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Barsh GS, Copenhaver G (2024) A General Passion. PLOS Genetics 20(5): e1011291. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011291. PMID: 38814964


Wang C, Chen Z, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y (2024) Heterochromatin in Plant Meiosis. Nucleus 15:1, doi: 10.1080/19491034.2024.2328719


Wang T, Wang H, Lian Q, Jia Q, You C, Copenhaver GP, Wang C, Wang Y (2023) HEI10 is subject to phase separation and mediates RPA1a degradation during meiotic interference-sensitive crossover formation. PNAS 120(52):e2310542120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2310542120. PMID: 38134200


Wang Y, Chen C, Copenhaver GP, Wang CR (2023) Editorial: Meiosis in Plants: sexual reproduction, genetic variation 1 and crop improvement. Frontiers in Plant Science 14:1294591. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1294591


Xu W, Yu Y, Jing J, Wu Z, Zhang X, You C, Ma H, Copenhaver GP, He Y, Wang Y (2023) SCFRMF mediates degradation of the meiosis-specific recombinase DMC1. Nature Communications 14, 5044. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40799-5. PMID: 37598222


Barsh GS, Butler G, Copenhaver GP, Crosson S, Søgaard-Andersen L, Stukenbrock EH (2023) Endless Microbes Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful. PLOS Genetics 18(2): e1010070. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010070. PMID: 37079624


Wang C, Huang J, Li Y, Zhang J, He C, Li T, Jiang D, Dong A, Ma H, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y (2022) DNA polymerase epsilon binds histone H3.1-H4 and recruits MORC1 to mediate meiotic heterochromatin condensation. PNAS 119(43):e2213540119 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2213540119. PMID: 36260743


Wang C, Huang J, Zhang J, Yu Y, Copenhaver GP, You C, Wang Y (2022) DNA Polymerase Epsilon Interacts with SUVH2/9 to Repress the Expression of Genes Associated with Meiotic DSB Hotspots in Arabidopsis. PNAS 119 (41) e2208441119 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2208441119. PMID: 36191225


Huang J, You C, Wang C, Wang Y, Copenhaver GP (2022) Identification of Small RNAs and Analyzing Their Association with Gene Expression Using Isolated Arabidopsis Male Meiocytes. Methods in Molecular Biology 2484:23-41. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2253-7_3. PMID: 35461442.


He C, Chen Z, Zhao Y, Yu Y, Wang H, Cong W, Copenhaver GP, Qi J, Wang Y (2022) Histone demethylase IBM1-mediated meiocyte gene expression ensures meiotic chromosome synapsis and recombination. PLOS Genetics 18(2): e1010041. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010041. PMID: 35192603


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP, Tang H, Williams S (2022) Expanding Human Variation at PLOS Genetics. PLOS Genetics 18(2): e1010070. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010070. PMID: 35157715


Li X, Zhang J, Huang J, Xu J, Chen Z, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y (2021) Regulation of Interference-sensitive Crossover Distribution Ensures Crossover Assurance in Arabidopsis. PNAS 118 (47) e2107543118. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107543118


Huang J, Wang H, Wang Y and Copenhaver GP (2021) Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of Thermally Stressed Arabidopsis thaliana Meiotic Recombination Mutants. BMC Genomics 22, 181 (2021). doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-07497-2. PMID: 33711924


Sarens M, Copenhaver GP, De Storme N (2021) The Role of Chromatid Interference in Determining Meiotic Crossover Patterns. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:656691. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.656691


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP*, Köhler C, Qu L-J (2020) Kingdom Come. PLOS Genet 16(11): e1009178. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009178


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP* (2020) By What Name Shall I Call Thee? PLOS Genetics e1009167. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009167


Balding DJ, Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP*, Yi C (2020) Mixed Methods. PLOS Genetics 16(7): e1008950. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008950


