RNDr. Jiří Macas, Ph.D.

Job Position: Head of department - Molecular cytogenetics

Contact details

Phone: +420 387 775 513; +420 387 775 516
E-mail: macas@umbr.cas.cz
Web: w3lamc.umbr.cas.cz/lamc/
Room: 107,101

Publications
Total found: 131 records
Chen J., Bartoš J., Boudichevskaia A., Voigt A., Rabanus-Wallace M.T., Dreissig S., Tulpová Z., Šimková H., Macas J., Kim G., Buhl J., Bürstenbinder K., Blattner F., Fuchs J., Schmutzer T., Himmelbach A., Schubert V., Houben A. (2024) The genetic mechanism of B chromosome drive in rye illuminated by chromosome-scale assembly Nature Communications 15 : 9686.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53799-w
Mata-Sucre Y., Krátká M., Oliveira L., Neumann P., Macas J., Schubert V., Huettel B., Kejnovský E., Houben A., Pedrosa-Harand A., Souza G., 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
Novák P., Hoštáková N., Neumann P., Macas J. (2024) DANTE and DANTE_LTR: computational pipelines implementing lineage-centered annotation of LTR-retrotransposons in plant genomes. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 6(3) : lqae113.
DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqae113
Oliveira L., Neumann P., Mata-Sucre Y., Kuo Y.-T., Marques A., Schubert V., Macas J. (2024) KNL1 and NDC80 represent new universal markers for the detection of centromeres in plants. Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology 3(1) : 3.
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-024-09747-x
Vigouroux M., Novák P., Oliveira L., Santos C., Cheema J., Wouters R.H.M., Paajanen P., Vickers M., Koblížková A., Vaz Patto M., Macas J., Steuernagel B., Martin C., Emmrich P.M.F. (2024) A chromosome-scale reference genome of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus) Scientific Data 11 : 1035.
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03868-y
Edwards A., Njaci I., Sarkar A., Jiang Z., Kaithakottil G.G., Moore C., Cheema J., Stevenson C.E.M., Rejzek M., Novák P., Vigouroux M., Vickers M., Wouters R.H.M., Paajanen P., Steurnagel B., Moore J.D., Higgins J., Swarbreck D., Martens S., Kim C.Y., Weng J.-K., Mundree S., Kilian B., Kumar S., Loose M., Yant L., Macas J., Wang T.L., Martin C., Emmrich P.M.F. (2023) Genomics and biochemical analyses reveal a metabolon key to β-L-ODAP biosynthesis in Lathyrus sativus Nature Communications 14 : 876.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36503-2
Jayakodi M., Golicz A.A., Kreplak J., Fechete L.I., ..., Koblížková A., Neumann P., Novák P., Avila Robledillo L., Macas J., et al. (2023) The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop Nature 615 (7953) : 652–659.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05791-5
Kuo Y.-T., Camara A.S., Schubert V., Neumann P., Macas J., Melzer M., Chen J., Fuchs J., Abel S., Klocke E., Huettel B., Himmelbach A., Demidov D., Dunemann F., Mascher M., Ishii T., 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
Macas J., Avila Robledillo L., Kreplak J., Novák P., Koblížková A., Vrbová I., Burstin J., Neumann P. (2023) Assembly of the 81.6 Mb centromere of pea chromosome 6 elucidates the structure and evolution of metapolycentric chromosomes PLoS Genetics 19(2) : e1010633.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010633
Neumann P., Oliveira L., Jang T., Novák P., Koblížková A., Schubert V., Houben A., Macas J. (2023) Disruption of the standard kinetochore in holocentric Cuscuta species Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 : e2300877120.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.230087712
Ellis N., Vaz Patto M., Rubiales D., Macas J., Novák P., Kumar S., Hao X., Edwards A., Sarkar A., Emmrich P. (2022) Grasspea In: Chapman, M.A. (eds) Underutilised Crop Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. 217–228.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_12
Hofstatter P.G., Thangavel G., Lux T., Neumann P., Vondrak T., Novák P., Zhang M., Costa L., Castellani M., Scott A., Toegelová H., Fuchs J., Mata-Sucre Y., Dias Y., Vanzela A., Huettel B., Almeida C.C.S., Šimková H., Souza G., Pedrosa-Harand A., Macas J., Mayer K., Houben A., Marques A. (2022) Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution Cell 185 : 1-16.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.045
Schley R.J., Pellicer J., Ge X.-J., Barrett C., Bellot S., Guignard M.S., Novák P., Suda J., Fraser D., Baker W.J., Dodsworth S., Macas J., Leitch A., Leitch I. (2022) The ecology of palm genomes: repeat-associated genome size expansion is constrained by aridity New Phytologist 236(2) : 433-446.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18323
Tulpová Z., Kovařík A., Toegelová H., Navrátilová P., Kapustová V., Hřibová E., Vrána J., Macas J., Doležel J., Šimková H. (2022) Fine structure and transcription dynamics of bread wheat ribosomal DNA loci deciphered by a multi-omics approach The Plant Genome 15(1) : e20191.
DOI: 10.1002/tpg2.20191
Hoang P.T.N., Rouillard J.M., Macas J., Kubalová I., Schubert V., Schubert I. (2021) Limitation of current probe design for oligo-cross-FISH, exemplified by chromosome evolution studies in duckweeds Chromosoma 130 : 15-25.
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-020-00749-2
Neumann P., Oliveira L., Čížková J., Jang T., Klemme S., Novák P., Stelmach K., Koblížková A., Doležel J., Macas J. (2021) Impact of parasitic lifestyle and different types of centromere organization on chromosome and genome evolution in the plant genus Cuscuta New Phytologist 229 : 2365–2377.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17003
Vondrak T., Oliveira L., Novák P., Koblížková A., Neumann P., Macas J. (2021) Complex sequence organization of heterochromatin in the holocentric plant Cuscuta europaea elucidated by the computational analysis of nanopore reads Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 19 : 2179-2189.
DOI: 0.1016/j.csbj.2021.04.011
Ainouche A., Paris A., Giraud D., Keller J., Raimondeau P., Mahé P., Neumann P., Novák P., Macas J., Ainouche M., Salmon A., Martin G.E. (2020) The Repetitive Content in Lupin Genomes In: Singh K., Kamphuis L., Nelson M. (eds) The Lupin Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. 161-168.
Avila Robledillo L., Neumann P., Koblížková A., Novák P., Vrbová I., Macas J. (2020) Extraordinary sequence diversity and promiscuity of centromeric satellites in the legume tribe Fabeae Molecular biology and evolution 37 : 2341-2356.
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa090
Burstin J., Kreplak J., Macas J., Lichtenzveig J. (2020) Pisum sativum (Pea). Genome of the Month. Trends in Genetics 36 : 312-313.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.12.009

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Biology Centre CAS
Institute of Plant Molecular Biology
Branišovská 1160/31
370 05 České Budějovice

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