Jonathan N. Wells

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.

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.

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.