Wang H, Xu W, Sun Y, Lian Q, Wang C, Yu Chaoyi, He C, Wang J, Ma Ha, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y (2020) The cohesin loader SCC2 contains a PHD finger that is required for meiosis in land plants. PLOS Genetic 16(6): e1008849. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008849

*Featured as Editor’s Choice highlight on Biocom


Huang J, Wang C, Li X, Fang X, Huang N, Ma H, Wang Y, Copenhaver GP (2020) Conservation and divergence in the meiocyte sRNAomes of Arabidopsis, soybean and cucumber. Plant Physiology 182(1) 301-317 doi: 10.1104/pp.19.00807 *

*Accompanied by first author profiles for Jiyue Huang and Cong Wang.


Lim E-C, Kim J, Park J, Kim E-J, Park YM, Kim J, Cho HS, Henderson IR, Copenhaver GP, Hwang I, Choi K (2020) DeepTetrad: High-throughput Image Analysis of Meiotic Tetrads by Deep Learning in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 101(2):473-483 doi: 10.1111/tpj.14543


Barsh GS, Cooper GM, Copenhaver GP, Sirugo G, Tang H, Williams SM (2019) Evaluating the strength of genetic results: risks and responsibilities. PLOS Genetics 15(10): e1008437. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008437


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP, Prakash ES, Zarnescu DC (2019). 2019 PLOS Genetics Research Prize: Fruit fly school – language and dialects for communicating a threat. PLOS Genetics 15(9): e1008381. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008381


Sims J, Copenhaver GP, Schlögelhofer P (2019) Meiotic DNA Repair in the Nucleolus Employs a Non-homologous End Joining Mechanism. Plant Cell 31(9):2259-2275. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00367 *

* This work was featured in a “The Plant Cell: In a Nutshell” highlight entitled “The nucleolus protects the repetitive rDNA during meiosis” by Linda Palmer, and by a first author profile of Jason Sims.


Xu R-Y, Xu J, Wang L, Niu B, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Zheng B, Wang Y (2019) The Arabidopsis anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome subunit 8 is required for male meiosis. New Phytologist 224: 229–241 doi: 10.1111/nph.16014


Sirugo G, Williams SW, Tishkoff SA, Cordell HJ, Marchini J, Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP (2019) The Plight of Muntaser IbrahimPLOS Genetics 15(3): e1008100.  doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008100


Copenhaver GP, Barsh GS (2019) Making Room for Opinions. PLOS Genetics 15(2): e1008015. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008015



Huang J, Wang C, Wang H, Lu P, Zheng B, Ma H, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y (2019) Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent Small RNAs and Their Association with Meiotic Gene Expression and Recombination. The Plant Cell 31(2):444-464. doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00511 *

*This work was featured in an “In Brief” highlight in The Plant Cell entitled “Meiocyte-specific Small RNAs and Meiotic Recombination: Questions and Anthers” by Jennifer Mach (doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00112)


Copenhaver GP, Weir B, Rothstein M, Tang H, Williams SM, Barsh GS (2018) Doubling down on forensic twin studies. PLOS Genetics 14(12): e1007831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007831


Wang C, Huang J, Zhang J, Wang H, Han Y, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2018) The Largest Subunit of DNA Polymerase Delta Is Required for Normal Formation of Meiotic Type I Crossovers. Plant Physiology 179(2):446-459. doi: 10.1104/pp.18.00861


Barsh GS, Bhalla N, Cole F, Copenhaver GP, Lacefield S, Libuda DE (2018) 2018 PLOS Genetics Research Prize:  Bundling, Stabilizing, Organizing - the Orchestration of Acentriolar Spindle Assembly by Microtubule Motor ProteinsPLOS Genetics 14(9): e1007649. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007649


 Modliszewski JL, Wang H, Albright AR, Lewis SM, Bennett AR, Huang J, Ma H, Wang Y, and Copenhaver GP (2018) Elevated Temperature Increases Meiotic Crossover Frequency via the Interfering (Type I) Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.  PLOS Genetics 14(5): e1007384.  doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007384


