Publications

The most complete list of Hannes’ publication is available on Google Scholar.
Below, there is a list of selected papers, grouped by topic.

Methods

randPedPCA

Lee H, Craddock RF, Gorjanc G, & Becher, H (2025).
randPedPCA: Rapid approximation of principal components from large pedigrees.
Genetics Selection Evolution, 57(1), 46.

Tetmer

Becher H, Brown MR, Powell G, Metherell C, Riddiford NJ & Twyford AD (2020)
Maintenance of species differences in closely related tetraploid parasitic uphrasia (Orobanchaceae) on an isolated island
Plant Communications 1(5), 100105.

vagrantDNA

Becher H, & Nichols R A (2023)
Assembly-free quantification of vagrant DNA inserts
Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(5), 1002–1013.

Molecular evolution/adaptation

Becher H & Charlesworth B (2025)
A model of Hill-Robertson interference caused by purifying selection in a nonrecombining genome
Genetics, 230(1), iyaf048.

Becher H, Jackson BC & Charlesworth B (2020)
Patterns of genetic variability in genomic regions with low rates of recombination
Current Biology 30(1), 94–100.

Wang W, Wan T, Becher H, Kuderová A, Leitch IJ, Garcia S, Leitch A & Kovarik A (2018)
Remarkable variation of ribosomal DNA organisation and copy number in gnetophytes, a distinct lineage of gymnosperms
Annals of Botany 123(5), 767–781.

Wang W, Ma L, Becher H, Garcia S, Kovaříkova A, Leitch IJ, Leitch AR & Kovařík A (2016)
Astonishing 35S rDNA diversity in the gymnosperm species Cycas revoluta Thunb.
Chromosoma 125(4), 683–699.

Demographic inference

Brown MR, Becher H, Williams S & Twyford AD (2022)
Is there hybridization between diploid and tetraploid Euphrasia in a secondary contact zone?
American Journal of Botany 110(1):e16100.

Johri P, Riall K, Becher H, Excoffier L, Charlesworth B & Jensen JD (2021)
The Impact of Purifying and Background Selection on the Inference of Population History: Problems and Prospects
Molecular Biology and Evolution 38(7), 2986–3003.

K-mers

Becher H, Sampson J & Twyford AD (2022)
Measuring the invisible – The sequences causal of genome size differences in eyebrights (Euphrasia) revealed by k-mers
Front. Plant Sci. 13:818410.

Becher H, Powell RF, Brown MR, Metherell C, Pellicer J, Leitch IJ & Twyford AD (2021)
The nature of intraspecific and interspecific genome size variation in taxonomically complex eyebrights
Annals of Botany 128(5), 639–651.

Becher H, Brown MR, Powell G, Metherell C, Riddiford NJ & Twyford AD (2020)
Maintenance of species differences in closely related tetraploid parasitic Euphrasia (Orobanchaceae) on an isolated island
Plant Communications 1(5), 100105.

Phylogenetics and cytogenetics

Tkach N, Nobis M, Schneider J, Becher H, Winterfeld G, Jacobs SWL & Röser M (2021)
Molecular phylogenetics and micromorphology of Australasian Stipeae (Poaceae, subfamily Pooideae), and the interrelation of whole-genome duplication and evolutionary radiations in this grass tribe
Front. Plant Sci. 11:630788.

Winterfeld G, Becher H, Voshell S & Hilu K (2018)
Karyotype evolution in Phalaris (Poaceae): The role of reductional dysploidy, polyploidy and chromosome alteration in a wide-spread and diverse genus
PLOS ONE, 13(2), e0192869. (correction here)

Winterfeld G, Schneider J, Becher H, Dickie J & Röser M (2015)
Karyosystematics of the Australasian stipoid grass Austrostipa and related genera: chromosome sizes, ploidy, chromosome base numbers, and phylogeny
Australian Systematic Botany, 28(3), 145–159.

Becher H, Ma L, Kelly LJ, Kovařík A, Leitch IJ & Leitch AR (2014)
Endogenous pararetrovirus sequences associated with 24 nt small RNAs at the centromeres of Fritillaria imperialis L. (Liliaceae), a species with a giant genome
The Plant Journal 80, 823–833.