Robert J. Schmitz
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Robert J. Schmitz's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Plant Biology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert J. Schmitz is an American plant biologist and epigenomicist at the University of Georgia where he studies the generation and phenotypic consequences of plant epialleles as well as developing new techniques to identify and study cis-regulatory sequences. He is an associate professor in the department of genetics and the UGA Foundation Endowed Pant Sciences Professor.
Robert J. Schmitz's Published Works
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Published Works
- 1,135 Genomes Reveal the Global Pattern of Polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana (2016) (840)
- Widespread dynamic DNA methylation in response to biotic stress (2012) (801)
- The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut (2016) (603)
- Transgenerational Epigenetic Instability Is a Source of Novel Methylation Variants (2011) (596)
- Epigenomic Diversity in a Global Collection of Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions (2016) (481)
- Patterns of Population Epigenomic Diversity (2013) (472)
- Targeted genome modifications in soybean with CRISPR/Cas9 (2015) (435)
- Linking photoreceptor excitation to changes in plant architecture. (2012) (433)
- Processing and Subcellular Trafficking of ER-Tethered EIN2 Control Response to Ethylene Gas (2012) (391)
- Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms (2016) (385)
- Temporal transcriptional response to ethylene gas drives growth hormone cross-regulation in Arabidopsis (2013) (332)
- Integration of omic networks in a developmental atlas of maize (2016) (305)
- RF1 Knockout Allows Ribosomal Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids at Multiple Sites (2011) (294)
- Gene body DNA methylation in plants. (2017) (261)
- Widespread adenine N6-methylation of active genes in fungi (2017) (239)
- On the origin and evolutionary consequences of gene body DNA methylation (2016) (235)
- Circadian oscillations of protein-coding and regulatory RNAs in a highly dynamic mammalian liver epigenome. (2012) (230)
- 'Leveling' the playing field for analyses of single-base resolution DNA methylomes. (2012) (228)
- Epigenome-wide inheritance of cytosine methylation variants in a recombinant inbred population (2013) (227)
- MethylC-seq library preparation for base-resolution whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (2015) (224)
- A PHD finger protein involved in both the vernalization and photoperiod pathways in Arabidopsis. (2006) (222)
- Evolution of DNA Methylation across Insects (2016) (216)
- Two Putative BIN2 Substrates Are Nuclear Components of Brassinosteroid Signaling1 (2002) (198)
- Rate, spectrum, and evolutionary dynamics of spontaneous epimutations (2015) (190)
- Genome-wide identification of CCA1 targets uncovers an expanded clock network in Arabidopsis (2015) (187)
- Combining ATAC-seq with nuclei sorting for discovery of cis-regulatory regions in plant genomes (2016) (178)
- Evolutionary Conservation of the FLOWERING LOCUS C-Mediated Vernalization Response: Evidence From the Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris) (2007) (163)
- RNA-directed DNA methylation enforces boundaries between heterochromatin and euchromatin in the maize genome (2015) (159)
- Widespread Long-range Cis-Regulatory Elements in the Maize Genome (2019) (158)
- Sigma factor-mediated plastid retrograde signals control nuclear gene expression. (2013) (158)
- Exploiting induced and natural epigenetic variation for crop improvement (2017) (154)
- Arabidopsis Brassinosteroid-Insensitive dwarf12Mutants Are Semidominant and Defective in a Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3β-Like Kinase1 (2002) (154)
- Unique cell-type specific patterns of DNA methylation in the root meristem (2016) (148)
- De novo assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of 26 diverse maize genomes (2021) (144)
- Improving nanopore read accuracy with the R2C2 method enables the sequencing of highly multiplexed full-length single-cell cDNA (2018) (141)
- Vernalization: a model for investigating epigenetics and eukaryotic gene regulation in plants. (2007) (137)
- The prevalence, evolution and chromatin signatures of plant regulatory elements (2019) (134)
- Histone arginine methylation is required for vernalization-induced epigenetic silencing of FLC in winter-annual Arabidopsis thaliana (2008) (128)
- Genomic Distribution of H3K9me2 and DNA Methylation in a Maize Genome (2014) (126)