Kurzbauer MT, Pradillo M, Kerzendorfer C, Sims J, Ladurner R, Oliver C, Janisiw MP, Mosiolek M, Schweizer D, Copenhaver GP and Schlögelhofer P (2018) Arabidopsis thaliana FANCD2 Promotes Meiotic Crossover Formation.  The Plant Cell 30: 415–428.  doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.00745.*

*This work was featured in an In Brief highlight in The Plant Cell entitled “Hold Me Closer: Meiotic Crossover Formation and FANCD2” by Patrice Salomé (doi: 10.1105/tpc.18.00134)


Wang Y and Copenhaver GP (2018) Meiotic Recombination: Mixing It Up In Plants.  Annual Review of Plant Biology 69:13.1–13.33.  doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042817-040431


Su H, Cheng Z, Huang J, Lin J, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2017) Arabidopsis RAD51, RAD51C and XRCC3 proteins form a complex and facilitate RAD51 localization on chromosomes for meiotic recombinationPLOS Genetics 13(5): e1006827. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006827


Modliszewski JL and Copenhaver GP (2017) Meiotic Recombination Gets Stressed Out: CO Frequency is Plastic Under PressureCurrent Opinion in Plant Biology 36: 95–102.  doi: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.11.019


Barsh GS, Bergman CM, Brown CD, Singh ND, Copenhaver GP (2016) Bringing PLOS Genetics Editors to Preprint Servers.  PLOS Genetics 12(12): e1006448. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006448.*

*This work was featured in an news article in The Scientist, by Tracy Vence entitled “Journals Seek Out Preprints


Huang J, Copenhaver GP, Hong M, Wang Y (2016) New Insights into the role of DNA synthesis in meiotic recombination.  Science Bulletin 61(16): 1260-1269.  doi: 10.1007/s11434-016-1126-7


Choi K, Reinhard C, Serra H, Ziolkowski PA, Underwood C, Zhao X, Hardcastle TJ, Yelina NE, Griffin C, Jackson M, Mézard C, McVean G, Copenhaver GP, and Henderson IR (2016) Recombination rate heterogeneity within Arabidopsis disease resistance genes.  PLOS Genetics 12(7): e1006179. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006179


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP (2016) The Language of Genetics in the Interviews of Jane Gitschier.  PLOS Genetics 12(6): e1006115. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006115


Niu B, Wang L, Zhang L, Ren D, Ren R, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2015) The Arabidopsis CDC20.1 Gene is Required for Normal Meiotic Spindle Assembly and Chromosome Segregation.  The Plant Cell 27(12): 3367-3382. doi: 10.1105/tpc.15.00834


Barsh GS, Cooper GM, Copenhaver GP, Gibson G, McCarthy MI, Tang H, Williams SM (2015) PLOS Genetics Data Sharing Policy: In Pursuit of Functional Utility.  PLOS Genetics e1005716. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005716


Copenhaver GP and Barsh GS (2015) A Decad(e) of reasons to contribute to a PLOS Community-run Journal.  PLOS Genetics 11(10): e1005557. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005557


Huang J, Cheng Z, Wang C, Hong Y, Su H, Wang J, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y (2015) Formation of interference-sensitive meiotic crossovers requires sufficient DNA leading strand elongation.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112(40):12534-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1507165112


Modliszewski J and Copenhaver GP (2015) Meiotic recombination heats up.  New Phytologist 208: 295–297.  doi: 10.1111/nph.13618


Lambing C, Osman K, Nuntasoontorn K, West A, Higgins JD, Copenhaver GP, Yang J, Armstrong SJ, Mechtler K, Roitinger E, Franklin FCH (2015) Arabidopsis PCH2 Mediates Meiotic Chromosome Remodeling and Maturation of Crossovers.  PLOS Genetics 11(7): e1005372. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005372


Vara J, Sánchez-Morán E, Copenhaver GP, Santos JL, Pradillo M (2015) Analysis of the Relationships between DNA Double-Strand Breaks, Synaptonemal Complex and Crossovers Using the Atfas1-4 Mutant.  PLOS Genetics 11(7): e1005301.  doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005301 *

* This work was featured as the “Issue Image” (the equivalent of the cover).


