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Arabidopsis Genome Initiative Contributors

Three groups contributed to the preparation of the overall Arabidopsis manuscript that appears in the December 14, 2000 issue of Nature. The Whole-Genome Analysis group completed all genome-wide analyses. The Genome Sequencing groups, arranged here in order of sequence contribution, sequenced and annotated assigned chromosomal regions. The Contributing Authors were selected to comment on specific features of the genome.

Whole-Genome Analysis Group

Klaus Mayer1, Owen White2, Michael Bevan3, K. Lemcke1, Todd H. Creasy2, C. Bielke1, Brian Haas2, D. Haase1, Rama Maiti2, S. Rudd1, Jeremy Peterson2, H. Schoof1, D. Frishman1, B. Morgenstern1, P. Zaccaria1, Maria Ermolaeva2, Mihaela Pertea2, Natalia Volfovsky2, Dongying Wu2, Todd M. Lowe4, Steven L. Salzberg2and H. W. Mewes1.

1) GSF-Forschungszentrum f. Umwelt u. Gesundheit, Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences am Max-Planck-Institut f. Biochemie, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152, Germany

2) The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Centre Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

3) Molecular Genetics Dept, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK

4) Dept Genetics, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford CA 94305-5120 USA

Genome Sequencing Groups

Samir Kaul, Hean L. Koo, Jennifer Jenkins, Michael Rizzo, Timothy Rooney, Luke J. Tallon, Tamara Feldblyum, William Nierman, Maria-Ines Benito, Xiaoying Lin, Christopher D. Town, J. Craig Venter, and Claire M. Fraser
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Centre Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

Satoshi Tabata, Yasukazu Nakamura, Takakazu Kaneko, Shusei Sato, Erika Asamizu, Tomohiko Kato, Hirokazu Kotani, Shigemi Sasamoto.
Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 1532-3 Yana, Kisarazu, Chiba 292, Japan

M. Salanoubat1, N. Choisne1, M. Rieger2, W. Ansorge3, M. Unseld4, B. Fartmann5, G. Valle6, F. Artiguenave1, J. Weissenbach1, F. Quetier1

Joseph R. Ecker^$!, Athanasios Theologis^*, Nancy A. Federspiel^#**, Curtis J. Palm#, Brian I. Osborne*, Paul Shinn$, Aaron B. Conway#, Valentina S. Vysotskaia*, Ken Dewar$ , Lane Conn#, Catherine A. Lenz*, Christopher J. Kim$ Nancy F. Hansen#, Shirley X. Liu*, Eugen Buehler$, Hootan Altafi#, Hitomi Sakano*, Patrick Dunn$ ,Bao Lam#, Paul K. Pham*, Qimin Chao$, Michelle Nguyen#, Guixia Yu*, Huaming Chen$, Audrey Southwick#,Jeong Mi Lee*, Molly Miranda#,Mitsue J.Toriumi*, and Ronald W.Davis#
#Stanford Genome Technology Center, 855 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA.
$Plant Sciences Institute, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
*Plant Gene Expression Center/USDA-U.C.Berkeley, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710 USA.
^ These authors have made equal contibutions
! Present address: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
** Present address: Exelixis, Inc., 170 Harborway, P.O. Box 511, South San Francisco, CA 94083-0511 USA

R. Wilson, M. Marra, M. Sekhon, L. Hillier, K. Pepin, J. Murray, D. Johnson, Neilay Dedhia, Larry Parnell, Lidia Gnoj, Kristina Habermann, Raymond Preston, Emily Huang, Lori Spiegel, Ellson Chen, Melissa de la Bastide, W. Richard McCombie, Robert Martienssen
CWU Consortium
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University, School of Medicine, 4444 Forest Park Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108 USA Lita Annenberg Hazen Genome Center and Plant Biology Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA

Contributing Authors

Comparative analysis of the genomes of A. thaliana accessions
S. Rounsley, D.Bush, S. Subramaniam, I.Levin, and S.Norris.
Cereon Genomics LLC, 45 Sidney St, Cambridge MA, 02139, USA

Comparative analysis of the genomes of A. thaliana and other genera
R.Schmidt, A. Acarkan and I Bancroft1
Max-Delbrück-Laboratorium in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany
1. Brassicas and Oilseeds Research Dept, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UJ, UK

Integration of the three genomes in the plant cell: the extent of protein and nucleic acid traffic between nucleus, plastids and mitochondria
F. Quetier, A. Brennicke1 and J. A. Eisen2
Genoscope, Centre Nationale de Sequencage, 2 rue Gaston Cremieux, CP 5706, 91057 Evry Cedex, France
1. Molekulare Botanik, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
2. The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Centre Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

Transposable elements.
T. Bureau, B.-A. Legault, Q.-H. Le, N. Agrawal , Z. Yu and R. Marteinssen1
McGill University, Dept of Biology, 1205 rue Dr. Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1 Canada.
1. Plant Biology Group, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 USA

rDNA, Telomeres and Centromeres
G. P. Copenhaver, S. Luo, C. S. Pikaard1, and D. Preuss
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago, 1103 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL USA,
1. Biology Department, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 , USA

Membrane Transport
I Paulsen and M. Sussman1
The Institute for Genome Research, 9712 Medical Centre Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
1. University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall, Madison WI 53706, USA

DNA Repair and Recombination
A.B. Britt and J.A. Eisen
Section of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis CA 95616, USA
1. The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Centre Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

Gene regulation
D. A. Selinger, R. Pandey, D. W. Mount*, V. L. Chandler, R. A. Jorgensen, C. Pikaard1, and M. Bevan2
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, 303 Forbes Hall, and. *Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
1. 1. Biology Department, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 , USA.
2. Molecular Genetics Dept, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UJ, UK.

Cellular organisation
G. Juergens
Entwicklungsgenetik, ZMBP-Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, auf der Morgenstelle 1, Tuebingen D-72076, Germany

Development
E.M. Meyerowitz
Division of Biology, California Institute of Biology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Signal Transduction
J. R. Ecker and A. Theologis1
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
1. Plant Gene Expression Center/USDA-U.C.Berkeley, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710 USA

Recognition of and response to pathogens
J. Dangl & J.D.G. Jones1
Biology Dept, Coker Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
1. Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UJ, UK

Photomorphogenesis and Photosynthesis
M. Chen and J.Chory
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Rd,La Jolla, CA 92037,USA

Metabolism
C. Somerville
Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford CA 94305, USA

See also: List of Arabidopsis links.