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Publications

1. Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2008) Division of Labor Among Meiotic Genes. Nature Genetics 40:266-267.

2. Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP (2008) Fluorescent Arabidopsis tetrads: A visual assay for quickly developing large crossover and crossover interference datasets. Nature Protocols 3(1): 41-50*.

* This work was featured on the cover .

3. Copenhaver GP and Hooykaas PJJ (2007) Plant DNA Repair and Recombination on the French Mediterranean. EMBO Reports 8:1115-9.

4. Carlson SR, Rudgers GW, Zieler H, Mach JM, Luo S, Grunden E, Krol C, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D (2007) Meiotic transmission of an in vitro-assembled autonomous maize mini-chromosome. PLoS Genetics 3(10): e179 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030179.

* This work was featured in a Scientific American.com News article (Minkel, JR, 10/23/2007) . It was also featured in an article in The News & Observer newspaper (Simmons, T, 10/19/2007) .

5. Berchowitz LE, Francis KE, Bey AL, Copenhaver GP (2007) The Role of AtMUS81 in Interference-Insensitive Crossovers in A. thaliana. PLoS Genetics 3: e132.

6. Sandaklie-Nikolova L, Palanivelu R, King E, Copenhaver GP, Drews GN (2007) Synergid Cell Death in Arabidopsis is Triggered Following Direct Interaction with the Pollen Tube. Plant Physiology 144: 1753-1762.

7. Francis KE, Lam SY, Harrison BD, Bey AL, Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2007) Pollen Tetrad-based Visual Assay for Meiotic Recombination in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.104: 3913-3918.*

* This work was featured in a commentary entitled “Meiosis in Living Color: Fluorescence-based tetrad analysis in Arabidopsis” (Hawley RS, 2007, PNAS 104: 3673-3674). It was also featured in a research highlight entitled “Full-color Crossovers” (Packer A, 2007, Nature Genetics 39: 449) and in a Nature Genetics “Touching Base” column entitled “Mutant of the month” (Packer A, 2007, Nature Genetics 39: 447) . It was ranked as a “must read” (6.5) by Faculty of 1000 .

8. Francis KE, Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP (2006) Separation of Arabidopsis Pollen Tetrads is Regulated by QRT1, a Pectin Methylesterase Gene. Plant Physiology 142: 1004-1013.

9. Copenhaver GP (2005) A Meiotic Tapas Menu. PLoS Genetics 2(2): 100-103.

10. Lam S, Horn SR, Radford SJ, Housworth EA, Stahl FW and Copenhaver GP (2005) Crossover interference on the NOR bearing chromosomes or Arabidopsis. Genetics 170: 807-812.

11. Copenhaver GP (2005) Plant Genetics: When Not to Interfere. Current Biology 15(8): R1-2

12. Copenhaver GP (2005) A Compendium of Plant Species Producing Pollen Tetrads. J. N. Carolina Acad. of Sci. 121(1): 17-35.

13. Copenhaver GP (2004) Who's driving the centromere? Journal of Biology 3:17

14. Stahl FW, Foss HM, Young LS, Borts RH, Abdullah MFF and Copenhaver GP (2004) Does Crossover Interference Count in Saccharomyces cerevisiae? Genetics 168: 35-48* .

*This work was featured in the “GENEtics” newsletter 1(2): 3

15. Hall A, Hall S, Keith K, Copenhaver GP, Preusss D (2004) The rapidly evolving field of plant centromere. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 7: 104-1-7

16. Copenhaver GP (2003) Using Arabidopsis to understand centromere function: Progress and prospects. Chromosome Research 11: 255-262.

17. Chang Y-L, Henriquez X, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D, and Zhang H-B (2003) A Plant Transformation-competent Binary BAC (BIBAC) library from the Landsberg ecotype of Arabidopsis thaliana.. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106: 269-276.

18. Krysan PJ,. Young JC,. Jester PJ, Monson S, Copenhaver G, Preuss D, and Sussman MR (2002). Characterization of T-DNA Insertion Sites in Arabidopsis thaliana and the Implications for Saturation Mutagenesis. Omics 6: 163-175.

