Justin P. Blumenstiel

Replacing the c(3)G gene in Drosophila melanogaster with that of Drosophila mauritiana alters crossover patterns, reducing the centromere effect and increasing centromere-proximal crossovers.

This paper presents a SNP-based crossover map for Drosophila mauritiana, showing reduced centromere suppression of crossing over compared to D. melanogaster.

The paper shows how a transposon insertion can trigger germline gene silencing via piRNA biogenesis and how a second insertion can reverse this silencing by altering the same process.

The paper examines how meiotic recombination in Drosophila virilis is affected by transposable element activation during hybrid dysgenesis, finding it robust but with mitotic recombination effects.