List of Publications


Rossi AC, Laborne AM, Barrios-Leal DY, Manfrin MH, Kuhn GCS (2025). Sequenced genomes and chromosome mapping illuminate key aspects of satellite DNA biology in Drosophila gouveai and D. borborema (buzzatii cluster, repleta group). Genetics and Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-4685

Laborne AM, Barrios-Leal DY, Heslop-Harrison JS, Manfrin MH, Kuhn GCS (2024). Genome location, evolution and centromeric contribution of satellite DNAs shared between the two closely related species Drosophila serido and D. antonietae (repleta group, buzzatii cluster). Chromosoma. 2024;134(1):1.

Silva BSML, Picorelli ACR, Kuhn GCS (2023). In Silico identification and characterization of satellite DNAs in 23 Drosophila species from the montium group. Genes (Basel). 14(2):300. doi: 10.3390/genes14020300.

Santos-Silva T, Lopes CFB, Gumarăes JDS, Valer FB, Kuhn GCS, Romero TRL, Naves LA, Duarte IDG (2022) Classical analgesic drugs modulate nociceptive-like escape behavior in Drosophila melanogaster larvae. Research Results in Pharmacology 8(4): 185–196. https://doi.org/10.3897/rrpharmacology.8.91390

Heringer P, Kuhn GCS (2022). Multiple horizontal transfers of a Helitron transposon associated with a parasitoid wasp. Mob DNA. 13(1):20. doi: 10.1186/s13100-022-00278-y.

Heringer P, Kuhn GCS (2022). Pif1 Helicases and the Evidence for a Prokaryotic Origin of Helitrons. Mol Biol Evol. 39(1):msab334. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab334.

Kuhn GCS, Heringer P, Dias GB (2021). Structure, organization, and evolution of satellite DNAs: Insights from the Drosophila repleta and D. virilis species groups. Prog Mol Subcell Biol. 60:27-56. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-74889-0_2. 

Valeri MP, Dias GB, do Espírito Santo AA, Moreira CN, Yonenaga-Yassuda Y, Sommer IB, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M (2021). First Description of a Satellite DNA in Manatees' Centromeric Regions. Front Genet. 12:694866. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.694866.

Dias CAR, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M, Santos Júnior JED, Santos FR, Pinto CM, Perini FA (2021). Identification and characterization of repetitive DNA in the genus Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 (Didelphimorphia, Didelphidae) and the use of satellite DNAs as phylogenetic markers. Genet Mol Biol. 44(2):e20200384. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2020-0384.

Araújo NP, Sena RS, Bonvicino CR, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M (2021). SINE-B1 Distribution and Chromosome Rearrangements in the South American Proechimys gr. goeldii (Echimyidae, Rodentia). Cytogenet Genome Res. 161(1-2):6-13. doi: 10.1159/000513106.

Sena RS, Heringer P, Valeri MP, Pereira VS, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M (2020). Identification and characterization of satellite DNAs in two-toed sloths of the genus Choloepus (Megalonychidae, Xenarthra). Sci Rep. 10(1):19202. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76199-8.

Nascimento AML, Silva BSML, Svartman M, Kuhn GCS (2020). Tracking a recent horizontal transfer event: The P-element reaches Brazilian populations of Drosophila simulans. Genet Mol Biol. 43(2):e20190342. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2019-0342.

Valeri MP, Dias GB, Moreira CN, Yonenaga-Yassuda Y, Stanyon R, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M (2020). Characterization of Satellite DNAs in Squirrel Monkeys genus Saimiri (Cebidae, Platyrrhini). Sci Rep. 2020 May 8;10(1):7783. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64620-1. Erratum in: Sci Rep. 2020 Aug 6;10(1):13501.

Silva BSML, Heringer P, Dias GB, Svartman M, Kuhn GCS (2019). De novo identification of satellite DNAs in the sequenced genomes of Drosophila virilis and D. americana using the RepeatExplorer and TAREAN pipelines. PLoS One. 14(12):e0223466. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223466.

