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A Kinesin-14 Motor Activates Neocentromeres to Promote Meiotic Drive in Maize.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

A fluorescence in situ hybridization system for karyotyping soybean

scientific article (publication date: July 2010)

A hemicentric inversion in the maize line knobless Tama flint created two sites of centromeric elements and moved the kinetochore-forming region

scientific article published on 26 January 2007

A molecular view of plant centromeres

scientific article published on December 2003

A tale of two centromeres--diversity of structure but conservation of function in plants and animals

scientific article published on 13 December 2008

A test for ectopic exchange catalyzed by Cre recombinase in maize

scientific article published on 24 May 2005

A transgenic system for generation of transposon Ac/Ds-induced chromosome rearrangements in rice

scientific article published on July 14, 2012

A universal chromosome identification system for maize and wild Zea species

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Advances in plant chromosome identification and cytogenetic techniques.

scientific article

Aging: Somatic Mutations, Epigenetic Drift and Gene Dosage Imbalance

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of maize (Zea mays) with Cre-lox site specific recombination cassettes in BIBAC vectors.

scientific article published on 12 February 2008

Alternative Ac/Ds transposition induces major chromosomal rearrangements in maize

scientific article published on March 2009

Aluminum tolerance in maize is associated with higher MATE1 gene copy number

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

An overview of rice genetics research in China

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Aneuploidy in plants and flies: The origin of studies of genomic imbalance

scientific article published on February 17, 2013

B Chromosomes

Barbara McClintock's Unsolved Chromosomal Mysteries: Parallels to Common Rearrangements and Karyotype Evolution

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Biological consequences of dosage dependent gene regulatory systems

scientific article (publication date: May 2007)

Cellular reactions to gene dosage imbalance: genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic effects

scientific article published on 26 June 2008

Centromere Epigenetics in Plants

scientific article published on March 26, 2013

Centromere function and nondisjunction are independent components of the maize B chromosome accumulation mechanism

scientific article published on 23 February 2007

Centromeres: From chromosome biology to biotechnology applications and synthetic genomes in plants

scientific article published in 2022

Centromeric retroelements and satellites interact with maize kinetochore protein CENH3.

scientific article published in November 2002

Characterization of a maize isochromosome 8S*8S.

scientific article published in June 2006

Chromosome Painting for Plant Biotechnology

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Chromosome painting using repetitive DNA sequences as probes for somatic chromosome identification in maize

scientific article

Claims and counterclaims of X-chromosome compensation

scientific article published on 05 January 2012

Cohesion and centromere activity are required for phosphorylation of histone H3 in maize

scientific article published on 15 October 2017

Commonalities in compensation

scientific article

Comparative analysis of inbred and hybrid maize at the diploid and tetraploid levels

scientific article published on 15 December 2007

Construction and behavior of engineered minichromosomes in maize

scientific article

Curt Stern on Somatic Crossing Over

scientific article published on June 2016

Cytogenetic and Sequence Analyses of Mitochondrial DNA Insertions in Nuclear Chromosomes of Maize.

scientific article

Cytological and molecular analysis of centromere misdivision in maize

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Cytological visualization of DNA transposons and their transposition pattern in somatic cells of maize

scientific article published on 22 October 2006

De novo centromere formation on a chromosome fragment in maize

scientific article published on 25 March 2013

Dicentric chromosome formation and epigenetics of centromere formation in plants

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Discovering the seeds of diversity in plant genomes

scientific article

Distinct DNA methylation patterns associated with active and inactive centromeres of the maize B chromosome

scientific article

Distinct chromosomal distributions of highly repetitive sequences in maize

scientific article published in January 2007

Does ectopic cell death cause somatic mutations in the neighboring cells by activating transposons?

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Dominance and gene dosage balance in health and disease: why levels matter!

scientific article published on January 2010

Dosage balance in gene regulation: biological implications

scientific article (publication date: April 2005)

Dosage compensation and inverse effects in triple X metafemales of Drosophila

scientific article published on April 15, 2013

Dosage dependent gene regulation and the compensation of the X chromosome in Drosophila males

scientific article (publication date: March 2003)

Dosage, duplication, and diploidization: clarifying the interplay of multiple models for duplicate gene evolution over time

scientific article

Drosophila KDM2 is a H3K4me3 demethylase regulating nucleolar organization

scientific article

Dynamic chromatin changes associated with de novo centromere formation in maize euchromatin.

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Dynamic epigenetic states of maize centromeres

scientific article

Dynamic location changes of Bub1-phosphorylated-H2AThr133 with CENH3 nucleosome in maize centromeric regions

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Editing the Phenotype: A Revolution for Quantitative Genetics

scientific article published in October 2017

Effects of reunited diverged regulatory hierarchies in allopolyploids and species hybrids

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Efficient Targeted Genome Modification in Maize Using CRISPR/Cas9 System

scientific article published on 30 October 2015

Engineered Minichromosomes in Plants: Structure, Function, and Applications.

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Engineered minichromosomes in plants

scientific article

Engineered minichromosomes in plants

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

Engineered minichromosomes in plants

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Engineered minichromosomes in plants.