Ziolkowski PA, Berchowitz LE, Lambing C, Yelina NE, Zhao X, Kelly KA, Choi K, Ziolkowska L, June V, Sanchez-Moran E, Franklin C, Copenhaver GP, Henderson IR (2015) Juxtaposition of heterozygosity and homozygosity during meiosis causes reciprocal crossover remodeling via interference.  eLife 2015;4:e03708.  doi: 10.7554/eLife.03708


Qi J, Chen Y, Copenhaver GP, Ma H (2014) Detection of Genomic Variations and DNA Polymorphisms and Impact on Analysis of Meiotic Recombination and Genetic Mapping.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.  111(27): 10007–10012.  doi:10.1073/pnas.1321897111 *

* This work was featured in an “In This Issue” highlight (doi: 10.1073/iti2714111)


Lu P, Wijeratne AJ, Wang Z, Copenhaver GP,  Ma H (2014) Arabidopsis PTD Is Required For Type I Crossover Formation and Affects Recombination Frequency in Two Different Chromosomal Regions.  Journal of Genetics and Genomics.  41(3):165-175.  doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2014.02.001


Yelina NE, Ziolkowski PA, Miller N, Zhao X, Kelly KA, Muñoz DF, Mann DJ, Copenhaver GP & Henderson IR (2013) High-throughput analysis of meiotic crossover frequency and interference via flow cytometry of fluorescent pollen in Arabidopsis thaliana.  Nature Protocols. 8(11): 2119–2134.  doi:10.1038/nprot.2013.131


Choi K, Zhao X, Kelly KA, Venn O, Higgins J, Yelina N, Hardcastle T, Ziolkowski P, Copenhaver GP, Franklin C, McVean G, and Henderson IR (2013) Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promotersNature Genetics. 45(11):1327-36. doi: 10.1038/ng.2766


Earnshaw WC, Allshire RC, Black BE, Bloom K, Brinkley BR,  Brown W, Cheeseman IM, Choo KHA, Copenhaver GP, DeLuca JG, Desai A, Diekmann S, Erhardt S, Fitzgerald-Hayes M, Foltz D, Fukagawa T, Gassmann R, Gerlich DW, Glover DM, Gorbsky GJ, Harrison SC, Heun P, Hirota T, Jansen LET, Karpen G, Kops GJP, Lampson MA, Lens SM, Losada A, Luger AK, H. Maiato H, Maddox PS, Margolis RL, Masumoto H, McAinsh AD, Mellone BG, Meraldi P, Musacchio A, Oegema K, O’Neill RJ, Salmon ED, Scott K, Straight AF, Stukenberg PT, Sullivan BA, Sullivan KF, Sunkel CE, Swedlow JR, Walczak CE, Warburton PE, Westermann S, Willard HF, Wordeman L, Yanagida M, Yen TJ, Yoda K and Cleveland DW (2013) Esperanto for Histones: CENP-A, not CenH3, is the centromeric histone H3 variant.  Chromosome Research 21: 101. doi:10.1007/s10577-013-9347-y


Wang Y, Cheng Z, Huang J, Shi Q, Hong Y, Copenhaver GP, Gong Z, Ma H (2012) The DNA Replication Factor RFC1 is Required for Interference-Sensitive Meiotic Crossovers in Arabidopsis thalianaPLoS Genetics 8(11): e1003039. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003039


De Storme N, Copenhaver GP, Geelen D (2012) Production of diploid male gametes in Arabidopsis by cold-induced destabilization of post-meiotic radial microtubule arrays.  Plant Physiology, 160(4): 1808-1826.  doi: 10.1104/pp.112.208611


Sun Y, Ambrose JH, Haughey BS, Webster TD, Pierrie SN, Muñoz DF, Wellman EC, Cherian S, Lewis SM, Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2012) Deep Genome-wide measurement of meiotic gene conversion using tetrad analysis in Arabidopsis thaliana.  PLoS Genetics 8(10): e1002968. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002968 *

* This work was featured as the “Issue Image” (the equivalent of the cover).  It was also recommended by Faculty of 1000. 


