Tandem Repeats

Selected publications

Heitkam T., Weber B., Walter I., Liedtke S., Ost C. and Schmidt T. (2020): Satellite DNA landscapes after allotetraploidisation of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) reveal unique A and B subgenomes. The Plant Journal, doi: 10.1111/tpj.14705   read article
Read the corresponding preprint (open access): bioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/774828

Schmidt T., Heitkam T.,  Liedtke S., Schubert V. and Menzel G. (2019): Adding color to a century-old enigma: Multi-color chromosome identification unravels the autotriploid nature of saffron (Crocus sativus) as a hybrid of wild Crocus cartwrightianus cytotypes. New Phytologist, 222(4): 1965-1980   read article

Zakrzewski F. and Schmidt, T. Epigenetic characterization of satellite DNA in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). In: Rajewsky N., Jurga S., Barciszewski J. (eds) Plant Epigenetics. RNA Technologies. SpringerBook  read article

Heitkam T., Petrasch S., Zakrzewski F., Kögler A., Wenke T., Wanke S. and Schmidt T. (2015): Next-generation sequencing reveals differentially amplified tandem repeats as a major genome component of Northern Europe's oldest Camellia japonica. Chromosome Research, 23(4): 791-806 read article

Schmidt M., Hense S., Minoche, A.E., Dohm, J.C., Himmelbauer, H., Schmidt T. and Zakrzewski F. (2014): Cytosine methylation of an ancient satellite family in the wild beet Beta procumbens. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 143: 157-167  read article

Zakrzewski, F., Schubert, V., Viehöver, P., Minoche, A.E., Dohm, J.C., Himmelbauer, H., Weisshaar, B. and Schmidt, T. (2014): The CHH motif in sugar beet satellite DNA: a modulator for cytosine methylation. The Plant Journal, 78: 937-950   read article