination
    Jennifer K Jeffress
    Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
    Genetics 177:2445-56. 2007
  6. ncbi Identification of EMS-induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by whole-genome sequencing
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Department of Physiology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
    Genetics 182:25-32. 2009

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Publications6

  1. ncbi Molecular evolution under increasing transposable element burden in Drosophila: a speed limit on the evolutionary arms race
    Dean M Castillo
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 11:258. 2011
    ..Third, we test whether increasing TE abundance is correlated with greater codon bias in genes of the piRNA machinery. This is predicted if increasing TE abundance selects for increased efficiency in the machinery of genome defense...
  2. ncbi Components of the RNAi machinery that mediate long-distance chromosomal associations are dispensable for meiotic and early somatic homolog pairing in Drosophila melanogaster
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
    Genetics 180:1355-65. 2008
    ..Thus, there appears to be at least two mechanisms that bring homologous sequences together within the nucleus: those that act between dispersed homologous sequences and those that act to align and pair homologous chromosomes...
  3. ncbi Evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements in a small RNA world
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
    Trends Genet 27:23-31. 2011
    ..The analysis of TE dynamics from these two perspectives promises to provide new insight into their role in evolution...
  4. ncbi Telomeres: a new means to an end
    Justin Blumenstiel
    University of Kansas, 2041 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
    Curr Biol 21:R32-4. 2011
    ..A new study in Drosophila indicates that gene duplication has allowed telomere protection to be partitioned between the soma and the specialized chromatin environment of sperm...
  5. ncbi The formation of the central element of the synaptonemal complex may occur by multiple mechanisms: the roles of the N- and C-terminal domains of the Drosophila C(3)G protein in mediating synapsis and recombination
    Jennifer K Jeffress
    Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
    Genetics 177:2445-56. 2007
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  6. ncbi Identification of EMS-induced mutations in Drosophila melanogaster by whole-genome sequencing
    Justin P Blumenstiel
    Department of Physiology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
    Genetics 182:25-32. 2009
    ..This new method of whole-genome sequencing represents great promise for mutant mapping in flies, potentially replacing conventional methods...