Yelina NE, Choi K, Chelysheva L, Macaulay M, de Snoo B, Wijnker E, Miller N, Drouaud J, Grelon M, Copenhaver GP, Mezard C, Kelly KA and Henderson IR (2012)  Epigenetic Remodeling of Meiotic Crossover Frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana DNA Methyltransferase MutantsPLoS Genetics 8(8): e1002844. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002844.*

*This work was featured in an Annals of Botany “Botany One” feature entitled “Why did the chicken cross the road? Because there was a crossover hotspot” by Anne Osterrieder


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP, Gibson G, Williams SM (2012) Guidelines for genome-wide association studies.  PLoS Genetics 8(7) e1002812.doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002812.


Crismani W, Girard C, Forger N, Pradillo M, Santos JL, Chelyscheva L, Copenhaver GP, Horlow C and Mercier R (2012) FANCM Limits Meiotic Crossovers.  Science 336: 1588-1590. doi:10.1126/science.1220381 *

* This work was featured in the “This Week in Science” section in a highlight entitled “No Crossing Over” (Hurtley S, 2012, Science 336: 1480-1481).  It was also recommended by Faculty of 1000.


 Luo S, Mach JM, Abramson BW, Ramirez R, Schurr R, Barone P, Copenhaver GP and Folkerts O (2012) The Cotton Centromere Contains a Ty3-gypsy-like LTR Retroelement.  PLoS ONE 7(4): e35261. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035261


Roy B, Copenhaver GP, von Arnim AG (2011) Fluorescence-Tagged Transgenic Lines Reveal Genetic Defects in Pollen Growth – Application to the Eif3 Complex.  PLoS ONE 6(3): e17640.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017640.


Gibson G, Copenhaver GP (2010) Consent and Internet-Enabled Human GenomicsPLoS Genetics 6(6): e1000965. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000965.


d'Erfurth I, Cromer L, Jolivet S, Girard C, Horlow C, Sun Y, To JPC, Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP, Mercier R (2010) The CYCLIN-A CYCA1;2/TAM Is Required for the Meiosis I to Meiosis II Transition and Cooperates with OSD1 for the Prophase to First Meiotic Division TransitionPLoS Genetics 6(6): e1000989. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000989.


Copenhaver GP & Preuss D (2010) Haploidy with histonesNature Biotechnology 28(5): 423-424.  doi:10.1038/nbt0510-423


Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP  (2010) Genetic interference: don’t stand so close to me.  Current Genomics 11:91-102. doi:10.2174/138920210790886835


Berchowitz LE, Hanlon SE, Lieb JD, Copenhaver GP (2009) A positive but complex association between meiotic double-strand break hotspots and open chromatin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.  Genome Research 19:2245-2257. doi:10.1101/gr.096297.109 *

* This work was recommended by Faculty of 1000.


Barsh GS, Copenhaver GP (2009) Scientists ← Editors ← Scientists: Past, present, and future for PLoS Genetics.  PLoS Genet 5(7): e1000580. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000580


Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2009) Visual Markers for Detecting Gene Conversion Directly in the Gametes of Arabidopsis thaliana.  In Meiosis Volume 1 Molecular and Genetic Methods, ed. Scott Keeney Volume 557 of the series Methods in Molecular Biology pp 99-114.  doi:10.1007/978-1-59745-527-5_8


Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2008) Division of Labor Among Meiotic Genes.  Nature Genetics 40:266-267.  doi:10.1038/ng0308-266


Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP (2008) Fluorescent Arabidopsis tetrads: A visual assay for quickly developing large crossover and crossover interference datasets.  Nature Protocols 3(1): 41-50.  doi:10.1038/nprot.2007.491 *

* This work was featured on the cover.