- Subgenome Dominance in an Interspecific Hybrid, Synthetic Allopolyploid, and a 140-Year-Old Naturally Established Neo-Allopolyploid Monkeyflower[OPEN] (2017) (124)
- Epigenetics: Beyond Chromatin Modifications and Complex Genetic Regulation1 (2014) (120)
- Photoperiodic control of the floral transition through a distinct polycomb repressive complex. (2014) (116)
- Putting DNA methylation in context: from genomes to gene expression in plants. (2017) (113)
- The evolution of CHROMOMETHYLASES and gene body DNA methylation in plants (2016) (112)
- Maize death acids, 9-lipoxygenase–derived cyclopente(a)nones, display activity as cytotoxic phytoalexins and transcriptional mediators (2015) (107)
- Full-length autonomous transposable elements are preferentially targeted by expression-dependent forms of RNA-directed DNA methylation (2016) (107)
- Histone H2B Deubiquitination Is Required for Transcriptional Activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C and for Proper Control of Flowering in Arabidopsis1[C][W][OA] (2008) (106)
- Release Factor One Is Nonessential in Escherichia coli (2012) (103)
- DNA Methylation: Shared and Divergent Features across Eukaryotes. (2019) (103)
- Epigenetic and epigenomic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2012) (96)
- Stable inheritance of DNA methylation allows creation of epigenotype maps and the study of epiallele inheritance patterns in the absence of genetic variation (2017) (95)
- Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles (2018) (95)
- FRIGIDA-ESSENTIAL 1 interacts genetically with FRIGIDA and FRIGIDA-LIKE 1 to promote the winter-annual habit of Arabidopsis thaliana (2005) (90)
- The DNA binding landscape of the maize AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR family (2018) (84)
- A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution (2020) (84)
- The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae) (2015) (84)
- Diversity of cytosine methylation across the fungal tree of life (2019) (71)
- Unexpected Diversity of Chloroplast Noncoding RNAs as Revealed by Deep Sequencing of the Arabidopsis Transcriptome (2011) (69)
- Covering your bases: inheritance of DNA methylation in plant genomes. (2014) (66)
- Genome-wide redistribution of H3K27me3 is linked to genotoxic stress and defective growth (2015) (66)
- A Comparative Analysis of 5-Azacytidine- and Zebularine-Induced DNA Demethylation (2016) (66)
- Subgenome dominance in an interspecific hybrid, synthetic allopolyploid, and a 140 year old naturally established neo-allopolyploid monkeyflower (2016) (65)
- Single-cell RNA sequencing of developing maize ears facilitates functional analysis and trait candidate gene discovery. (2020) (64)
- DICER-LIKE 1 and DICER-LIKE 3 Redundantly Act to Promote Flowering via Repression of FLOWERING LOCUS C in Arabidopsis thaliana (2007) (58)
- Methylated DNA is over-represented in whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data (2014) (56)
- Base-resolution detection of N4-methylcytosine in genomic DNA using 4mC-Tet-assisted-bisulfite- sequencing (2015) (54)
- Divergent cytosine DNA methylation patterns in single-cell, soybean root hairs. (2017) (54)
- Surveillance of 3′ Noncoding Transcripts Requires FIERY1 and XRN3 in Arabidopsis (2012) (52)
- Chromatin accessibility profiling methods (2021) (51)
- Dnmt1 is essential for egg production and embryo viability in the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (2019) (51)
- Spontaneous epimutations in plants. (2018) (51)
- Brahma Is Required for Proper Expression of the Floral Repressor FLC in Arabidopsis (2011) (50)
- A genome assembly and the somatic genetic and epigenetic mutation rate in a wild long-lived perennial Populus trichocarpa (2019) (48)
- High-throughput approaches for plant epigenomic studies. (2011) (48)
- Crop Epigenomics: Identifying, Unlocking, and Harnessing Cryptic Variation in Crop Genomes. (2015) (47)
- Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences (2019) (47)
- Histone H3 Variant Regulates RNA Polymerase II Transcription Termination and Dual Strand Transcription of siRNA Loci in Trypanosoma brucei (2016) (46)
- Epimutations are associated with CHROMOMETHYLASE 3-induced de novo DNA methylation (2019) (45)
- Stable unmethylated DNA demarcates expressed genes and their cis-regulatory space in plant genomes (2020) (44)
- Monitoring the interplay between transposable element families and DNA methylation in maize (2019) (41)
- The Dnmt3L ADD Domain Controls Cytosine Methylation Establishment during Spermatogenesis (2015) (40)
- Natural variation in DNA methylation homeostasis and the emergence of epialleles (2020) (40)
- TET-mediated epimutagenesis of the Arabidopsis thaliana methylome (2017) (40)
- Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: Their importance, discovery, and future challenges (2021) (39)
- Genomic Distribution of H 3 K 9 me 2 and DNA Methylation in a Maize Genome (2014) (37)
- Specifications of Targeting Heterochromatin Modifications in Plants. (2017) (36)
- Two Putative BIN 2 Substrates Are Nuclear Components of Brassinosteroid Signaling 1 (2002) (34)
- Zebularine treatment is associated with deletion of FT-B1 leading to an increase in spikelet number in bread wheat. (2018) (32)
- Evolutionary and Experimental Loss of Gene Body Methylation and Its Consequence to Gene Expression (2019) (31)
- pENCODE: a plant encyclopedia of DNA elements. (2014) (28)
- Comparative ultrastructure of the cellular components of the unconstricted notochord in the sturgeon and the lungfish (1998) (28)
- Pericentromeric hypomethylation elicits an interferon response in an animal model of ICF syndrome (2018) (26)
- The Gossypium longicalyx Genome as a Resource for Cotton Breeding and Evolution (2020) (25)
- Cell wall composition and digestibility alterations in Brachypodium distachyon achieved through reduced expression of the UDP-arabinopyranose mutase (2015) (24)
- Identification of cis-regulatory elements by chromatin structure. (2018) (23)
- Intragenic Suppression of a Trafficking-Defective Brassinosteroid Receptor Mutant in Arabidopsis (2010) (23)
- DNA Topoisomerase 1α Promotes Transcriptional Silencing of Transposable Elements through DNA Methylation and Histone Lysine 9 Dimethylation in Arabidopsis (2014) (23)
- Epigenomic programming contributes to the genomic drift evolution of the F-Box protein superfamily in Arabidopsis (2013) (23)
- FASTmC: A Suite of Predictive Models for Nonreference-Based Estimations of DNA Methylation (2015) (22)
- Arabidopsis Protein Kinase D6PKL3 Is Involved in the Formation of Distinct Plasma Membrane Aperture Domains on the Pollen Surface[OPEN] (2018) (22)
- Identification of a novel base J binding protein complex involved in RNA polymerase II transcription termination in trypanosomes (2019) (20)
- The Secret Garden—Epigenetic Alleles Underlie Complex Traits (2014) (20)
- Genome-Wide Reinforcement of DNA Methylation Occurs during Somatic Embryogenesis in Soybean (2019) (20)
- Directions for research and training in plant omics: Big Questions and Big Data (2019) (19)
- Histone H1 Limits DNA Methylation in Neurospora crassa (2016) (18)
- Histone H 2 B Deubiquitination Is Required for Transcriptional Activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C and for Proper Control of Flowering in Arabidopsis 1 [ C ] [ W ] [ OA ] (2009) (17)
- The LSH/DDM1 Homolog MUS-30 Is Required for Genome Stability, but Not for DNA Methylation in Neurospora crassa (2016) (17)
- AlphaBeta: computational inference of epimutation rates and spectra from high-throughput DNA methylation data in plants (2019) (15)
- Epigenetic silencing of a multifunctional plant stress regulator (2019) (15)
- Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern (2022) (15)
- Base J represses genes at the end of polycistronic gene clusters in Leishmania major by promoting RNAP II termination (2016) (15)
- Genome-Wide Reinforcement of DNA Methylation Occurs during Somatic Embryogenesis in Soybean. (2019) (14)
- Changes of gene expression but not cytosine methylation are associated with male parental care reflecting behavioural state, social context and individual flexibility (2019) (14)
- EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution (2019) (13)
- Enhanced JBrowse plugins for epigenomics data visualization (2017) (13)
- Epimutations define a fast-ticking molecular clock in plants. (2021) (13)
- Rational development of transformation in Clostridium thermocellum ATCC 27405 via complete methylome analysis and evasion of native restriction–modification systems (2019) (13)
- The Role of VIN3-LIKE Genes in Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Regulation of Flowering (2007) (11)
- A comparative analysis of 5-azacytidine and zebularine induced DNA demethylation (2016) (11)
- Assessing the regulatory potential of transposable elements using chromatin accessibility profiles of maize transposons. (2020) (11)
- Heterochromatin is a quantitative trait associated with spontaneous epiallele formation (2021) (11)
- Multiplex knockout of trichome-regulating MYB duplicates in hybrid poplar using a single gRNA (2022) (10)
- Subsets of Visceral Adipose Tissue Nuclei with Distinct Levels of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine (2016) (10)
