Keeney S, Kleckner N. Covalent protein-DNA complexes at the 5' strand termini of meiosis-specific double-strand breaks in yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1995;92:11274-11278.

Keeney S, Kleckner N. Communication between homologous chromosomes: genetic alterations at a nuclease-hypersensitive site can alter mitotic chromatin structure at that site both in cis and in trans. Genes Cells. 1996;1:475-489.

Keeney S, Giroux CN, Kleckner N. Meiosis-specific DNA double-strand breaks are catalyzed by Spo11, a member of a widely conserved protein family. Cell. 1997;88:375-384.

Keeney S, Baudat F, Angeles M, Zhou ZH, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Manova K, Jasin M. A mouse homolog of the S. cerevisiae meiotic recombination DNA transesterase Spo11p. Genomics. 1999;61:170-182.

Baudat F, Manova K, Yuen JP, Jasin M, Keeney S. 2000 Chromosome synapsis defects and sexually dimorphic meiotic progression in mice lacking Spo11. Mol Cell. 2000;6;989-998.

Baudat F, Keeney S. 2001 Meiotic recombination: Making and breaking go hand in hand. Curr Biol. 2001;11:R45-R48.

Keeney S. 2001 Mechanism and control of meiotic recombination initiation. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2001;52;1-53.

Kee K, Keeney S. 2002 Functional interactions between SPO11 and REC102 during initiation of meiotic recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2002;160;111-122.

Klein U, Esposito G, Baudat F, Keeney S, Jasin M. 2002 Mice deficient for the type II topoisomerase-like DNA transesterase Spo11 show normal immunoglobulin somatic hypermutation and class switching. Eur J Immunol. 2002;32;316-321.

Diaz RL, Alcid AD, Berger JM, Keeney S. 2002 Identification of residues in yeast Spo11p critical for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation. Mol Cell Biol. 2002;22:1106-1115.

Martini EM, Keeney S, Osley MA. 2002 A role for histone H2B during repair of UV-induced DNA damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2002;160:1375-1387.

Martini E, Keeney S. 2002 Sex and the single (double-strand) break. Mol Cell. 2002;9:700-702.

Arora C, Kee K, Maleki S, Keeney S. 2004 Antiviral protein Ski8 is a direct partner of Spo11 in meiotic DNA break formation, independent of its cytoplasmic role in RNA metabolism. Mol Cell. 2004;13:549-559.

Henderson KA, Keeney S. Tying synaptonemal complex initiation to the formation and programmed repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2004;101:4519-4524.

Kee K, Protacio RU, Arora C, Keeney S. Spatial organization and dynamics of the association of Rec102 and Rec104 with meiotic chromosomes. EMBO J. 2004;23:1815-1824.

Kauppi L, Jeffreys AJ, and Keeney S (2004) Where the crossovers are: Recombination distributions in mammals. Nature Rev. Genet. 5, 413-424.

Maleki S, and Keeney S (2004) Modifying histones and initiating meiotic recombination: New answers to an old question. (Preview) Cell 118, 404-406.

Di Giacomo M, Barchi M, Baudat F, Edelmann W, Keeney S, and Jasin M (2005) Distinct DNA damage-dependent and independent responses drive the loss of oocytes in recombination-defective mouse mutants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 737-742.

Okada T, and Keeney S (2005) Homologous recombination: Needing to have my say. (Dispatch) Curr. Biol.15, R200-R202.

Ahn S-H, Henderson KA, Keeney S, and Allis CD (2005) H2B (Ser10) phosphorylation is induced during apoptosis and meiosis in S. cerevisiae. Cell Cycle 4, 780-783.

Barchi M, Mahadevaiah S, Di Giacomo M, Baudat F, de Rooij DG, Burgoyne PS, Jasin M, and Keeney S (2005). Surveillance of different recombination defects in mouse spermatocytes yields distinct responses despite elimination at an identical developmental stage. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25, 7203-7215.

Neale MJ, Pan J, and Keeney S (2005) Endonucleolytic processing of covalent protein-linked DNA double-strand breaks. Nature 436, 1053-1057.

Henderson KA and Keeney S (2005) Synaptonemal complex formation: Where does it start? Bioessays 27, 995-998.

Henderson K, Kee K, Maleki S, Santini PA, and Keeney S (2006) Cyclin-dependent kinase directly regulates initiation of meiotic recombination. Cell 125, 1321-1332.

Neale MJ and Keeney S (2006) Clarifying the mechanics of DNA strand exchange in meiotic recombination. (Invited review). Nature 442: 153-158.

Martini E, Diaz RL, Hunter N, and Keeney S (2006). Crossover homeostasis in yeast meiosis. Cell 126: 285-295.

Keeney S and Neale MJ (2006) Initiation of meiotic recombination by formation of DNA double-strand breaks: mechanism and regulation. (Meeting proceedings). Biochem. Soc. Trans., 34, 523-525.