19. Copenhaver GP, Housworth E, Stahl FS (2002) Crossover Interference in Arabidopsis. Genetics 160: 1631-1639.

20. The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative: Genome Sequencing Groups: Kaul S, Koo HL, Jenkins J, Rizzo M, Rooney T, Tallon LJ, Feldblyum T, Nierman W, Benito M-I, Lin X, Town CD, Venter JC, Fraser CM, Tabata S, Nakamura Y, Kaneko T, Sato S, Asamizu E, Kato T, Kotani H, Sasamoto S, Ecker JR, Theologis A, Federspiel NA, Palm CJ, Osborne BI, Shinn P, Conway AB, Vysotskaia VS, Dewar K, Conn L, Lenz CA, Kim CJ, Hansen NF, Liu SX, Buehler E, Altafi H, Sakano H, Dunn P, Lam B, Pham PK, Chao Q, Nguyen M, Yu G, Chen H, Southwick A, Lee JM, Miranda M, Toriumi MJ, Davis RW, Wambutt R, Murphy G, Düsterhöft A, Stiekema W, Pohl T, Entian K-D, Terryn N, Volckaert G, Salanoubat M, Choisne N, Rieger M, Ansorge W, Unseld M, Fartmann B, Valle G, Artiguenave F, Weissenbach J, Quetier F, Wilson R, de la Bastide M, Sekhon M, Huang E, Spiegel L, Gnoj L, Pepin K, Murray J, Johnson D, Habermann K, Dedhia N, Parnell L, Preston R, Hillier L, Chen E, Marra M, Martienssen R, McCombie WR, Genome Analysis Group: Mayer K, White O, Bevan M, Lemcke K, Creasey TH, Bielke C, Haas B, Haase D, Maiti R, Rudd S, Peterson J, Schoof H, Frishman D, Morgenstern B, Zaccaria P, Ermolaeva M, Pertea M, Quackenbush J, Volfovsky N, Wu D, Lowe T, Salzberg SL, Mewes H-W, Contributing Authors: Rounsley S, Bush D, Subramaniam S, Levin I, Norris S, Schmidt R, Acarkan A, Bancroft I, Quetier F, Brennicke A, Eisen JA, Bureau T, Legault B-A, Le Q-H, Agrawal N, Yu Z, Martienssen R, Copenhaver GP, Luo S, Pikaard CS, Preuss D, Paulsen IT, Sussman M, Britt A, Selinger DA, Pandey R, Mount DW, Chandler VL, Jorgensen RA, Juergens G, Meyerowitz EM, Ecker JR, Theologis A, Dangl J & Jones JDG, Chen M, Chory J, and Somerville C.(2000) Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 408: 796-815*.

*This work was featured on the cover and our contribution was also highlighted in “A Journey to the Center of the Chromosome” (C. Mlot (2000) Science 290:2057-2059).

21. Copenhaver GP, Keith KC, Preuss D (2000) Tetrad Analysis in Higher Plants: A Budding Technology. Plant Physiology 124:7-15*.

*An illustration from this paper was used as the cover of the issue

22. Copenhaver GP, Nickel K, Kuromori T., Benito M-I, Kaul S, Lin X, Bevan M, Murphy G, Harris B, Parnell LD, McCombie WR, Martienssen RA, Marra M, Preuss D (1999) Genetic Definition and Sequence Analysis of Arabidopsis Centromeres. Science 286: 2468-74.

23. Lin X, Kaul S, Rounsley S, Shea TP, Benito M-I, Town CD, Fujii CY, Mason T, Bowman CL, Barnstead M, Feldblyum T, Buell CR, Ketchum KA, Ronning CM, Koo H, Moffat K, Cronin L, Shen M, Pai G, Van Aken S, Umayam L, Tallon L, Gill J, Adams MD, Carrera AJ, Creasy TH, Goodman, HM, Somerville CR, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D., Nierman WC, White O, Eisen JA, Salzberg S, Fraser, CM, Venter JC (1999) Sequence and Analysis of Chromosome 2 of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 402: 761-68*.

*This work was featured in a cover caption .

24. Copenhaver GP, Preuss D. (1999) Centromeres in the genomic era: Unraveling paradoxes. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 2: 104-108.

25. Copenhaver GP, Browne WE, Preuss D (1998 ) Assaying genome-wide recombination and centromere functions with Arabidopsis tetrads. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 95:247-252.

26. Copenhaver GP, Pikaard CS (1996) Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomal DNA. Weeds World 3(i): 17-25

27. Copenhaver GP, Pikaard CS (1996) Two-dimensional RFLP analyses reveal megabase-sized clusters of rRNA gene variants in Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting local spreading of variants as the mode for gene homogenization during concerted evolution. The Plant Journal 9(2): 273-282.

28. Copenhaver GP, Pikaard CS (1996) RFLP and physical mapping with an rDNA-specific endonuclease reveals that nucleolus organizer regions of Arabidopsis thaliana adjoin the telomeres on chromosomes 2 and 4.The Plant Journal 9(2): 259-272.

29. Copenhaver GP, Doelling JH, Gens SJ, Pikaard CS (1995) Use of RFLPs larger than 100 kbp to map the position and internal organization of the nucleolus organizer region on chromosome 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 7(2): 273-286.

30. Putnam CD, Copenhaver GP, Denton M, Pikaard CS (1994 ) The RNA polymerase I transactivator upstream binding factor requires its dimerization domain and high-mobility-group (HMG) box 1 to bend, wrap and positively supercoil enhancer DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology 14(10): 6476-6488.

31. Copenhaver GP, Putnam CD, Denton M, Pikaard CS (1994) The RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF is a sequence-tolerant HMG-box protein that can recognize structured nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Research 22(13): 2651-2657.