The population biology of transposable elements

THE NUMBER OF ALLELES THAT CAN BE MAINTAINED IN A FINITE POPULATION

1964 • 2,659 citations

Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite

1980 • 2,095 citations

Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution

1980 • 1,779 citations

Analysis of P transposable element functions in drosophila

1984 • 733 citations

Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster

1983 • 707 citations

Alu sequences are processed 7SL RNA genes

1984 • 592 citations

Repetitive Sequences in Eukaryotic DNA and their Expression

1982 • 575 citations

SELFISH DNA: A SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED NUCLEAR PARASITE

1982 • 490 citations

The molecular basis of P-M hybrid dysgenesis: The nature of induced mutations

1982 • 484 citations

DNA sequence variants in the Gγ-, Aγ-, δ- and β-globin genes of man

1979 • 464 citations

The population dynamics of transposable elements

1983 • 438 citations

Short interspersed repetitive DNA elements in eucaryotes: Transposable DNA elements generated by reverse transcription of RNA pol III transcripts?

1981 • 339 citations

THE P FAMILY OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN DROSOPHILA

1983 • 310 citations

Drosophila melanogaster mutations suppressible by the suppressor of Hairy-wing are insertions of a 7.3-kilobase mobile element.

1983 • 302 citations

The molecular basis of I-R hybrid Dysgenesis in drosophila melanogaster: Identification, cloning, and properties of the I factor

1984 • 274 citations

DROSOPHILA GENOME ORGANIZATION: CONSERVED AND DYNAMIC ASPECTS

1981 • 245 citations

Origin of the beta S-globin gene in blacks: the contribution of recurrent mutation or gene conversion or both.

1984 • 221 citations

Retrovirus-like particles containing RNA homologous to the transposable element copia in Drosophila melanogaster

1983 • 215 citations

Identification of the coding sequence for a reverse transcriptase-like enzyme in a transposable genetic element in Drosophila melanogaster

1984 • 213 citations

Middle repetitive DNA: a fluid component of the Drosophila genome.

1979 • 179 citations

Conservation and change in the DNA sequences coding for alcohol dehydrogenase in sibling species of Drosophila

1984 • 169 citations

Dispersed Repetitive DNAs in Drosophila

1983 • 135 citations

TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS. I. A THEORY

1983 • 132 citations

Transposition bursts in genetically unstable Drosophila melanogaster

1984 • 128 citations

Hybrid dysgenesis inDrosophila melanogaster: the relationship between theP–MandI–Rinteraction systems

1979 • 123 citations

Apparent absence of transposable elements related to the P elements of D. melanogaster in other species of Drosophila

1984 • 117 citations

Restriction map variation in the Adh region of Drosophila.

1982 • 111 citations

TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS. II. DISTRIBUTION OF THREE COPIA-LIKE ELEMENTS IN A NATURAL POPULATION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1983 • 108 citations

Molecular evolution of the human adult alpha-globin-like gene region: insertion and deletion of Alu family repeats and non-Alu DNA sequences.

1983 • 100 citations

ON THE THEORY OF SPECIATION INDUCED BY TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS

1984 • 78 citations

Evolution ofDrosophila repetitive-dispersed DNA

1983 • 71 citations

A Gradient of Sequence Divergence in the Human Adult α-Globin Duplication Units

1984 • 66 citations

Role of reverse transcription in the generation of extrachromosomal copia mobile genetic elements

1984 • 65 citations

Closely related species of Drosophila can contain different libraries of middle repetitive DNA sequences

1983 • 54 citations

Selfish DNAs with self-restraint

1984 • 54 citations

Transcriptionin vivoof an Alu family member upstream from the human ε-globin gene

1984 • 50 citations

TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS. III. STATISTICAL RESULTS

1983 • 49 citations

Population Genetics of Transposable Elements

1984 • 49 citations

Jumping genes meet abdominal bristles: hybrid dysgenesis-induced quantitative variation inDrosophila melanogaster

1984 • 47 citations

A MODEL OF DUPLICATIVE TRANSPOSITION AND GENE CONVERSION FOR REPETITIVE DNA FAMILIES

1985 • 46 citations

A MODEL FOR DNA SEQUENCE EVOLUTION WITHIN TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT FAMILIES

1986 • 44 citations

Moderately Repetitive DNA in Evolution

1982 • 40 citations

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS UNDER MUTATION AND UNBIASED GENE CONVERSION

1985 • 35 citations

Theoretical study on the accumulation of selfish DNA

1983 • 34 citations

Interspersed repetitive DNA sequences are unlikely to be parasitic

1982 • 32 citations

Some calculations on the amount of selfish DNA.

1981 • 30 citations

Population genetics of selfish DNA

1981 • 25 citations

Chromosomal mapping of a middle-repetitive DNA sequence in a cluster of five species of Hawaiian Drosophila.

1984 • 24 citations

A COMPARISON OF MUTATION RATES FOR SPECIFIC LOCI AND CHROMOSOME REGIONS IN DYSGENIC HYBRID MALES OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1984 • 23 citations

Genes Are Things You Have Whether You Want Them or Not

1981 • 20 citations

Mobilization of the transposable element mdg4 by hybrid dysgenesis generates a family of unstable cut mutations in Drosophila melanogaster

1984 • 13 citations

Molecular biology: Transposable elements and suppressor genes

1984 • 10 citations

Molecular evolution: On the origin of the Alu family of repeated sequences

1984 • 10 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations