EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution

Old cogs, new tricks: the evolution of gene expression in a chromatin context

(2019) Paul B. Talbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Transposition favors the generation of large effect mutations that may facilitate rapid adaption

(2019) Leandro Quadrana et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence for the implication of the histone code in building the genome structure

(2018) Kirti Prakash et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

The cellular mechanisms and consequences of centromere drive

(2018) Lisa E Kursel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Archaeal DNA on the histone merry-go-round

(2018) Sudipta Bhattacharyya et al.   FEBS Journal

LHP1 Interacts with ATRX through Plant-Specific Domains at Specific Loci Targeted by PRC2

(2018) Haifeng Wang et al.   Molecular Plant

Evolutionary analysis indicates that DNA alkylation damage is a byproduct of cytosine DNA methyltransferase activity

(2018) Silvana Rošić et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Histone H2A variants confer specific properties to nucleosomes and impact on chromatin accessibility

(2018) Akihisa Osakabe et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Challenges and guidelines toward 4D nucleome data and model standards

(2018) Marc A. Marti-Renom et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Structure and function of archaeal histones

(2018) Bram Henneman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Histones predate the split between bacteria and archaea

(2018) Vikram Alva et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Loss of Gene Body Methylation in Eutrema salsugineum Is Associated with Reduced Gene Expression

(2018) Aline Muyle et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A chromatin integration labelling method enables epigenomic profiling with lower input

(2018) Akihito Harada et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Recurrent Gene Duplication Leads to Diverse Repertoires of Centromeric Histones in Drosophila Species

(2017) Lisa E. Kursel et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A heterochromatin-dependent transcription machinery drives piRNA expression

(2017) Peter Refsing Andersen et al.   NATURE

Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by genome architecture mapping

(2017) Robert A. Beagrie et al.   NATURE

Structure of histone-based chromatin in Archaea

(2017) Francesca Mattiroli et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic analysis of the core histone doublet and DNA topo II genes of Marseilleviridae: evidence of proto-eukaryotic provenance

(2017) Albert J. Erives   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Evolution of sequence-specific anti-silencing systems in Arabidopsis

(2017) Aoi Hosaka et al.   Nature Communications

An efficient targeted nuclease strategy for high-resolution mapping of DNA binding sites

(2017) Peter J Skene et al.   eLife

Hide and seek: how chromatin-based pathways silence retroelements in the mammalian germline

(2016) Antoine Molaro et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

A Multiplexed System for Quantitative Comparisons of Chromatin Landscapes

(2016) Peter van Galen et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Transcriptional Framework of Male Gametogenesis in the LiverwortMarchantia polymorphaL.

(2016) Asuka Higo et al.   PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Splicing repression allows the gradual emergence of new Alu-exons in primate evolution

(2016) Jan Attig et al.   eLife

The Developmental Control of Transposable Elements and the Evolution of Higher Species

(2015) Marc Friedli et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

The plant Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) existed in the ancestor of seed plants and has a complex duplication history

(2015) Lidija Berke et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Stress-induced structural changes in plant chromatin

(2015) Aline V Probst et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology: a vision for the 21st century

(2015) Armin P. Moczek et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Targeting of P-Element Reporters to Heterochromatic Domains by Transposable Element 1360 in Drosophila melanogaster

(2015) K. L. Huisinga et al.   GENETICS

An Overview of Genome Organization and How We Got There: from FISH to Hi-C

(2015) James Fraser et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Sexual Selection of Protamine 1 in Mammals

(2015) Lena Lüke et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation

(2015) Jason D. Buenrostro et al.   NATURE

The effects of chromatin organization on variation in mutation rates in the genome

(2015) Kateryna D. Makova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Diversification of histone H2A variants during plant evolution

(2015) Tomokazu Kawashima et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Initiation of Meiotic Homologous Recombination: Flexibility, Impact of Histone Modifications, and Chromatin Remodeling

(2015) Lóránt Székvölgyi et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Naturally Occurring Differences in CENH3 Affect Chromosome Segregation in Zygotic Mitosis of Hybrids

(2015) Shamoni Maheshwari et al.   PLoS Genetics

DNA methylation in Arabidopsis has a genetic basis and shows evidence of local adaptation

(2015) Manu J Dubin et al.   eLife

The Histone Variant H2A.W Defines Heterochromatin and Promotes Chromatin Condensation in Arabidopsis

(2014) Ramesh Yelagandula et al.   CELL

Suv39h-Dependent H3K9me3 Marks Intact Retrotransposons and Silences LINE Elements in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

(2014) Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary cell biology: Two origins, one objective: Fig. 1.

(2014) Michael Lynch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamic aspects of spermiogenic chromatin condensation patterning by phase separation during the histone-to-protamine transition in charalean algae and relation to bryophytes

(2014) H.E. Kasinsky et al.   TISSUE & CELL

Recurrent loss of CenH3 is associated with independent transitions to holocentricity in insects

(2014) Ines A Drinnenberg et al.   eLife

Evolution of histone 2A for chromatin compaction in eukaryotes

(2014) Benjamin R Macadangdang et al.   eLife

Organizing the genome with H2A histone variants

(2013) Catherine B. Millar   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Endogenous retroviruses function as species-specific enhancer elements in the placenta

(2013) Edward B Chuong et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position

(2013) Jason D Buenrostro et al.   NATURE METHODS

Histone Variant HTZ1 Shows Extensive Epistasis with, but Does Not Increase Robustness to, New Mutations

(2013) Joshua B. Richardson et al.   PLoS Genetics

Holocentric chromosomes: convergent evolution, meiotic adaptations, and genomic analysis

(2012) Daniël P. Melters et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Single Molecule Studies of DNA-Protamine Interactions

(2012) Laura H. Cree et al.   PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS

Protamines: Structural Complexity, Evolution and Chromatin Patterning

(2012) Harold E. Kasinsky et al.   PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS

Nucleosomes Suppress Spontaneous Mutations Base-Specifically in Eukaryotes

(2012) Xiaoshu Chen et al.   SCIENCE

A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants

(2012) Paul B Talbert et al.   Epigenetics & Chromatin

Phylogenomic Analysis Reveals Dynamic Evolutionary History of the Drosophila Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) Gene Family

(2012) Mia T. Levine et al.   PLoS Genetics

Widespread signatures of recent selection linked to nucleosome positioning in the human lineage

(2011) J. G. D. Prendergast et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Impact of chromatin structure on sequence variability in the human genome

(2011) Michael Y Tolstorukov et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evo-devo and accounting for Darwin's endless forms

(2011) P. M. Brakefield   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chromatin regulators as capacitors of interspecies variations in gene expression

(2010) Itay Tirosh et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

MicroRNA control of signal transduction

(2010) Masafumi Inui et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Origin and evolution of chromosomal sperm proteins

(2009) José M. Eirín-López et al.   BIOESSAYS

Sexual selection drives weak positive selection in protamine genes and high promoter divergence, enhancing sperm competitiveness

(2009) J. Martin-Coello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome

(2009) E. Lieberman-Aiden et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of the Nucleosome Code on Protein-Coding Sequence Evolution in Yeast

(2008) Tobias Warnecke et al.   PLoS Genetics