Megan Mariko Nakashima

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

Thomas Wolfgruber, Megan Mariko Nakashima, Kevin L. Schneider, Anupma Sharma et autres

The ancestral centromeres of maize contain long stretches of the tandemly arranged CentC repeat. The abundance of tandem DNA repeats and centromeric retrotransposons (CR) has presented a significant challenge to completely assembling centromeres using traditional sequencing methods. Here, we report a nearly …

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The evolution of centromeric satellite repeats in maize

Megan Mariko Nakashima

Corn is an important agricultural crop and an excellent model organism for genetic studies. A better understanding of corn centromeres will help in the design of artificial chromosomes that may be used to further improve the corn germplasm in the future. The …