- Epigenomic diversification within the genus Lupinus (2017) (9)
- Cis-regulatory elements within TEs can influence expression of nearby maize genes (2020) (9)
- FASTmC: a suite of predictive models for non-reference-based estimations of DNA methylation (2015) (9)
- Single-cell analysis of cis-regulatory elements. (2021) (9)
- More than DNA methylation: does pleiotropy drive the complex pattern of evolution of Dnmt1? (2019) (8)
- A novel requirement for DROSHA in maintenance of mammalian CG methylation (2017) (8)
- Molecular properties of epimutation hotspots (2022) (8)
- IMITATION SWITCH is required for normal chromatin structure and gene repression in PRC2 target domains (2021) (8)
- The essential role of Dnmt1 in gametogenesis in the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus (2020) (7)
- Chromatin accessibility profiling in Neurospora crassa reveals molecular features associated with accessible and inaccessible chromatin (2021) (6)
- A Qualitative Change in the Transcriptome Occurs after the First Cell Cycle and Coincides with Lumen Establishment during MDCKII Cystogenesis (2020) (6)
- Epigenetics in the wild (2015) (6)
- Response to Perspective (2013) (6)
- Gene-regulatory independent functions for insect DNA methylation (2018) (6)
- DNA cytosine hydroxymethylation levels are distinct among non-overlapping classes of peripheral blood leukocytes (2016) (5)
- Leveraging histone modifications to improve genome annotations (2021) (5)
- The Dnmt3L ADD Domain Controls Cytosine Methylation Establishment during Spermatogenesis (2015) (5)
- Genotypic variation of gene expression during the soybean innate immunity response (2014) (5)
- Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana (2019) (5)
- The shocking consequences of hybrid epigenomes (2016) (5)
- R2C2: Improving nanopore read accuracy enables the sequencing of highly-multiplexed full-length single-cell cDNA (2018) (4)
- Decoding the Epigenomes of Herbaceous Plants (2014) (4)
- Firefly genomes illuminate the origin and evolution of bioluminescence (2017) (4)
- Anno genominis XX: 20 years of Arabidopsis genomics. (2020) (4)
- A genome assembly and the somatic genetic and epigenetic mutation rate in a wild long-lived perennial Populus trichocarpa (2020) (4)
- Subgenome Dominance in an Interspeci fi c Hybrid , Synthetic Allopolyploid , and a 140-Year-Old Naturally Established Neo-Allopolyploid Monkey fl ower (2017) (4)
- Loss of the FOXP1 Transcription Factor Leads to Deregulation of B Lymphocyte Development and Function at Multiple Stages (2019) (4)
- Quality control and evaluation of plant epigenomics data (2021) (3)
- Sociality and DNA methylation are not evolutionary dependent (2016) (3)
- Arabidopsis Interactome Mapping Consortium Interactome Map Arabidopsis Evidence for Network Evolution in an (2014) (3)
- Correction: DNA Topoisomerase 1α Promotes Transcriptional Silencing of Transposable Elements through DNA Methylation and Histone Lysine 9 Dimethylation in Arabidopsis (2015) (3)
- Multiplex genome editing in Arabidopsis thaliana using Mb3Cas12a (2021) (3)
- Unusual predominance of maintenance DNA methylation in Spirodela polyrhiza (2020) (3)
- AlphaBeta: computational inference of epimutation rates and spectra from high-throughput DNA methylation data in plants (2020) (3)
- The evolution of DNA methylation and its relationship to sociality in insects (2016) (3)
- Profiling single-cell chromatin accessibility in plants (2021) (2)
- The Nicrophorus vespilloides genome and methylome, a beetle with complex social behavior (2015) (2)
- Simple and accurate transcriptional start site identification using Smar2C2 and examination of conserved promoter features (2022) (2)
- Topical Review on Epigenetics and Chromatin Modifications Epigenetics: Beyond Chromatin Modifications and Complex Genetic Regulation (2014) (1)
- Multiplex knockout of trichome-regulating MYBs in poplar affects light sensitivity and triterpene accumulation (2021) (1)
- Changes Of Gene Expression But Not Cytosine Methylation Are Associated With Behavioural Plasticity Of Parental Care (2017) (1)
- Stability of DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility in structurally diverse maize genomes (2021) (1)
- Friction Anisotropy-Driven Domain Imaging on Exfoliated (2011) (1)
- Identifying transcription factor-DNA interactions using machine learning (2022) (1)
- A combinatorial indexing strategy for epigenomic profiling of plant single cells (2021) (1)
- Constructing Hepitypes: Phasing Local Genotype and DNA Methylation (2013) (1)