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Epigenetic aspects of centromere function in plants.

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Facts and artifacts in studies of gene expression in aneuploids and sex chromosomes

scientific article

Fast-Flowering Mini-Maize: Seed to Seed in 60 Days.

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization for Glycine max Metaphase Chromosomes

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization to Maize (Zea mays) Chromosomes

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization–Based Karyotyping of Soybean Translocation Lines

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

From Gigabyte to Kilobyte: A Bioinformatics Protocol for Mining Large RNA-Seq Transcriptomics Data

scientific article

Gene balance hypothesis: Connecting issues of dosage sensitivity across biological disciplines

scientific article published on August 20, 2012

Gene dosage effects: nonlinearities, genetic interactions, and dosage compensation

scientific article published on May 17, 2013

Gene expression analysis at the intersection of ploidy and hybridity in maize

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Gene expression analysis of the function of the male-specific lethal complex in Drosophila

scientific article

Generation of a Maize B Centromere Minimal Map Containing the Central Core Domain

scientific article

Genetic variation for the response to ploidy change in Zea mays L

scientific article published on 20 October 2006

Genetics and biochemistry of RNAi in Drosophila.

scientific article published on January 2008

Genomic Balance Plays Out in Evolution

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Genomic Balance and Speciation

scientific article published on 31 March 2019

Genomic dosage effects on heterosis in triploid maize

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Global analysis of siRNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing

scientific article

Global impacts of chromosomal imbalance on gene expression in and other taxa

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Heritable Loss of Replication Control of a Minichromosome Derived from the B Chromosome of Maize

scientific article published on October 31, 2012

Heterochromatic silencing and HP1 localization in Drosophila are dependent on the RNAi machinery

scientific article

Heterochromatin: RNA points the way.

scientific article published in September 2004

Heterosis

scientific article published on 9 July 2010

Heterosis: The genetic basis of hybrid vigour

scientific article

High Quality Maize Centromere 10 Sequence Reveals Evidence of Frequent Recombination Events

scientific article published on 23 March 2016

High frequency of centromere inactivation resulting in stable dicentric chromosomes of maize

scholarly article

High-efficiency genome editing using a dmc1 promoter-controlled CRISPR/Cas9 system in maize.

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Histone modifications associated with both A and B chromosomes of maize.

scientific article

Hybrid Decay: A Transgenerational Epigenetic Decline in Vigor and Viability Triggered in Backcross Populations of Teosinte with Maize

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Identification ofInverse Regulator-a(Inr-a) as Synonymous with Pre-mRNA Cleavage Complex II Protein (Pcf11) in Drosophila

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

In Search of the Molecular Basis of Heterosis

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

In vivo modification of a maize engineered minichromosome

scientific article published on March 22, 2013

Inactivation of a centromere during the formation of a translocation in maize

scientific article published in August 2011

Induction of tetraploid derivatives of maize inbred lines by nitrous oxide gas treatment

scientific article published on 4 January 2006

Insights from paleogenomic and population studies into the consequences of dosage sensitive gene expression in plants

scientific article published on 30 August 2012

Integrated cytogenetic map of mitotic metaphase chromosome 9 of maize: resolution, sensitivity, and banding paint development

scientific article published on 4 March 2008

Interaction of RNA polymerase II and the small RNA machinery affects heterochromatic silencing in Drosophila

scientific article

Interploidy hybridization barrier of endosperm as a dosage interaction

scientific article

Intragenomic Conflict Between the Two Major Knob Repeats of Maize

scientific article published on March 2, 2013

Kinetics genetics: Incorporating the concept of genomic balance into an understanding of quantitative traits.

scientific article published on 6 February 2016

Labeling Meiotic Chromosomes in Maize with Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Localization and transcription of a retrotransposon-derived element on the maize B chromosome.

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Location of low copy genes in chromosomes of Brachiaria spp.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Magnitude of modulation of gene expression in aneuploid maize depends on the extent of genomic imbalance

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Maize centromere structure and evolution: sequence analysis of centromeres 2 and 5 reveals dynamic Loci shaped primarily by retrotransposons

scientific article

Maize centromeres: structure, function, epigenetics

scientific article published on January 2009

Male-specific lethal complex in Drosophila counteracts histone acetylation and does not mediate dosage compensation

scientific article published on February 4, 2013

Marcus Rhoades on Preferential Segregation in Maize

scientific article published on August 2016

Marcus rhoades, preferential segregation and meiotic drive

scientific article

Meiotic Studies on Combinations of Chromosomes With Different Sized Centromeres in Maize.

scientific article

Meiotic behavior of small chromosomes in maize

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Meiotic crossovers characterized by haplotype-specific chromosome painting in maize

