Andrea Koblížková

TL;DR: The presence of two distinct types of centromeres, coupled with the boom-and-bust cycles of centromeric satellite repeats in Solanum species, suggests that repeat-based centromere evolution can rapidly evolve from neocentromeres by de novo amplification and insertion of satellite repeat repeats in the CENH3 domains.

TL;DR: A novel computational pipeline that circumvents the problem of difficult to assemble satellite DNA characterization by detecting satellite repeats directly from unassembled short reads by employing graph-based sequence clustering to identify groups of reads that represent repetitive elements.

TL;DR: Comprehensive analysis of the CRM clade elements showed that genuinely centromeric retrotransposons represent an active component of centromeres of a wide range of angiosperm species, implying that they play an important role in plant centromere evolution.

TL;DR: Large-scale comparative analysis of repeats in 23 species from four genera of the monophyletic legume tribe Fabeae, representing a 7.6-fold variation in genome size, provided a proof of concept for the approach combining recent developments in sequencing and bioinformatics to perform comparative analyses of repetitive DNAs in a large number of non-model species without the need to assemble their genomes.

TL;DR: It is shown that pea (Pisum sativum) chromosomes exhibit remarkably long primary constrictions that contain 3–5 explicit CenH3-containing regions, a novelty in centromere organization.