- A Qualitative Change in the Transcriptome During MDCKII 3D Epithelial Morphogenesis is Linked to the First Cell Cycle and Intracellular Trafficking (2020) (1)
- Author response: Epimutations are associated with CHROMOMETHYLASE 3-induced de novo DNA methylation (2019) (1)
- Stable inheritance of DNA methylation allows creation of epigenotype maps and the study of epiallele inheritance patterns in the absence of genetic variation (2017) (1)
- TITLE : The evolution of CHROMOMETHYLASES and gene body DNA 1 methylation in plants 2 3 RUNNING TITLE : CMT gene family in plants 4 5 (2016) (1)
- A combinatorial indexing strategy for low-cost epigenomic profiling of plant single cells (2022) (1)
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- 1 The Nicrophorus vespilloides genome and methylome , a beetle with complex social behavior 1 2 (2015) (0)
- Epigenetics in the wild Studies of wild populations of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana have started to reveal how patterns of DNA methylation change in response to the local environment. (2015) (0)
- Choi Graphene Driven Domain Imaging on Exfoliated Monolayer − Friction Anisotropy (2014) (0)
- Subsets of brain neuronal and visceral adipocyte nuclei with high levels of hydroxymethylcytosine (2017) (0)
- Erratum to: The shocking consequences of hybrid epigenomes (2016) (0)
- Chromatin accessibility profiling in Neurospora crassa reveals molecular features associated with accessible and inaccessible chromatin (2021) (0)
- TITLE : The evolution of CHROMOMETHYLTRANSFERASES and gene body 1 DNA methylation in plants 2 3 RUNNING TITLE : CMT gene family in plants 4 5 (2016) (0)
- Author response: Epigenetic silencing of a multifunctional plant stress regulator (2019) (0)
- Smar2C2: A Simple and Efficient Protocol for the Identification of Transcription Start Sites (2023) (0)
- Illumina But With Nanopore (2022) (0)
- A novel requirement for DROSHA in maintenance of mammalian CG methylation (2017) (0)
- Patterns and Heritability of Epiallelic Variation in Glycine max (2012) (0)
- DNMT1 mutant ants develop normally but have disrupted oogenesis. (2023) (0)
- Dnmt1 is essential for egg production and embryo viability in the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus (2019) (0)
- Author response: Firefly genomes illuminate parallel origins of bioluminescence in beetles (2018) (0)
- The evolution of CHROMOMETHYLASES and gene body DNA methylation in plants (2017) (0)
- FAST m C: a suite of predictive models for non-reference-based estimations of 2 (2015) (0)
- Sequencing Illumina libraries at high accuracy on the ONT MinION using R2C2 (2021) (0)
- Integration of ATAC-seq and DAP-seq Data to Uncover Gene Regulatory Networks in Soybean (2017) (0)
- Erratum to: The shocking consequences of hybrid epigenomes (2016) (0)
- TET-mediated epimutagenesis of the Arabidopsis thaliana methylome (2018) (0)
- Comparative Epigenomics: Exploring Patterns of DNA Methylation throughout Flowering Plants (2015) (0)
- The DNA binding landscape of the maize AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR family (2018) (0)
- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of Developing Ears Facilitates Functional Analysis and Trait Candidate Gene Discovery in Maize (2020) (0)
- Diversity of cytosine methylation across the fungal tree of life (2019) (0)
- Author Correction: Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome (2020) (0)
- Genome-wide Evidence of non-Mendelian Modes of Inheritance for DNA Methylation Variants (2013) (0)
- Multiple genes recruited from hormone pathways partition maize diterpenoid defences (2019) (0)
- HuffordLab/NAM-genomes: publication.prerelease (2021) (0)
- 5hmC Distribution in Isolated Visceral Adipose Tissue Nuclei (2016) (0)
- Tansley insight Spontaneous epimutations in plants (2018) (0)
- The critical role of Dmnt1 during spermatogenesis is not predictable, but knockdown does cause pervasive differential transcription (2023) (0)
- The shocking consequences of hybrid epigenomes (2016) (0)
- Enhanced JBrowse plugins for epigenomics data visualization (2018) (0)
- Title : Epigenomic diversification within the genus Lupinus (2017) (0)
- Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on "epigenetics and gene regulation". (2022) (0)
- Full-length autonomous transposable elements are preferentially targeted by expression-dependent forms of RNA-directed DNA methylation (2016) (0)
- Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms (2016) (0)
- Author response: The essential role of Dnmt1 in gametogenesis in the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus (2021) (0)
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