Minichromosome Publications

  • Birchler JA. 2011. Artificial Chromosomes in Plants. In: Encyclopedia of Biotechnology in Agriculture and Food. DR Heldman, MB Wheeler, and DG Hoover (Eds.), CRC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Birchler JA and Bass HW. 2009. Cytogenetics and chromosome structural diversity. The Maize Handbook, Sarah Hake and Jeffrey Bennetzen (Eds.), pp. 163-177.
  • Birchler JA and Han F. 2009. Maize centromeres: Structure, function, epigenetics. Annu Rev Genet 43: 287-303.
  • Birchler JA, Yu W and Han F. 2008. Plant engineered minichromosomes and artificial chromosome platforms. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 120: 228-232.
  • Birchler JA, Gao Z, and Han F. 2009. A tale of two centromeres — diversity of structure but conservation of function in plants and animals. Functional and Integrative Genomics 9: 7-13.
  • Birchler JA, Gao Z, Sharma A, Presting GG and Han F. 2011. Epigenetic aspects of centromere function in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 14: 217-222.
  • Birchler JA, Krishnaswamy L, Gaeta RT, Masonbrink RE and Zhao C. 2010. Engineered minichromosomes in plants. Crit Rev Plant Sci 29:135-147.
  • Birchler JA and Presting GG. 2012. Retrotransposon insertion targeting: a mechanism for homogenization of centromere sequences on nonhomologous chromosomes. Genes and Development 26: 638-640.
  • Gaeta RT and Krishnaswamy L. 2010. Engineered Plant Minichromosomes. In: Plant Chromosome Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, New York.
  • Gaeta RT, Danilova TV, Zhao C, Masonbrink RE, McCaw ME and Birchler JA. 2011. Recovery of a telomere-truncated chromosome via a compensating translocation in maize. Genome 54: 184-195.
  • Gaeta RT, Masonbrink RE, Krishnaswamy L, Zhao C and Birchler JA. 2012. Synthetic chromosome platforms in plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 63: 307-330.
  • Gaeta RT, Masonbrink RE, Zhao C, Sanyal A, Krishnaswamy L and Birchler JA. 2013. In vivo modification of a maize engineered minichromosome. Chromosoma 122: 221-232.
  • Lamb JC, Yu W, Han F and Birchler JA. 2008. Plant Centromeres. In: Genome Dynamics, Plant Genomes. Karger, Basel, J.-N. Wolf (Ed.), pp. 95-107.
  • Masonbrink RE and Birchler JA. 2010. Sporophytic nondisjunction of the maize B chromosome at high copy numbers. J Genet Genomics 37: 79-84.
  • Masonbrink RE and Birchler JA. 2012. Multiple maize minichromosomes in meiosis. Chromosome Research 20: 395-402.
  • Masonbrink RE and Birchler JA. 2012. Accumulation of multiple copies of maize minichromosomes. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 137: 50-59.
  • Masonbink RE, Fu S, Han F and Birchler JA. 2013. Heritable loss of replication control of a minichromosome derived from the B chromosome of maize. Genetics 193: 77-84.