Ni‐Chen Chang

Gag proteins encoded by endogenous retroviruses are required for zebrafish development

This study shows that active endogenous retroviruses in zebrafish encode Gag proteins essential for embryonic development, with specific roles in mesoderm and neural crest formation.

Transposable elements drive the evolution of metazoan zinc finger genes

This study shows that transposable elements drive the evolution of metazoan zinc finger genes through genomic conflict, with ZNFs binding TEs and repressing them during early development.

A genomic portrait of zebrafish transposable elements and their spatiotemporal embryonic expression

This study characterizes zebrafish transposable elements (TEs) using bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing, revealing their dynamic genomic distribution and spatiotemporal expression patterns during embryogenesis.

phiC31 integrase for recombination mediated single copy insertion and genome manipulation in C. elegans

The paper adapts the phiC31 integrase system for C. elegans to enable efficient transgene integration and chromosomal inversion.