Publications

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Selected publications

2026

Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis

Nature

2025

Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis

Nature

2024

Meiotic recombination dynamics in plants with repeat-based holocentromeres shed light on the primary drivers of crossover patterning

Nature Plants

2024

Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal insights into the evolutionary transition to holocentricity

Nature Communications

2022

Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution

Cell

Preprints

Nascimento T, [demais autores], Marques A (2026). Haplotype-specific chromosome painting unveils recombination patterns in the holocentric species Rhynchospora breviuscula H.Pfeiff. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.06.24.733714

[Outros preprints em aberto]

2026

Zhang M, Castellani M, Steckenborn S, et al., Marques A (2026). Sex without crossovers mimics clonal reproduction in Rhynchospora tenuis. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11057-7

Goldbecker ES, Varshney D, Holzhausen A, et al. (2026). The Spirogyra pratensis genome illuminates the evolution of developmental programs and spiral chloroplast biology. The Plant Cell 38(8): koag224. doi:10.1093/plcell/koag224

Brand J, Patil A, Pandolfini L, et al. (2026). Stepwise emergence of recombination suppression precedes fissiparous asexuality in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Nature Communications 17: 5588. doi:10.1038/s41467-026-74605-9

Gómez-Ramos I, Sánchez-Villegas R, Mohan AV, et al. (2026). Chromosomal inversions accelerate genetic evolution and drive ecological speciation across an island gradient. PNAS 123(33): e2604805123. doi:10.1073/pnas.2604805123

Albert VA, Ávila Robledillo L, Fleck SJ, et al. (2026). Complexity and innovation in carnivorous plant genomes. Trends in Genetics 42: 629–645. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2026.01.015

2025

Herklotz V, Zhang M, Nascimento T, et al., Marques A, Ritz CM (2025). Bimodal centromeres in pentaploid dogroses shed light on their unique meiosis. Nature 643: 148–157. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09171-z

Marques A, Drinnenberg IA (2025). Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 93: 102484. doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2025.102484

Steckenborn S, Marques A (2025). Centromere diversity and its evolutionary impacts on plant karyotypes and plant reproduction. New Phytologist 245: 1879–1886. doi:10.1111/nph.20376

Almeida C, Marques A (2025). Giant mitogenomes in Rhynchospora are a result of nuclear gene and retrotransposon insertions in intergenic spaces. Annals of Botany: mcaf098. doi:10.1093/aob/mcaf098

Martins G, Oliveira dos Santos JD, Barros da Silva F, et al. (2025). Can repeatomic similarity favour interspecific hybridization? Comparative analysis of repetitive elements among Spondias species (Anacardiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society: boaf053. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boaf053

2024

Mata-Sucre Y, Krátká M, Oliveira L, et al., Marques A (2024). Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal insights into the evolutionary transition to holocentricity. Nature Communications 15: 9565. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-53944-5

Castellani M, Zhang M, Thangavel G, et al., Marques A (2024). Meiotic recombination dynamics in plants with repeat-based holocentromeres shed light on the primary drivers of crossover patterning. Nature Plants 10: 423–438. doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01625-y

How plants with hundreds of centromeres crossover (2024). Research briefing. Nature Plants. doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01646-7

Ivanković M, Brand JN, Pandolfini L, et al. (2024). A comparative analysis of planarian genomes reveals regulatory conservation in the face of rapid structural divergence. Nature Communications 15: 8215. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-52380-9

Mata-Sucre Y, Parteka LM, Ritz CM, et al., Marques A (2024). Oligo-barcode illuminates holocentric karyotype evolution in Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae). Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1330927. doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1330927

Dias Y, Mata-Sucre Y, Thangavel G, et al. (2024). How diverse a monocentric chromosome can be? Repeatome and centromeric organization of Juncus effusus (Juncaceae). The Plant Journal. doi:10.1111/tpj.16712

Castro N, Vilela B, Mata-Sucre Y, et al. (2024). Repeatome evolution across space and time: Unravelling repeats dynamics in the plant genus Erythrostemon Klotzsch (Leguminosae Juss). Molecular Ecology: e17510. doi:10.1111/mec.17510

Souza TB, Parteka LM, Kuo YT, et al. (2024). Distinct patterns of satDNA distribution in holocentric chromosomes of spike-sedges (Eleocharis, Cyperaceae). Genome. doi:10.1139/gen-2024-0089

2023

Thangavel G, Hofstatter PG, Mercier R, Marques A (2023). Tracing the evolution of the plant meiotic molecular machinery. Plant Reproduction. doi:10.1007/s00497-022-00456-1

Kuo Y-T, Souza Câmara A, Schubert V, et al., Marques A, Houben A (2023). Holocentromeres can consist of merely a few megabase-sized satellite arrays. Nature Communications 14: 3502. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38922-7

Escudero M, Marques A, Lucek K, Hipp AL (2023). Genomic hotspots of chromosome rearrangements explain conserved synteny despite high rates of chromosome evolution in a holocentric lineage. Molecular Ecology. doi:10.1111/mec.17086

Saul F, Scharmann M, Wakatake T, et al. (2023). Subgenome dominance shapes novel gene evolution in the decaploid pitcher plant Nepenthes gracilis. Nature Plants. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01562-2

Costa L, Marques A, Buddenhagen CE, Pedrosa-Harand A, Souza G (2023). Investigating the diversification of holocentromeric satDNA Tyba in Rhynchospora (Cyperaceae). Annals of Botany: mcad036. doi:10.1093/aob/mcad036

Mata-Sucre Y, Matzenauer W, Souza Castro NM, et al. (2023). Repeat-based phylogenomics shed light on unclear relationships in the monocentric genus Juncus L. (Juncaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution: 107930. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107930

Castro N, Mata-Sucre Y, Carvalho-Sobrinho J, et al. (2023). Genomic stability in Cenostigma Tul. (Caesalpinioideae, Fabaceae): causes and consequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society: boad043. doi:10.1093/botlinnean/boad043

2022

Hofstatter PG, Thangavel G, Lux T, et al., Marques A (2022). Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution. Cell. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.045

Marques A, Hufnagel B, Soriano A, Péret B (2022). The highly repeat-diverse (peri)centromeres of white lupin (Lupinus albus L.). Frontiers in Plant Science 13. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.862079

2021

Hofstatter PG, Thangavel G, Castellani M, Marques A (2021). Meiosis progression and recombination in holocentric plants: What is known? Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 658296. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.658296

Costa L, Marques A, Buddenhagen C, et al. (2021). Aiming off the target: recycling target capture sequencing reads for investigating repetitive DNA. Annals of Botany 128(7): 835–848. doi:10.1093/aob/mcab063

Oliveira MAS, Nunes T, Dos Santos MA, et al., Marques A (2021). High-throughput genomic data reveal complex phylogenetic relationships in Stylosanthes Sw (Leguminosae). Frontiers in Genetics 12: 727314. doi:10.3389/fgene.2021.727314

Barbosa P, Schemczssen-Graeff Z, Marques A, et al. (2021). Silencing of transposable elements mediated by 5-mC and compensation of the heterochromatin content by presence of B chromosomes in Astyanax scabripinnis. Cells 10: 1162. doi:10.3390/cells10051162

2020

Hufnagel B, Marques A, Soriano A, et al. (2020). High-quality genome sequence of white lupin provides insight into soil exploration and seed quality. Nature Communications 11: 492. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14197-9

Burchardt P, Buddenhagen CE, Gaeta ML, et al. (2020). Holocentric karyotype evolution in Rhynchospora is marked by intense numerical, structural, and genome size changes. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 536507. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.536507