Heringer P, Kuhn GCS (2018). Exploring the Remote Ties between Helitron Transposases and Other Rolling-Circle Replication Proteins. Int J Mol Sci.  9;19(10). pii: E3079. doi: 10.3390/ijms19103079.

Teixeira JR, Dias GB, Svartman M, Ruiz. A, Kuhn GCS (2018). Concurrent Duplication of Drosophila Cid and Cenp-C Genes Resulted in Accelerated Evolution and Male Germline-Biased Expression of the New Copies. J. Mol. Evol. 86(6) 353–364.

Valeri MP, Dias GB, Pereira VS, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M. (2018). An eutherian intronic sequence gave rise to a major satellite DNA in Platyrrhini. Biology Letters 14(1). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0686.

Heringer P, Dias GB, Kuhn GCS. (2017). A Horizontally Transferred Autonomous Helitron Became a Full Polydnavirus Segment in Cotesia vestalis. G3 (Bethesda). doi: 10.1534/g3.117.300280.

de Lima L. Svartman M, Kuhn G. (2017). Dissecting the Satellite DNA Landscape in Three Cactophilic Drosophila Sequenced Genomes. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics, 7(8) 2831-2843. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.117.042093.

Palacios-Gimenez O , Dias GB, de lima LG, Kuhn GCS, Ramos E, Martins C, Cabral-de-Mello D. (2017). High-throughput analysis of the satellitome revealed enormous diversity of satellite dnas in the neo-y chromosome of the cricket Eneoptera surinamensis. Scientific Reports 7(1)6422. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-06822-8.

Araújo NP, de lima L, Dias GB, Kuhn GCS, de Melo AL, Yonenaga-Yassuda Y, Stanyon R, Svartman M. (2017). Identification and characterization of a subtelomeric satellite DNA in Callitrichini monkeys. DNA RESEARCH, 24(4): 377-385.

Araújo NP, Kuhn GCS, Vieira FN, Morcatty TQ, Paglia AP, Svartman M. (2017). Comparative Genomic In Situ Hybridization and the Possible Role of Retroelements in the Karyotypic Evolution of Three Akodontini Species. Int. J. Genomics. doi: 10.1155/2017/5935380.

Araújo NP, Dias GB, Amaro BD, Kuhn GCS, Svartman M (2016). The complete mitochondrial genomes of two Atlantic spiny rats, genus Trinomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae), from low-pass shotgun sequencing. Gene Reports (5)18-22. doi: 10.1016/j.genrep.2016.08.003.
Dias BB, Heringer P, Kuhn GCS (2016). Helitrons in Drosophila: chromatin modulation and tandem insertions. Mobile Genetic Elements doi: 10.1080/2159256X.2016.1154638

Dias BB, Heringer P, Svartman M, Kuhn GCS (2015). Helitrons shaping the genomic architecture of Drosophila: enrichment of DINE-TR1 in α and β-heterochromatin, satellite DNA emergence and piRNA expression. Chromosome Res doi:10.1007/s10577-015-9480-x

Kuhn GCS (2015). Satellite DNA transcripts have diverse biological roles in Drosophila. Heredity. doi:10.1038/ddy.2015.12

Guillén Y, Rius N, Delprat A, Williford A, Muyas F, Puig M, Casillas S, Rŕmia M, Egea R, Negre B, Mir N, Camps J, Moncunill V, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Cabrero J, de Lima LG, Dias GB, Ruiz JC,  Kapusta A, Garcia-Mas J, Gut M, Gut IG, Torrents D,  Camacho JPM, Kuhn GCS, Feschotte C, Clark AG, Betrán E, Barbadilla A, Ruiz A. (2015). Genomics of ecological adaptation in cactophilic Drosophila.  Genome Biol Evol 7(1): 349-366.