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Mendel, mechanism, models, marketing, and more

scientific article published in September 2015

Messing with Mendel

scientific article published on October 16, 2012

Metaphase Chromosome Preparation from Soybean (Glycine max) Root Tips

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Minichromosome analysis of chromosome pairing, disjunction, and sister chromatid cohesion in maize

scientific article published on 14 December 2007

Misregulation of sex-lethal and disruption of male-specific lethal complex localization in Drosophila species hybrids

scientific article

Mitochondrial DNA transfer to the nucleus generates extensive insertion site variation in maize

scientific article

Models of buffering of dosage imbalances in protein complexes

scientific article

Molecular and functional dissection of the maize B chromosome centromere

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Molecular biology. Slicing and dicing for small RNAs

scientific article published on 8 May 2008

Molecular mechanisms of homologous chromosome pairing and segregation in plants

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Multiple maize minichromosomes in meiosis

scientific article published on 03 May 2012

Nonadditive gene expression in diploid and triploid hybrids of maize

scientific article

Organization of endoreduplicated chromosomes in the endosperm of Zea mays L.

scientific article

Pairing in plants: Import is important

scientific article

Parallel Universes for Models of X Chromosome Dosage Compensation in Drosophila: A Review

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Phenotypic and gene expression analyses of a ploidy series of maize inbred Oh43

scientific article published on December 25, 2010

Plant artificial chromosome technology and its potential application in genetic engineering

scientific article

Plant chromosomes from end to end: telomeres, heterochromatin and centromeres

scientific article published on 8 February 2007

Plant minichromosomes.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant science decadal vision 2020-2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Plant science: Hybrid vigour characterized

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2016)

Polycomb, pairing and PIWI--RNA silencing and nuclear interactions

scientific article published on 27 July 2006

Polyploids as a "model system" for the study of heterosis

scientific article (publication date: March 2014)

Preface

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Preparation of Chromosomes from Zea mays

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Production of Engineered Minichromosome Vectors via the Introduction of Telomere Sequences

scientific article published in January 2016

Profile of James A. Birchler. Interview by Farooq Ahmed

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

Progressive heterosis in genetically defined tetraploid maize

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Promises and pitfalls of synthetic chromosomes in plants

scientific article

Protein?Protein and Protein?DNA Dosage Balance and Differential Paralog Transcription Factor Retention in Polyploids

scientific article published on October 11, 2011

Quantitatively Increased Somatic Transposition of Transposable Elements in Drosophila Strains Compromised for RNAi

scientific article published on August 5, 2013

RNA silencing in Drosophila

scientific article

RNAi related mechanisms affect both transcriptional and posttranscriptional transgene silencing in Drosophila

scientific article published in February 2002

RNAi-mediated pathways in the nucleus

scientific article

Re-evaluation of the function of the male specific lethal complex in Drosophila

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

Reactivation of an inactive centromere reveals epigenetic and structural components for centromere specification in maize

scientific article published on 14 July 2009

Recent advances in plant centromere biology

scientific article

Recovery of a telomere-truncated chromosome via a compensating translocation in maize

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Recurrent establishment of de novo centromeres in the pericentromeric region of maize chromosome 3.

scientific article

Reflections on studies of gene expression in aneuploids

scientific article published on 09 February 2010

Reflections on the inhibition of RNAi by cell death signaling

scientific article published on July 28, 2011

Retroelement genome painting: cytological visualization of retroelement expansions in the genera Zea and Tripsacum

scientific article

Retrotransposon insertion targeting: a mechanism for homogenization of centromere sequences on nonhomologous chromosomes

scientific article published in April 2012

Sequences associated with A chromosome centromeres are present throughout the maize B chromosome

scientific article published on 07 December 2004

Sequential de novo centromere formation and inactivation on a chromosomal fragment in maize

scientific article

Single-gene detection and karyotyping using small-target fluorescence in situ hybridization on maize somatic chromosomes

scientific article published on 21 January 2007

Site-specific recombinase genome engineering toolkit in maize

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Sporophytic nondisjunction of the maize B chromosome at high copy numbers

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Synthetic Chromosome Platforms in Plants

scientific article published on November 28, 2011

Telomere-Mediated Chromosomal Truncation for Generating Engineered Minichromosomes in Maize

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Telomere-mediated chromosomal truncation in maize

scientific article

The Behavior of the Maize B Chromosome and Centromere

scientific article

The Gene Balance Hypothesis: Epigenetics and Dosage Effects in Plants

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The Gene Balance Hypothesis: dosage effects in plants

scientific article published on January 2014

The Plant CellIntroduces Breakthrough Reports: A New Forum for Cutting-Edge Plant Research

article

The deposition of CENH3 in maize is stringently regulated

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

The dominant inhibitory chalcone synthase allele C2-Idf (inhibitor diffuse) from Zea mays (L.) acts via an endogenous RNA silencing mechanism

scientific article

The gene balance hypothesis: from classical genetics to modern genomics

scientific article published on 9 February 2007

The gene balance hypothesis: implications for gene regulation, quantitative traits and evolution

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

The role of DNA sequence in centromere formation

scientific article published on April 29, 2003

Ubiquitous RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and gene silencing

scientific article

Understanding mechanisms of novel gene expression in polyploids

scientific article

Unraveling the genetic basis of hybrid vigor

scientific article

Variation for maize B chromosome preferential fertilization: a component of the B chromosome drive mechanism

scientific article published in 2023

What's in a centromere?

scientific article

Whole-chromosome paints in maize reveal rearrangements, nuclear domains, and chromosomal relationships

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America