Back-spliced RNA from retrotransposon binds to centromere and regulates centromeric chromatin loops in maize

• Yalin Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yalin Liu, Handong Su

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Handong Su ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yalin Liu, Handong Su

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jing Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yang Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Chao Feng,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Fangpu Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fphan@genetics.ac.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-3575

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