Authors
Patrick S Schnable, Doreen Ware, Robert S Fulton, Joshua C Stein, Fusheng Wei, Shiran Pasternak, Chengzhi Liang, Jianwei Zhang, Lucinda Fulton, Tina A Graves, Patrick Minx, Amy Denise Reily, Laura Courtney, Scott S Kruchowski, Chad Tomlinson, Cindy Strong, Kim Delehaunty, Catrina Fronick, Bill Courtney, Susan M Rock, Eddie Belter, Feiyu Du, Kyung Kim, Rachel M Abbott, Marc Cotton, Andy Levy, Pamela Marchetto, Kerri Ochoa, Stephanie M Jackson, Barbara Gillam, Weizu Chen, Le Yan, Jamey Higginbotham, Marco Cardenas, Jason Waligorski, Elizabeth Applebaum, Lindsey Phelps, Jason Falcone, Krishna Kanchi, Thynn Thane, Adam Scimone, Nay Thane, Jessica Henke, Tom Wang, Jessica Ruppert, Neha Shah, Kelsi Rotter, Jennifer Hodges, Elizabeth Ingenthron, Matt Cordes, Sara Kohlberg, Jennifer Sgro, Brandon Delgado, Kelly Mead, Asif Chinwalla, Shawn Leonard, Kevin Crouse, Kristi Collura, Dave Kudrna, Jennifer Currie, Ruifeng He, Angelina Angelova, Shanmugam Rajasekar, Teri Mueller, Rene Lomeli, Gabriel Scara, Ara Ko, Krista Delaney, Marina Wissotski, Georgina Lopez, David Campos, Michele Braidotti, Elizabeth Ashley, Wolfgang Golser, HyeRan Kim, Seunghee Lee, Jinke Lin, Zeljko Dujmic, Woojin Kim, Jayson Talag, Andrea Zuccolo, Chuanzhu Fan, Aswathy Sebastian, Melissa Kramer, Lori Spiegel, Lidia Nascimento, Theresa Zutavern, Beth Miller, Claude Ambroise, Stephanie Muller, Will Spooner, Apurva Narechania, Liya Ren, Sharon Wei, Sunita Kumari, Ben Faga, Michael J Levy, Linda McMahan, Peter Van Buren, Matthew W Vaughn, Kai Ying, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Scott J Emrich, Yi Jia, Ananth Kalyanaraman, An-Ping Hsia, W Brad Barbazuk, Regina S Baucom, Thomas P Brutnell, Nicholas C Carpita, Cristian Chaparro, Jer-Ming Chia, Jean-Marc Deragon, James C Estill, Yan Fu, Jeffrey A Jeddeloh, Yujun Han, Hyeran Lee, Pinghua Li, Damon R Lisch, Sanzhen Liu, Zhijie Liu, Dawn Holligan Nagel, Maureen C McCann, Phillip SanMiguel, Alan M Myers, Dan Nettleton, John Nguyen, Bryan W Penning, Lalit Ponnala, Kevin L Schneider, David C Schwartz, Anupma Sharma, Carol Soderlund, Nathan M Springer, Qi Sun, Hao Wang, Michael Waterman, Richard Westerman, Thomas K Wolfgruber, Lixing Yang, Yeisoo Yu, Lifang Zhang, Shiguo Zhou, Qihui Zhu, Jeffrey L Bennetzen, R Kelly Dawe, Jiming Jiang, Ning Jiang, Gernot G Presting
Publication date
2009/11/20
Journal
science
Volume
326
Issue
5956
Pages
1112-1115
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
We report an improved draft nucleotide sequence of the 2.3-gigabase genome of maize, an important crop plant and model for biological research. Over 32,000 genes were predicted, of which 99.8% were placed on reference chromosomes. Nearly 85% of the genome is composed of hundreds of families of transposable elements, dispersed nonuniformly across the genome. These were responsible for the capture and amplification of numerous gene fragments and affect the composition, sizes, and positions of centromeres. We also report on the correlation of methylation-poor regions with Mu transposon insertions and recombination, and copy number variants with insertions and/or deletions, as well as how uneven gene losses between duplicated regions were involved in returning an ancient allotetraploid to a genetically diploid state. These analyses inform and set the stage for further investigations to improve …
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