Publications (Journal papers)

o    Ma, W., Gabriel, T. S., Martis, M. M., Gursinsky, T., Schubert, V., Vrana, J., Dolezel, J., Grundlach, H., Altschmied, L., Scholz, U., Himmelbach, A., Behrens, S. E., Banaei-Moghaddam, A. M., and Houben, A. (2016) Rye B chromosomes encode a functional Argonaute-like protein with in vitro slicer activities similar to its A chromosome paralog, The New phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.14110. (co-coresponding author)

o    Karimi-Ashtiyani, R., Ishii, T., Niessen, M., Stein, N., Heckmann, S., Gurushidze, M., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Fuchs, J., Schubert, V., Koch, K., Weiss, O., Demidov, D., Schmidt, K., Kumlehn, J., and Houben, A. (2015). Point mutation impairs centromeric CENH3 loading and induces haploid plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1504333112

o    Ishii, T., Karimi-Ashtiyani, R., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Schubert, V., Fuchs, J., and Houben, A. (2015). The differential loading of two barley CENH3 variants into distinct centromeric substructures is cell type- and development-specific. Chromosome Res 23, 277-284.

o    Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Martis, M.M., Macas, J., Gundlach, H., Himmelbach, A., Altschmied, L., Mayer, K.F., and Houben, A. (2015). Genes on B chromosomes: old questions revisited with new tools. Biochimica et biophysica acta 1849, 64-70.

o    Houben, A., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Klemme, S., and Timmis, J.N. (2014). Evolution and biology of supernumerary B chromosomes. Cell Mol Life Sci 71, 467-478.

o    Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Meier, K., Karimi-Ashtiyani, R., and Houben, A. (2013). Formation and expression of pseudogenes on the B chromosome of rye. The Plant cell 25, 2536-2544.

o    Klemme, S., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Macas, J., Wicker, T., Novak, P., and Houben, A. (2013). High-copy sequences reveal distinct evolution of the rye B chromosome. The New phytologist 199, 550-558.

o    Marques, A., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Klemme, S., Blattner, F.R., Niwa, K., Guerra, M., and Houben, A. (2013). B chromosomes of rye are highly conserved and accompanied the development of early agriculture. Annals of botany 112, 527-534.

o    Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Schubert, V., Kumke, K., Weibeta, O., Klemme, S., Nagaki, K., Macas, J., Gonzalez-Sanchez, M., Heredia, V., Gomez-Revilla, D., Gonzalez-Garcia, M., Vega, J.M., Puertas, M.J., and Houben, A. (2012). Nondisjunction in favor of a chromosome: the mechanism of rye B chromosome drive during pollen mitosis. The Plant cell 24, 4124-4134.

o    Martis, M.M., Klemme, S., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Blattner, F.R., Macas, J., Schmutzer, T., Scholz, U., Gundlach, H., Wicker, T., Simkova, H., Novak, P., Neumann, P., Kubalakova, M., Bauer, E., Haseneyer, G., Fuchs, J., Dolezel, J., Stein, N., Mayer, K.F., and Houben, A. (2012). Selfish supernumerary chromosome reveals its origin as a mosaic of host genome and organellar sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 13343-13346.

o    Moghaddam, A.M., Roudier, F., Seifert, M., Berard, C., Magniette, M.L., Ashtiyani, R.K., Houben, A., Colot, V., and Mette, M.F. (2011). Additive inheritance of histone modifications in Arabidopsis thaliana intra-specific hybrids. Plant J 67, 691-700.

o    Arefian, E., Kiani, J., Soleimani, M., Shariati, S.A., Aghaee-Bakhtiari, S.H., Atashi, A., Gheisari, Y., Ahmadbeigi, N., Banaei-Moghaddam, A.M., Naderi, M., Namvarasl, N., Good, L., and Faridani, O.R. (2011). Analysis of microRNA signatures using size-coded ligation-mediated PCR. Nucleic acids research 39, e80.

o    Ashtiyani, R.K., Moghaddam, A.M., Schubert, V., Rutten, T., Fuchs, J., Demidov, D., Blattner, F.R., and Houben, A. (2011). AtHaspin phosphorylates histone H3 at threonine 3 during mitosis and contributes to embryonic patterning in Arabidopsis. Plant J 68, 443-454.

o    Sanei, M., Pickering, R., Fuchs, J., Banaei Moghaddam, A.M., Dziurlikowska, A., and Houben, A. (2010). Interspecific hybrids of Hordeum marinum ssp. marinum x H. bulbosum are mitotically stable and reveal no gross alterations in chromatin properties. Cytogenetic and genome research 129, 110-116.

o    Banaei Moghaddam, A.M., Fuchs, J., Czauderna, T., Houben, A., and Mette, M.F. (2010). Intraspecific hybrids of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed no gross alterations in endopolyploidy, DNA methylation, histone modifications and transcript levels. TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics 120, 215-226.