Copenhaver GP and Hooykaas PJJ (2007) Plant DNA Repair and Recombination on the French Mediterranean.  EMBO Reports 8:1115-9.  doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7401123


Carlson SR, Rudgers GW, Zieler H, Mach JM, Luo S, Grunden E, Krol C, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D (2007) Meiotic transmission of an in vitro-assembled autonomous maize mini-chromosome.  PLoS Genetics 3(10): e179 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030179 *

* This work was featured in a Scientific American.com News article entitled “Artificial Chromosome Poised to Pump Up GM Crops with Extra Genes” (Minkel, JR, 10/23/2007).  It was also featured in an article in The News & Observer newspaper article entitled “Is Gene Stacking the Next Big Thing” (Simmons, T, 10/19/2007)


Berchowitz LE, Francis KE, Bey AL, Copenhaver GP (2007) The Role of AtMUS81 in Interference-Insensitive Crossovers in A. thaliana.  PLoS Genetics 3(8): e132. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030132


Sandaklie-Nikolova L, Palanivelu R, King E, Copenhaver GP, Drews GN (2007) Synergid Cell Death in Arabidopsis is Triggered Following Direct Interaction with the Pollen Tube.  Plant Physiology 144: 1753-1762. doi:10.1104/pp.107.098236


Francis KE, Lam SY, Harrison BD, Bey AL, Berchowitz LE and Copenhaver GP (2007) Pollen Tetrad-based Visual Assay for Meiotic Recombination in Arabidopsis.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.104: 3913-3918.  doi:10.1073/pnas.0608936104 *

* This work was featured in a commentary entitled “Meiosis in Living Color:  Fluorescence-based tetrad analysis in Arabidopsis” (Hawley RS, 2007, PNAS 104: 3673-3674). It was also featured in a research highlight entitled “Full-color Crossovers” (Packer A, 2007, Nature Genetics 39: 449) and in a Nature Genetics “Touching Base” column entitled “Mutant of the month” (Packer A, 2007, Nature Genetics 39: 447).  It was recommended by Faculty of 1000.


Francis KE, Berchowitz LE, Copenhaver GP (2006) Separation of Arabidopsis Pollen Tetrads is Regulated by QRT1, a Pectin Methylesterase Gen.  Plant Physiology 142: 1004-1013.  doi:10.1104/pp.106.085274


Copenhaver GP (2006) A Meiotic Tapas Menu.  PLoS Genetics2(2): e19. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0020019


Lam S, Horn SR, Radford SJ, Housworth EA, Stahl FW and Copenhaver GP (2005) Crossover interference on the NOR bearing chromosomes of ArabidopsisGenetics 170(2): 807-812.  doi:10.1534/genetics.104.040055


Copenhaver GP (2005) Plant Genetics: When Not to InterfereCurrent Biology 15(8): R290-1.  doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.04.007


Copenhaver GP (2005) A Compendium of Plant Species Producing Pollen Tetrads.  J. N. Carolina Acad. of Sci. 121(1): 17-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24336002

 

Copenhaver GP (2004) Who's driving the centromere? Journal of Biology 3(4):17.  doi:10.1186/jbiol15


Stahl FW, Foss HM, Young LS, Borts RH, Abdullah MFF and Copenhaver GP (2004) Does Crossover Interference Count in Saccharomyces cerevisiae? Genetics 168(1): 35-48.  doi:10.1534/genetics.104.027789 *

* This work was featured in the GENEtics newsletter 1(2): 3.