Dias GB, Svartman M, Delprat A, Ruiz A, Kuhn GCS (2014). Tetris is a foldback transposon that provided the building blocks for an emerging satellite DNA of Drosophila virilis. Genome Biol Evol 6(6):1302-1313. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu108

Kuhn GCS, Kuettler H, Moreira-Filho O, Heslop-Harrison JS (2012). The 1.688 repetitive DNA of Drosophila: Concerted evolution at different genomic scales and association with genes. Mol Biol Evol 29(1): 7-11  doi:10.1093/molbev/msr173.

Lui RL, Blanco DR, Margarido VP, Kuhn GC, Gomes VN, Prioli AJ, Moreira-Filho O. (2012). A recent transposition of river involving Paraná and Săo Francisco basins: effects on the genetic variability and structure of the neotropical fish Parauchenipterus galeatus (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae). Mitochondrial DNA23(5):388-95. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2012.690747.

Kuhn GCS, Heslop-Harrison JS (2011). Characterization and genomic organization of PERI, a repetitive DNA in the Drosophila buzzatii cluster related to DINE-1 transposable elements and highly abundant in the sex chromosomes. Cytogenet Genome Res 132: 79-88.
Kuhn GCS, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS (2010). The non-regular orbit: Three satellite DNAs in Drosophila martensis (buzzatii complex, repleta group) followed three different evolutionary pathways. Mol Genet Genomics 284: 251-262.
Kuhn GCS (2010). Centromeres: Structure and Function (Book Review). Annals of Botany 105: IX-XI.
Kuhn GCS, Teo CH. Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS (2009). Evolutionary dynamics and sites of illegitimate recombination revealed in the interspersion and sequence junctions of two nonhomologous satellite DNAs in Drosophila species. Heredity 102: 453-464.
Kuhn GCS, Sene FM, Moreira-Filho O, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS (2008). Sequence analysis, chromosomal distribution and long-range organization show that rapid turnover of new and old pBuM satellite DNA repeats leads to different patterns of variation in seven species of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster. Chromosome Res 16(2): 307-324.
Kuhn GCS, Franco, FF, Manfrin MH, Moreira-Filho O, Sene FM (2007). Low rates of homogenization of the DBC-150 satellite DNA family restricted to a single pair of microchromosomes in species from the Drosophila buzzatii cluster. Chromosome Res 15(4): 457-470.
Franco FF, Kuhn GCS, Sene FM, Manfrin MH (2006). Conservation of pBuM-2 satellite DNA sequences in isolated populations of Drosophila gouveai from Brazil. Genetica 128(1-3): 287-95.
Kuhn GCS, Sene FM (2005). Evolutionary turnover of two pBuM satellite DNA subfamilies in the Drosophila buzzatii species cluster (repleta group): from alpha to alpha/beta arrays. Gene 349: 77-85.
Kuhn GCS, Sene FM (2004). Characterisation and interpopulation variability of a complex HpaI satellite DNA of Drosophila seriema (repleta group). Genetica 121(3): 241-249.
Kuhn GCS, Franco FF, Silva Jr WA, Rossi NMM, Sene FM (2003). On the pBuM189 satDNA variability in D. buzzatii populations in South-America. Hereditas 139: 161-166.
Ruiz A, Cassian A, Kuhn GCS, Alves MAR, Sene FM (2000). The Drosophila serido speciation puzzle: putting new pieces together. Genetica 108: 217-227.
Costa CTA, Kuhn GCS, Sene FM (2000). Low courtship song variation in south and southeastern brazilian populations of Drosophila meridionalis (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Revta Brasil Biol 60(1): 53-61.
Kuhn GCS, Bollgönn S, Sperlich D, Bachmann L (1999). Characterization of a species-specific satellite DNA of Drosophila buzzatii. J Zool Syst Evol Res 37: 109-112.
Kuhn GCS, Ruiz A, Alves MAR, Sene FM (1996). The metaphase and polytene chromosomes of Drosophila seriema (repleta group; mulleri subgroup). Brazilian J Genetics 19: 209-216.