Liebe B, Pethukhova G, Barchi M, Bellani M, Braselmann H, Nakano T, Pandita MTK, Jasin M, Fornace A, Meistrich ML, Baarends WM, Schimenti J, de Lange T, Keeney S, Camerini-Otero RD, and Scherthan H (2006). Mutations that affect meiosis in male mice influence the dynamics of the mid-preleptotene and bouquet stages. Exp. Cell Res. 312, 3768-3781.

Keeney S (2007) Spo11 and the formation of DNA double-strand breaks in meiosis. In Genome Dynamics and Stability, vol. 2, “Recombination and Meiosis: Crossing Over and Disjunction.” R. Egel and D.-H. Lankenau, Eds., Springer, Berlin, pp. 81-123.

Maleki S, Neale MJ, Arora C, Henderson KA, and Keeney S (2007) Interactions between Mei4, Rec114, and other proteins required for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Chromosoma 116, 471-486.

Kauppi L, Jasin M, and Keeney S (2007) Meiotic crossover hotspots contained in haplotype block boundaries of the mouse genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 13396-13401.

Pan J and Keeney S (2007) Molecular cartography: Mapping the landscape of meiotic recombination. (Invited primer.) PLoS Biology 5, 2775-2777.

Murakami H and Keeney S (2008) Regulating the formation of DNA double-strand breaks in meiosis. (Perspective article.) Genes Dev. 22, 286-292.

Barchi M, Roig I, Cole F, Di Giacomo M, de Rooij DG, Keeney S, and Jasin M (2008) ATM promotes the obligate XY crossover and both crossover control and chromosome axis integrity on autosomes. PLoS Genet. 4, e1000076.

Roig I and Keeney S (2008) Probing meiotic recombination decisions (preview). Dev. Cell 15, 331-332.

Kniewel R and Keeney S (2009) Histone methylation sets the stage for meiotic DNA breaks (Minireview). EMBO J. 28, 81-83.

Murakami H, Borde V, Nicolas A, and Keeney S (2009) Gel electrophoresis assays for analyzing DNA double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at various spatial resolutions. Methods Mol. Biol. 557, 117-142.

Neale MJ and Keeney S (2009) End-labeling and analysis of Spo11-oligonucleotide complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Methods Mol. Biol. 557, 183-195.

Pan J and Keeney S (2009) Detection of SPO11-oligonucleotide complexes from mouse testes. Methods Mol. Biol. 557, 197-207.

Keeney S (Editor) (2009) Meiosis, Volume 1, Molecular and Genetic Methods. Vol. 557 in the Methods in Molecular Biology series, Humana Press, New York.

Keeney S (Editor) (2009) Meiosis, Volume 2, Cytological Methods. Vol. 558 in the Methods in Molecular Biology series, Humana Press, New York.

Thacker D and Keeney S (2009) PCH'ing together an understanding of crossover control (minireview). PLoS Genet. 5, e1000576.

Wojtasz L, Daniel K, Roig I, Bolcun-Filas E, Xu H, Boonsanay V, Eckmann CR, Cooke HJ, Jasin M, Keeney S, McKay MJ, and Toth A (2009) Mouse HORMAD1 and HORMAD2, two conserved meiotic chromosomal proteins, are depleted from synapsed chromosome axes with the help of TRIP13 AAA-ATPase. PLoS Genet. 5, e1000702.

Kidane D, Jonason AS, Gorton TS, Mihaylov I, Pan J, Keeney S, de Rooij DG, Ashley T, Keh A, Liu Y, Banerjee U, Zelterman D, and Sweasy JB (2010) DNA polymerase beta is critical for mouse meiotic synapsis. EMBO J. 29, 410-3423.

Sasaki M, Lange J, and Keeney S (2010) Genome destabilization by homologous recombination in the germline. Nature Rev. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11, 182-195.

Cole F, Keeney S, and Jasin M (2010) Evolutionary conservation of meiotic DSB proteins: More than just Spo11. Genes Dev. 24, 1201-1207.

Roig I, Dowdle JA, Toth A, de Rooij DG, Jasin M, and Keeney S (2010) Mouse TRIP13/PCH2 is required for recombination and normal higher-order chromosome structure during meiosis. PLoS Genet. 6, e1001062.

Cole F, Keeney S, and Jasin M (2010) Comprehensive, fine-scale dissection of homologous recombination outcomes at a hotspot in mouse meiosis. Mol. Cell 39, 700-710.

Kauppi L, Barchi M, Baudat F, Romanienko PJ, Keeney S, and Jasin M (2011) Distinct properties of the XY pseudoautosomal region crucial for male meiosis. Science 331, 916-920.

Dray E, Dunlop MH, Kauppi L, San Filippo J, Wiese C, Tsai M-S, Begovic S, Schild D, Jasin M, Keeney S, Sung P (2011) Molecular basis for enhancement of the meiotic DMC1 recombinase by RAD51AP1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3560-3565.

Pan J, Sasaki M, Kniewel R, Murakami H, Blitzblau HG, Tischfield ST, Zhu X, Neale MJ, Jasin M, Socci ND, Hochwagen A, Keeney S (2011) A hierarchical combination of factors shapes the genome-wide topography of yeast meiotic recombination initiation. Cell 144, 719-731.