Publications

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Horizontal gene transfer rivals gene duplication as a source of anti-parasitoid immune innovation in Drosophilidae

Tarnopol RL*, Wang RL, Kim BY, Whiteman NK* (2026) bioRxiv; doi:10.64898/2026.09.15.751804

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Experimental horizontal transfer of phage-derived genes to Drosophila confers innate immunity to parasitoids

Tarnopol RL*, Tamsil JA, Cinege G, Ha JH, Verster KI, Ábrahám E, Magyar LB, Kim BY, Bernstein SL, Lipinszki Z, Ando I*, Whiteman NK* (2025) Current Biology; doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.071

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Pore-forming toxin-like proteins in the anti-parasitoid immune response of Drosophila

Magyar LB, Ábrahám E, Lipinszki Z, Tarnopol RL, Whiteman NK, Varga V, Hultmark D, Ando I, Cinege G (2025) Journal of Innate Immunity; doi:10.1159/000542583

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Evolution of insect innate immunity through domestication of bacterial toxins

Verster KI, Cinege G, Lipinszki Z, Magyar LB, Kurucz É, Tarnopol RL, Ábrahám E, Darula Z, Karageorgi M, Tamsil JA, Akalu SM, Ando I, Whiteman NK (2023) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; doi:10.1073/pnas.2218334120

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Horizontal transfer of microbial toxin genes to gall midge genomes

Verster KI^, Tarnopol RL^, Akalu SM, Whiteman NK (2021) Genome Biology and Evolution; doi:10.1093/gbe/evab202

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