Shawn Christensen

Footprint of the retrotransposon R2Bm protein on its target site before and after cleavage.

R2 target-primed reverse transcription: ordered cleavage and polymerization steps by protein subunits asymmetrically bound to the target DNA.

Role of the Bombyx mori R2 element N-terminal domain in the target-primed reverse transcription (TPRT) reaction.

RNA from the 5' end of the R2 retrotransposon controls R2 protein binding to and cleavage of its DNA target site.

Isoenergetic penta- and hexanucleotide microarray probing and chemical mapping provide a secondary structure model for an RNA element orchestrating R2 retrotransposon protein function.

Secondary structures for 5' regions of R2 retrotransposon RNAs reveal a novel conserved pseudoknot and regions that evolve under different constraints.

Convergently recruited nuclear transport retrogenes are male biased in expression and evolving under positive selection in Drosophila.

The lipid language of plant-fungal interactions.

Independently derived targeting of 28S rDNA by A- and D-clade R2 retrotransposons: Plasticity of integration mechanism.

A novel, conditional, lesion mimic phenotype in cotton cotyledons due to the expression of an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens.

Targeting novel sites: The N-terminal DNA binding domain of non-LTR retrotransposons is an adaptable module that is implicated in changing site specificities.