Sunita Kumari

TL;DR: The sequence of the maize genome reveals it to be the most complex genome known to date and the correlation of methylation-poor regions with Mu transposon insertions and recombination and how uneven gene losses between duplicated regions were involved in returning an ancient allotetraploid to a genetically diploid state is reported.

TL;DR: The assembly and annotation of a reference genome of maize is reported, using single-molecule real-time sequencing and high-resolution optical mapping to identify transposable element lineage expansions that are unique to maize.

TL;DR: Author(s): Arkin, Adam P; Cottingham, Robert W; Henry, Christopher S; Harris, Nomi L; Stevens, Rick L; Maslov, Sergei; Dehal, Paramvir; Ware, Doreen; Perez, Fernando; Canon, Shane; Sneddon, Michael W; Henderson, Matthew L; Riehl, William J; Murphy-Olson, Dan; Chan, Stephen Y; Kamimura, Roy T.

TL;DR: A genome-wide survey of maize miRNA genes was conducted, characterizing their structure, expression, and evolution, and it was found that, like protein-coding genes, duplicated miRNAs underwent extensive gene-loss, with ∼35% of ancestral sites retained as duplicate homoeologous mi RNA genes.

TL;DR: Over 70% of the CNV/PAV examples are identified in multiple genotypes, and the majority of events are observed in both maize and teosinte, suggesting that these variants predate domestication and that there is not strong selection acting against them.