Hall A, Hall S, Keith K, Copenhaver GP, Preusss D (2004) The rapidly evolving field of plant centromere.  Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 7(2)108-14.  doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2004.01.008


Copenhaver GP (2003) Using Arabidopsis to understand centromere function: Progress and prospects.  Chromosome Research 11(3):255-62.  doi:10.1023/A:1022887926807


Chang Y-L, Henriquez X, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D, and Zhang H-B (2003) A Plant Transformation-competent Binary BAC (BIBAC) library from the Landsberg ecotype of Arabidopsis thaliana.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 106(2):269-76.  doi:10.1007/s00122-002-1074-2


Krysan PJ,. Young JC,. Jester PJ, Monson S, Copenhaver G, Preuss D, and Sussman MR (2002).  Characterization of T-DNA Insertion Sites in Arabidopsis thaliana and the Implications for Saturation Mutagenesis.  Omics 6(2):163-74.  doi:10.1089/153623102760092760


Copenhaver GP, Housworth E, Stahl FS (2002) Crossover Interference in Arabidopsis.  Genetics 160(4):1631-9.  PMID: 11973316


The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative: Genome Sequencing Groups:  Kaul S, Koo HL, Jenkins J, Rizzo M, Rooney T, Tallon LJ, FeldblyumT, Nierman W, Benito M-I, Lin X, Town CD, Venter JC, Fraser CM, Tabata S, Nakamura Y, Kaneko T, Sato S, Asamizu E, Kato T, KotaniH, Sasamoto S, Ecker JR, Theologis A, Federspiel NA, Palm CJ, Osborne BI, Shinn P, Conway AB, Vysotskaia VS, Dewar K, Conn L, Lenz CA, Kim CJ, Hansen NF, LiuSX, Buehler E, Altafi H, Sakano H, Dunn P, Lam B, Pham PK, Chao Q, Nguyen M, Yu G, Chen H, Southwick A, Lee JM, Miranda M, Toriumi MJ, Davis RW, Wambutt R, Murphy G, Düsterhöft A, Stiekema W, Pohl T, Entian K-D, Terryn N, Volckaert G, Salanoubat M, Choisne N, Rieger M, Ansorge W, Unseld M, Fartmann B, Valle G, Artiguenave F, Weissenbach J, Quetier F, Wilson R, de la Bastide M, Sekhon M, Huang E, Spiegel L, Gnoj L, Pepin K, Murray J, Johnson D, Habermann K, Dedhia N, Parnell L, Preston R, Hillier L, Chen E, Marra M, Martienssen R, McCombie WR, Genome Analysis Group:  Mayer K, White O, Bevan M, Lemcke K, Creasey TH, Bielke C, Haas B, Haase D, Maiti R, Rudd S, Peterson J, Schoof H, Frishman D, Morgenstern B, Zaccaria P, ErmolaevaM, Pertea M, Quackenbush J, Volfovsky N, Wu D, Lowe T, Salzberg SL, Mewes H-W, Contributing Authors:  Rounsley S, Bush D, Subramaniam S, Levin I, Norris S, Schmidt R, Acarkan A, Bancroft I, Quetier F, Brennicke A, Eisen JA, Bureau T, Legault B-A, Le Q-H, Agrawal N, Yu Z, Martienssen R, Copenhaver GP, Luo S, Pikaard CSPreuss D, Paulsen IT, Sussman M, Britt A, SelingerDA, Pandey R, Mount DW, Chandler VL, Jorgensen RA, Juergens G, Meyerowitz EM, Ecker JR, Theologis A, Dangl J & Jones JDG, Chen M, Chory J, and Somerville C.(2000) Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana.  Nature 408(6814):796-815.  doi:10.1038/35048692 *

* This work was featured on the cover, and our contribution was also highlighted in “A Journey to the Center of the Chromosome” (C. Mlot, 2000, Science 290:2057-2059).


