Mia T Levine

The paper analyzes telomere-specialized transposons across Drosophila species, revealing rapid evolution, convergent loss, horizontal transfer, and gene capture mechanisms.

The paper shows that adaptive protein coevolution within a telomere protection complex preserves telomere integrity by mitigating interspecies incompatibility caused by rapid evolution.

The paper shows that telomere length inheritance in mice depends on a parent-of-origin effect during early embryonic telomere elongation, with molecular signatures of the ALT pathway involved.

The paper studies the evolution of protein interactions in the Drosophila piRNA pathway, revealing conserved and co-evolved interactions that support evolutionary adaptation.

This study identifies epigenetic factors underlying adaptive phenotypic plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster, showing genotype-dependent chromatin changes associated with diapause.