Andrea Koblížková

The paper assembles and analyzes the 81.6 Mb centromere of pea chromosome 6, revealing its structure and evolutionary mechanisms in metapolycentric chromosomes.

This study shows that holocentric Cuscuta species have lost the standard kinetochore and SAC, with gene loss and protein mislocalization observed.

The paper examines genome size variation and centromere organization in Cuscuta species, finding that holocentric chromosomes are associated with reduced genome size and changes in repetitive DNA and epigenetic marks.

The paper develops an assembly-free method using nanopore reads to characterize satellite DNA arrays in Lathyrus sativus, revealing differences in their organization and association with LTR-retrotransposons.