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2025
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Czechia
2025

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Genetics

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National Ranking
4

Molecular Biology

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68
Citations
12532
World Ranking
1539
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Czechia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Czechia Leader Award

Overview

Jiří Macas is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on plant science and molecular biology subfields.

The areas of study for Jiří Macas include plant science, molecular biology, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. Specifically, their work emphasizes topics such as chromosomal and genetic variations, genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant disease resistance and genetics, genetic and environmental crop studies, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, genetic diversity and population structure, and agricultural pest management studies.

Notable recent publications by Jiří Macas include:

  • Global analysis of repetitive DNA from unassembled sequence reads using RepeatExplorer2, 2020, Nature Protocols
  • Repeat-sequence turnover shifts fundamentally in species with large genomes, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The giant diploid faba genome unlocks variation in a global protein crop, 2023, Nature
  • Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution, 2022, Cell
  • Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Diversity of Plant Centromere Architecture, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Jiří Macas has frequently collaborated with several co-authors including:

  • Petr Novák
  • Pavel Neumann
  • Veit Schubert
  • Andrea Koblížková
  • Andreas Houben

Their work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Best Publications

  • RepeatExplorer: a Galaxy-based web server for genome-wide characterization of eukaryotic repetitive elements from next-generation sequence reads.

    Petr Novák;Pavel Neumann;Jiří Pech;Jaroslav Steinhaisl

  • A reference genome for pea provides insight into legume genome evolution

    Jonathan Kreplak;Mohammed Amin Madoui;Petr Cápal;Petr Novák

  • Graph-based clustering and characterization of repetitive sequences in next-generation sequencing data.

    Petr Novák;Pavel Neumann;Jiří Macas

  • Systematic survey of plant LTR-retrotransposons elucidates phylogenetic relationships of their polyprotein domains and provides a reference for element classification

    Pavel Neumann;Petr Novák;Nina Hoštáková;Jiří Macas

  • TAREAN: a computational tool for identification and characterization of satellite DNA from unassembled short reads

    Petr Novák;Laura Ávila Robledillo;Andrea Koblížková;Iva Vrbová

  • Repetitive DNA in the pea ( Pisum sativum L.) genome: comprehensive characterization using 454 sequencing and comparison to soybean and Medicago truncatula

    Jiří Macas;Pavel Neumann;Alice Navrátilová

  • Pea (Pisum sativum L.) in the Genomic Era

    Petr Smýkal;Gregoire Aubert;Judith Burstin;Clarice J. Coyne

  • Global analysis of repetitive DNA from unassembled sequence reads using RepeatExplorer2.

    Petr Novák;Pavel Neumann;Jiří Macas

  • Repeatless and Repeat-Based Centromeres in Potato: Implications for Centromere Evolution

    Zhiyun Gong;Zhiyun Gong;Yufeng Wu;Andrea Koblížková;Giovana A. Torres;Giovana A. Torres

  • Plant centromeric retrotransposons: a structural and cytogenetic perspective

    Pavel Neumann;Alice Navrátilová;Andrea Koblížková;Eduard Kejnovský

  • Loading of Arabidopsis Centromeric Histone CENH3 Occurs Mainly during G2 and Requires the Presence of the Histone Fold Domain

    Inna Lermontova;Veit Schubert;Joerg Fuchs;Sabina Klatte

  • In Depth Characterization of Repetitive DNA in 23 Plant Genomes Reveals Sources of Genome Size Variation in the Legume Tribe Fabeae.

    Jiří Macas;Petr Novák;Jaume Pellicer;Jana Čížková

  • Selfish supernumerary chromosome reveals its origin as a mosaic of host genome and organellar sequences

    Mihaela Maria Martis;Sonja Klemme;Ali Mohammad Banaei-Moghaddam;Frank R. Blattner

  • Analysis of Nuclear DNA Content and Ploidy in Higher Plants

    David W. Galbraith;Georgina M. Lambert;Jiri Macas;Jaroslav Dolezel

  • Next Generation Sequencing Reveals Genome Downsizing in Allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum, Predominantly through the Elimination of Paternally Derived Repetitive DNAs

    Simon Renny-Byfield;Michael Chester;Michael Chester;Ales Kovařík;Steven C. Le Comber

  • Genomic Repeat Abundances Contain Phylogenetic Signal

    Steven Dodsworth;Mark W. Chase;Laura J. Kelly;Ilia J. Leitch

  • Stretching the Rules: Monocentric Chromosomes with Multiple Centromere Domains

    Pavel Neumann;Alice Navrátilová;Elizabeth Schroeder-Reiter;Andrea Koblížková

  • Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Divergent Genome Size Evolution in a Carnivorous Plant Genus

    Giang T. H. Vu;Giang T. H. Vu;Thomas Schmutzer;Fabian Bull;Hieu X. Cao

  • PlantSat: a specialized database for plant satellite repeats

    Jirí Macas;Tibor Mészáros;Marcela Nouzová

  • Significant Expansion of Vicia pannonica Genome Size Mediated by Amplification of a Single Type of Giant Retroelement

    Pavel Neumann;Andrea Koblízková;Alice Navrátilová;Jirí Macas

Frequent Co-Authors

Pavel Neumann
Pavel Neumann Czech Academy of Sciences
Jaroslav Doležel
Jaroslav Doležel Czech Academy of Sciences
Ingo Schubert
Ingo Schubert Leibniz Association
Andreas Houben
Andreas Houben Leibniz Association
Ilia J. Leitch
Ilia J. Leitch Royal Botanic Gardens
Martin A. Lysak
Martin A. Lysak Masaryk University
Andrew R. Leitch
Andrew R. Leitch Queen Mary University of London
Hana Šimková
Hana Šimková Czech Academy of Sciences
Jörg Fuchs
Jörg Fuchs Leibniz Association
Jiming Jiang
Jiming Jiang Michigan State University

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