Mark A. Beilstein

Identification and Functional Annotation of Long Intergenic Non-coding RNAs in the Brassicaceae

The paper identifies and functionally annotates ~130,000 lincRNAs in four Brassicaceae species using RNA-seq and epigenomic data, highlighting conserved motifs and stress-responsive features.

Evolutionary and biochemical analyses reveal conservation of the Brassicaceae telomerase ribonucleoprotein complex

The paper investigates the evolution and function of telomerase in Brassicaceae plants, finding that TER1 and TER2 are not functional telomerase RNAs and identifying a conserved telomerase RNA locus.

Biased gene retention in the face of massive nuclear introgression obscures species relationships

The paper shows that introgressive hybridization between Arabidopsis relatives leads to biased gene retention, obscuring species relationships due to nuclear introgression.

Evolinc: a comparative transcriptomics and genomics pipeline for quickly identifyingsequence conserved lincRNAs for functional analysis.

Evolinc identifies and characterizes sequence-conserved lincRNAs across species to prioritize candidates for functional analysis.