2019–Present (ZZ lab production at Duke):
2023 ⎜ Nature
Yang F#, Su W#, Chung L, Tracy L, Wang L, Ramsden D, Zhang Z. (#Co-first, briefing by Nature, Duke coverage)
Retrotransposons hijack alt-EJ for DNA replication and eccDNA biogenesis.
2022 ⎜ Nature Genetics
Wang L#*, Tracy L#, Su W, Yang F, Feng Y, Silverman N, Zhang Z*. (#Co-first, *Co-corresponding authors , highlighted by News and Views)
Gaining protection against future viral infection from a family of mobile genetic elements.
2020 ⎜ Journal of Genetics and Genomics
Dou K*, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Wang C, Huang Y*, Zhang Z*. (*Co-corresponding authors)
Drosophila P75 safeguards oogenesis by preventing H3K9me2 spreading.
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2014–2019 (ZZ lab production at Carnegie):
2018 ⎜ Developmental Cell
Moon S#, Cassani M#, Lin Y, Wang L, Dou K, Zhang Z. (#Co-first authors)
A robust transposon-endogenizing response from germline stem cells.
2018 ⎜ Cell
Wang L#, Dou K#, Moon S, Tan F, Zhang Z. (#Co-first authors)
Hijacking oogenesis enables massive propagation of LINE and retroviral transposons.
2018 ⎜ EMBO reports
Yu B#, Lin Y#, Parhad SP, Jin Z, Ma J, Theurkauf WE, Zhang Z*, Huang Y*. (#Co-first authors, *Co-corresponding authors)
Structural insights into Rhino-Deadlock complex for germline piRNA cluster specification.
2015 ⎜ Molecular Cell
Wang W, Han B, Tipping C, Ge DT, Zhang Z, Weng Z, Zamore PD.
Slicing and Binding by Ago3 or Aub Trigger Piwi-Bound piRNA Production by Distinct Mechanisms.
2015 ⎜ Cell Research
Yu B, Cassani M, Wang M, Liu M, Ma J, Li G, Zhang Z*, Huang Y*. (*Co-corresponding authors)
Structural insights into Rhino mediated germline piRNA cluster formation.
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2009-2014 (ZZ as a graduate student):
2014 ⎜ Cell
Zhang Z, Wang J, Schultz N, Zhang F, Parhad SP, Tu S, Vreven T, Zamore PD, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE.
Rhi anchors a nuclear complex that suppresses piRNA precursor splicing.
2014 ⎜ EMBO Journal
Zhang Z, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD.
Antisense piRNA amplification, but not piRNA production or nuage assembly, requires the Tudor-domain protein Qin.
2012 ⎜ Silence
Zhang Z, Theurkauf WE, Weng Z, Zamore PD.
Strand-specific libraries for high throughput sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) prepared without poly(A) selection.
2012 ⎜ Cell
Zhang F, Wang J, Xu J, Zhang Z, Koppetsch B, Schultz N, Vreven T, Meignin, C, Davis I, Zamore PD, Weng Z and Theurkauf WE.
UAP56 couples piRNA clusters to the perinuclear transposon silencing machinery.
2011 ⎜ Molecular Cell
Zhang Z, Xu J, Koppetsch, BS, Wang J, Tipping C, Ma S, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE, Zamore PD.
Heterotypic piRNA Ping-Pong requires Qin, a protein with both E3-ligase and Tudor domains.
2009 ⎜ Cell
Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z.
SnapShot: Mouse piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle.
2009 ⎜ Cell
Tushir JS, Zamore PD, Zhang Z.
SnapShot: Fly piRNAs, PIWI proteins, and the ping-pong cycle.