R Kelly Dawe

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1 The B73 maize genome: complexity, diversity, and dynamics. Science 2009 18.73
2 A standardized kinesin nomenclature. J Cell Biol 2004 4.43
3 Centromeric retroelements and satellites interact with maize kinetochore protein CENH3. Plant Cell 2002 2.55
4 A molecular view of plant centromeres. Trends Plant Sci 2003 2.26
5 Chromatin immunoprecipitation reveals that the 180-bp satellite repeat is the key functional DNA element of Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres. Genetics 2003 2.05
6 Maize centromeres: organization and functional adaptation in the genetic background of oat. Plant Cell 2004 2.01
7 Centromere-encoded RNAs are integral components of the maize kinetochore. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 1.95
8 Molecular and cytological analyses of large tracks of centromeric DNA reveal the structure and evolutionary dynamics of maize centromeres. Genetics 2003 1.92
9 Maize centromere structure and evolution: sequence analysis of centromeres 2 and 5 reveals dynamic Loci shaped primarily by retrotransposons. PLoS Genet 2009 1.71
10 Partitioning of the maize epigenome by the number of methyl groups on histone H3 lysines 9 and 27. Genetics 2006 1.47
11 Molecular and functional dissection of the maize B chromosome centromere. Plant Cell 2005 1.43
12 DNA binding of centromere protein C (CENPC) is stabilized by single-stranded RNA. PLoS Genet 2010 1.38
13 CHH islands: de novo DNA methylation in near-gene chromatin regulation in maize. Genome Res 2012 1.36
14 Widespread gene conversion in centromere cores. PLoS Biol 2010 1.29
15 Spreading of heterochromatin is limited to specific families of maize retrotransposons. PLoS Genet 2012 1.25
16 Maximum likelihood methods reveal conservation of function among closely related kinesin families. J Mol Evol 2002 1.24
17 Fused sister kinetochores initiate the reductional division in meiosis I. Nat Cell Biol 2009 1.23
18 Independently regulated neocentromere activity of two classes of tandem repeat arrays. Plant Cell 2002 1.13
19 Distribution of retroelements in centromeres and neocentromeres of maize. Genetics 2003 1.07
20 Megabase-scale inversion polymorphism in the wild ancestor of maize. Genetics 2012 1.05
21 Phosphoserines on maize CENTROMERIC HISTONE H3 and histone H3 demarcate the centromere and pericentromere during chromosome segregation. Plant Cell 2005 1.03
22 Strong epigenetic similarity between maize centromeric and pericentromeric regions at the level of small RNAs, DNA methylation and H3 chromatin modifications. Nucleic Acids Res 2011 1.02
23 Precise centromere mapping using a combination of repeat junction markers and chromatin immunoprecipitation-polymerase chain reaction. Genetics 2006 1.01
24 RNA as a structural and regulatory component of the centromere. Annu Rev Genet 2012 1.00
25 Maize centromeres expand and adopt a uniform size in the genetic background of oat. Genome Res 2013 0.97
26 Four loci on abnormal chromosome 10 contribute to meiotic drive in maize. Genetics 2003 0.95
27 Marcus rhoades, preferential segregation and meiotic drive. Genetics 2003 0.95
28 Reinterpreting pericentromeric heterochromatin. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2006 0.93
29 The meiotic drive system on maize abnormal chromosome 10 contains few essential genes. Genetica 2003 0.93
30 Distinct influences of tandem repeats and retrotransposons on CENH3 nucleosome positioning. Epigenetics Chromatin 2011 0.91
31 Intragenomic conflict between the two major knob repeats of maize. Genetics 2013 0.90
32 Transformation of rice with long DNA-segments consisting of random genomic DNA or centromere-specific DNA. Transgenic Res 2006 0.90
33 The maize Ab10 meiotic drive system maps to supernumerary sequences in a large complex haplotype. Genetics 2006 0.89
34 Mechanisms of plant spindle formation. Chromosome Res 2011 0.89
35 Total centromere size and genome size are strongly correlated in ten grass species. Chromosome Res 2012 0.87
36 Diversity and evolution of centromere repeats in the maize genome. Chromosoma 2014 0.86
37 Maize NDC80 is a constitutive feature of the central kinetochore. Chromosome Res 2007 0.84
38 Maize chromosomal knobs are located in gene-dense areas and suppress local recombination. Chromosoma 2012 0.83
39 Engineered plant minichromosomes: a bottom-up success? Plant Cell 2008 0.81
40 Centromeres: long intergenic spaces with adaptive features. Funct Integr Genomics 2009 0.80
41 Live imaging of chromosome dynamics. Methods Mol Biol 2013 0.79
42 An Arabidopsis tissue-specific RNAi method for studying genes essential to mitosis. PLoS One 2012 0.78
43 Stable integration of an engineered megabase repeat array into the maize genome. Plant J 2012 0.77
44 RNA interference on chromosomes. Nat Genet 2004 0.76
45 LumberJack: a heuristic tool for sequence alignment exploration and phylogenetic inference. Bioinformatics 2004 0.75