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Thomas Peterson is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers several subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Surgery. The main topics of study reflected in their work include:

  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Thomas Peterson has frequently published in notable venues such as:

  • Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Genome biology
  • Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

The list of recent publications includes:

  • A Tutorial of EDTA: Extensive De Novo TE Annotator, 2021, Methods in molecular biology
  • Author Correction: Benchmarking transposable element annotation methods for creation of a streamlined, comprehensive pipeline, 2022, Genome biology
  • Complex chromosomal rearrangements induced by transposons in maize, 2022, Genetics
  • Transposon-induced inversions activate gene expression in the maize pericarp, 2021, Genetics
  • Ectopic Expression of a Maize Gene Is Induced by Composite Insertions Generated Through Alternative Transposition, 2020, Genetics

Among frequent co-authors are Tao Zuo, Sharu Paul Sharma, Weijia Su, Dafang Wang, and Peifen Zhang, with collaborations ranging from three to six shared publications with each individual.

Best Publications

  • Benchmarking transposable element annotation methods for creation of a streamlined, comprehensive pipeline

    Shujun Ou;Weija Su;Yi Liao;Kapeel Chougule

  • The myb-homologous P gene controls phlobaphene pigmentation in maize floral organs by directly activating a flavonoid biosynthetic gene subset.

    Erich Grotewold;Bruce J. Drummond;Ben Bowen;Thomas Peterson

  • High frequency targeted mutagenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana using zinc finger nucleases

    Feng Zhang;Morgan L. Maeder;Erica Unger-Wallace;Justin P. Hoshaw

  • Alternatively spliced products of the maize P gene encode proteins with homology to the DNA-binding domain of myb-like transcription factors

    Erich Grotewold;Prasanna Athma;Thomas Peterson

  • Crosstalk between the Circadian Clock and Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis

    Chong Zhang;Qiguang Xie;Ryan G. Anderson;Gina Ng

  • Identification of conserved gene structures and carboxy-terminal motifs in the Myb gene family of Arabidopsis and Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica.

    Cizhong Jiang;Xun Gu;Thomas Peterson

  • Ordered origin of the typical two- and three-repeat Myb genes.

    Cizhong Jiang;Jianying Gu;Surinder Chopra;Xun Gu

  • Molecular Characterization of a Mutable Pigmentation Phenotype and Isolation of the First Active Transposable Element from Sorghum bicolor

    Surinder Chopra;Volker Brendel;Jianbo Zhang;John D. Axtell

  • Towards Precision Medicine: Advances in Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Human Variants

    Thomas A. Peterson;Emily Doughty;Maricel G. Kann

  • Ac induces homologous recombination at the maize P locus.

    Prasanna Athma;T. Peterson

  • Insertional mutagenesis of the maize P gene by intragenic transposition of Ac.

    P Athma;E Grotewold;T Peterson

  • A Segmental Gene Duplication Generated Differentially Expressed myb-Homologous Genes in Maize

    Peifen Zhang;Surinder Chopra;Thomas Peterson

  • Genome Rearrangements by Nonlinear Transposons in Maize

    Jianbo Zhang;Thomas Peterson

  • Isolation and molecular analysis of the maize P locus.

    Christa Lechelt;Thomas Peterson;Alan Laird;Jychian Chen

  • Isolation and characterization of a maize gene encoding chalcone flavonone isomerase

    Erich Grotewold;Thomas Peterson

  • Toward an automatic method for extracting cancer-and other disease-related point mutations from the biomedical literature

    Emily Doughty;Attila Kertesz-Farkas;Olivier Bodenreider;Gary Thompson

  • Regulation of CDC9, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene that encodes DNA ligase.

    Thomas A. Peterson;Louise Prakash;Satya Prakash;Mary Ann Osley

  • TIR-Learner, a New Ensemble Method for TIR Transposable Element Annotation, Provides Evidence for Abundant New Transposable Elements in the Maize Genome.

    Weijia Su;Xun Gu;Thomas Peterson

  • Transgene-induced silencing identifies sequences involved in the establishment of paramutation of the maize p1 gene.

    Lyudmila V. Sidorenko;Thomas Peterson

  • Plant Transposable Elements

    Thomas Peterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Grotewold
Erich Grotewold Michigan State University
Atul J. Butte
Atul J. Butte University of California, San Francisco
Steven I. Reed
Steven I. Reed Scripps Research Institute
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Michael D. McMullen
Michael D. McMullen University of Missouri
Xun Gu
Xun Gu Iowa State University
James A. Birchler
James A. Birchler University of Missouri
Cizhong Jiang
Cizhong Jiang Tongji University
Dan Nettleton
Dan Nettleton Iowa State University

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