Publications

1. Page BT, Wanous MK, Birchler JA.  2001. Characterization of a maize chromosome 4 centromeric sequence: evidence for an evolutionary relationship with the B chromosome centromere. Genetics. 159:291-302

2. Kaszas E, Kato A, Birchler, JA. 2002. Cytological and molecular analysis of centromere misdivision in maize. Genome. 45:759-68.

3. Zhong C.X., Marshall J.B., Topp, C. Mroczek R.J. , Kato, C.R.A, Nagaki, K., Birchler, J.A., Jiang, J., and Dawe, R.K. 2002. Centromeric retroelements and satellites interact with maize kinetochore protein CENH3. Plant Cell 14, 2825-2836

4. Dawe, R.K. 2003. RNA interference, transposons, and the centromere. Plant Cell 15, 297-301

5. Mroczek, R. J., and Dawe, R.K. 2003. Distribution of retroelements in centromeres and neocentromeres of maize. Genetics 165, 809-819

6. Nagaki, K., Song, J., Stupar, R., Parokonny, A.S., Yuan Q., Ouyang S., Liu J., Dawe, R.K., Buell C.R., and Jiang, J. 2003. Molecular and cytological analyses of large tracks of centromeric DNA reveal the structure and evolutionary dynamics of maize centromeres. Genetics 163, 759-770

7. Nagaki, K., Talbert, P.B., Zhong, C.X. , Dawe R.K., Henikoff. S., and Jiang. J. 2003. Chromatin immunoprecipitation reveals that the 180-bp satellite repeat is the key functional DNA element of Arabidopsis thaliana  centromeres. Genetics 163, 1221-1225

8. Lamb JC, Birchler, JA. 2003. The role of DNA sequence in centromere formation. Genome Biol.4:214

9. Jiang, J., Birchler, J.A., Parrott, W.A. and Dawe, R.K. 2003. A molecular view of plant centromeres. Trends Plant Sci. 8, 570-575

10. Jin. W., Melo, J.R., Nagaki, K., Talbert, P.B., Henikoff, S., Dawe, R.K., and Jiang, J. 2004. Maize centromeres: fine structure and functional adaptation in the genetic background of oat. Plant Cell 16, 571-581

11. Lamb JC, Theuri J, Birchler JA. 2004. What's in a centromere? Genome Biol. , 5:239

12. Phelps-Durr T, Birchler JA. 2004. An asymptotic determination of minimum centromere size for the maize B chromosome. Cytogenet Genome Res. 106: 309-13

13. Topp, C.N., Zhong C.X., and Dawe, R.K. 2004. Centromere-encoded RNAs are integral components of the maize kinetochore. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 15986-15991

14. Lamb J.C., Kato A., Birchler J.A.  2004. Sequences associated with A chromosome centromeres are present throughout the maize B chromosome. Chromosoma. 113:337-349

15. Zhang, X., Li, X., Marshall, J.B., Zhong, C.X., and Dawe, R.K. 2005. Phosphoserines on maize CENTROMERIC HISTONE H3 and histone H3 define the centromere and pericentromere during chromosome segregation. Plant Cell 17, 572-583

16. Theuri, J. Phelps-Durr, T., Mathews, S., and Birchler, J.A. 2005. A comparative study of retrotransposons in the centromeric regions of A and B chromosomes of maize. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, in press.

17. Birchler, J.A., Auger, D.L., and Kato, A. 2004. Cytogenetics of corn. IN: Corn: Origin, History, Technology and Production. Edited by C. Wayne Smith, Javier Betran and Ed Runge. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

18. Kato, A., Lamb, J.C., and Birchler, J.A. 2004. Chromosome painting in maize using repetitive DNA sequences as probes for somatic chromosome identification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 13554-13559.

19. Weiwei Jin, Jonathan C. Lamb, Juan M. Vega, R. Kelly Dawe, James A. Birchler and Jiming Jiang, 2005. Molecular and functional dissection of the maize B chromosome centromere. The Plant Cell 17: 1412-1423.

20. Kato, A., Vega, J.A., Han, F., Lamb, J.C., and Birchler, J.A. 2005. Advances in Plant Chromosome Identification and Cytogenetic Techniques. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 8: 148-154.

21. Akio Kato, Jonathan C. Lamb, Fangpu Han, Juan M. Vega and James A. Birchler, 2005. Molecular Cytogenetics of Maize. Maydica, in press.
 
 

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