Copenhaver GP, Keith KC, Preuss D (2000) Tetrad Analysis in Higher Plants: A Budding Technology.  Plant Physiology 124(1):7-16.  doi:10.1104/pp.124.1.7 *

* An illustration from this paper was used as the cover of the issue


Copenhaver GP, Nickel K, Kuromori T., Benito M-I, Kaul S, Lin X, Bevan M, Murphy G, Harris B, Parnell LD, McCombie WR, Martienssen RA, Marra M, Preuss D (1999) Genetic Definition and Sequence Analysis of Arabidopsis Centromere.  Science 286(5449):2468-74.  doi:10.1126/science.286.5449.2468


Lin X, Kaul S, Rounsley S, Shea TP, Benito M-I, Town CD, Fujii CY, Mason T, Bowman CL, Barnstead M, Feldblyum T, Buell CR, Ketchum KA, Ronning CM, Koo H, Moffat K, Cronin L, Shen M, Pai G, Van Aken S, Umayam L, Tallon L, Gill J, Adams MD, Carrera AJ, Creasy TH, Goodman, HM, Somerville CR, Copenhaver GP, Preuss D., Nierman WC, White O, Eisen JA, Salzberg S, Fraser, CM, Venter JC (1999) Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 402(6763):761-8.  doi:10.1038/45471 *

 * This work was featured in a cover caption


Copenhaver GP, Preuss D. (1999) Centromeres in the genomic era:  Unraveling paradoxes.  Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 2(2):104-8.  doi:10.1016/S1369-5266(99)80021-1


Copenhaver GP, Browne WE, Preuss D (1998) Assaying genome-wide recombination and centromere functions with Arabidopsis tetrads. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 95(1):247-52.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.1.247


Copenhaver GP, Pikaard CS (1996) Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomal DNA.  Weeds World 3(i): 17-2.  https://www.arabidopsis.org/weedsworld/Vol3i/copenhaver.html




Copenhaver GP, Doelling JH, Gens SJ, Pikaard (1995) Use of RFLPs larger than 100 kbp to map the position and internal organization of the nucleolus organizer region on chromosome 2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 7(2):273-86.  doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.1995.7020273.x


Putnam CD, Copenhaver GP, Denton M, Pikaard CS (1994 ) The RNA polymerase I transactivator upstream binding factor requires its dimerization domain and high-mobility-group (HMG) box 1 to bend, wrap and positively supercoil enhancer DNA. Molecular and Cellular Biology 14(10):6476-88.  doi: 10.1128/MCB.14.10.6476


 Copenhaver GP, Putnam CD, Denton M, Pikaard CS (1994) The RNA polymerase I transcription factor UBF is a sequence-tolerant HMG-box protein that can recognize structured nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Research 22(13): 2651-2657.  doi:10.1093/nar/22.13.2651


Roose ML, Federici CT, Copenhaver GP (1992) Genetic Diversity in Pummelo (Citrus maxima [Burm.] Merrill), Citron (C. medica L.) and Trifoliate Orange (Poncirus trifoliata [L.] Raf) Evaluated Using RFLPs. HortScience 27(6): 624b-624. doi: 10.21273/HORTSCI.27.6.624b


 Ancillary Publications (non-indexed)

Copenhaver GP (2015) Everyone is Biased and Conflicted, Now What? Web blog post. Plant Science Today. ASPB, 28 Sept. 2015.  http://blog.aspb.org/2015/09/16/everyone-is-biased-and-conflicted-now-what/

Copenhaver GP (2015) Do GMOs Accelerate Pesticide Resistance? Web blog post. Feed The Dialog. North Carolina Animal Agricultural Coalition, 1 Nov. 2015.  http://feedthedialoguenc.com/2013/11/26/do-gmos-accelerate-pesticide-resistance/

Copenhaver GP (2014) Meiosis Gordon Conference.  Web blog post.  PLOS Biologue.  PLOS Blogs, 30 May, 2014. http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2014/05/30/meiosis-gordon-conference-gregory-copenhaver/ 

Copenhaver GP (2005) "Letter from the President." North Carolina Academy of Science Newsletter, Spring 2005. North Carolina Academy of Science. Web.