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Crop Improvement – Plant Nuclear Genomes

Posted on Sunday, 15 October, 2017 by

328. Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Crop Improvement: Plant Nuclear Genomes. Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences 2nd Edition. In proof. Plant breeders work with large amounts of DNA sequence information including the sequences of all genes and the repetitive DNA that makes … Continue reading →

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Chloroplast genomes from apomictic Taraxacum – identity and variation between microspecies

Posted on Thursday, 09 February, 2017 by

Taraxacum or dandelion chloroplast sequence diversity. Salih et al. PLoS One 2017. 333. Salih RHM, Majeský L, Schwarzacher T, Gornall R, Heslop-Harrison P. 2017.  Complete chloroplast genomes from apomictic Taraxacum (Asteraceae): Identity and variation between three microspecies. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0168008. … Continue reading →

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Molecular Cytogenetics Group – an infographic of what we do

Posted on Thursday, 16 June, 2016 by

Infographic: what we do in the Molecular Cytogenetics Research Group

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Preparation and fluorescent analysis of plant metaphase chromosomes

Posted on Tuesday, 12 January, 2016 by

TS. Schwarzacher T. 2016. Preparation and fluorescent analysis of plant metaphase chromosomes. Chapter 7. In: Plant Cell Division: Methods and Protocols, ed Caillaud M-C; Methods in Molecular Biology 1370: 87-103. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3142-2_7. Humana Press, Springer, New York. Local Copy: Chromosome … Continue reading →

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Plant Virus Evolution and Pararetroviruses in Petunia

Posted on Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 by

TS. Hohn T, Richert-Pöggeler KR, Staginnus C, Harper G, Schwarzacher T, Teo CH, Teycheney P-Y, Iskra-Caruana M-L, Hull R. 2008. Evolution of Integrated Plant Viruses. Chapter 4 pp 53-81. In: Plant Virus Evolution Ed Roossinck MJ. Springer: Berlin Link to Publisher … Continue reading →

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Evidence of convergent evolution in humans and macaques supports an adaptive role for copy number variation of the β-defensin-2 gene

Posted on Monday, 03 November, 2014 by

Ottolini B, Hornsby MJ, Abujaber R, Macarthur JA, Badge RM, Schwarzacher T, Albertson DG, Bevins CL, Solnick JV, Hollox EJ. 2014. Evidence of convergent evolution in humans and macaques supports an adaptive role for copy number variation of the β-defensin-2 … Continue reading →

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In situ hybridization: a course on FISH and ChIp

Posted on Thursday, 19 December, 2013 by

In situ hybridization – a course on FISH and ChIp In situ hybridization, now largely with fluorescent detection so ‘fluorescent in situ hybridization’ or FISH, is a key method for localizing DNA sequences along chromosomes and occassionally within interphase nuclei. … Continue reading →

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