For a full list of publications see google scholar.

16. Liu P, Cuerda-Gil D, Shahid S, Slotkin RK (2022) The epigenetic control of the transposable element lifecycle in plant genomes and beyond. Annual Review of Genetics.

15. Shahid S, Slotkin RK (2020) The current revolution in transposable element biology enabled by long reads Current Opinion in Plant Biology 54, 49-56.

14. Yates-Stewart AD, Daron J, Wijeratne S, Shahid S, Edgington HA, Slotkin RK, Michel A (2020) Soybean aphids adapted to host-plant resistance by down regulating putative effectors and up regulating transposable elements. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 121,103363.

13. Yang Z, Wafula EK, Kim G, Shahid S, McNeal JR, Ralph PE, Timilsena PR, Yu WB, Kelly EA, Zhang H, Person TN (2019) Convergent horizontal gene transfer and cross-talk of mobile nucleic acids in parasitic plants. Nature plants 5(9), 991-1001.

12. Choudury S, Shahid S, Cuerda-Gil D, Panda K, Cullen A, Ashraf QUA, Sigman MJ, McCue AD, Slotkin RK (2019) The RNA export factor ALY1 enables genome-wide RNA-directed DNA methylation. The Plant Cell 31(4), 759-774.

11. Shahid S, Kim G, Johnson NR, Wafula EK, Wang F, Coruh C, Bernal-Galeano V, Phifer T, dePamphilis CW, Westwood JH and Axtell MJ (2018) MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature 553, 82-85.

Highlighted in NCRI by German Martinez, Kirsten Krause, in Molecular plant by Jianqiang Wu, in Nature Reviews Genetics by Michelle Trenkmann.

10. Islam MS et al. (including Shahid S and Alam M) (2017) Comparative genomics of two jute species and insight into fiber biogenesis. Nature plants 3, 16223.

9. Shahid S*, Begum R*, Razzaque S, Jesmin, Seraj ZI (2016) Variability in amylose content of Bangladeshi rice cultivars due to unique SNPs in Waxy allele. Journal of Cereal Science 71, 1-9. * Equal contribution

8. Coruh C, Cho SH, Shahid S, Liu Q, Wierzbicki A, Axtell MJ (2015) Comprehensive annotation of Physcomitrella patens small RNA loci reveals that the heterochromatic short interfering RNA pathway Is largely conserved in land plants. The Plant Cell 27(8), 2148–2162.

7. Kwok CK, Ding Y, Shahid S, Assmann SM, Bevilacqua PC (2015) A stable RNA G-quadruplex within the 5′-UTR of Arabidopsis thaliana ATR mRNA inhibits translation. Biochemical Journal 467(1), 91–102.

6. Coruh C, Shahid S, Axtell MJ (2014) Seeing the forest for the trees: annotating small RNA producing genes in plants. Current opinion in plant biology 18, 87–95.

5. Shahid S, Axtell MJ (2013) Identification and annotation of small RNA genes using ShortStack. Methods 67(1), 20–27.

4. Amborella Genome Project (2013) The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science 342(6165), 1241089.

3. Azad A, Shahid S, Noman N, Lee H (2011) Prediction of plant promoters based on hexamers and random triplet pair analysis. Algorithms for Molecular Biology 6(1), 19.

2. Lisa LA, Elias SM, Rahman MS, Shahid S, Iwasaki T, Hasan AM, Kosuge K, Fukami Y, Seraj ZI (2011) Physiology and gene expression of the rice landrace Horkuch under salt stress. Functional Plant Biology 38(4), 282–292.

1. Shahid S, Elias SM, Biswas S, Seraj ZI (2010) READS-a resource for plant non-coding regulatory sequence analysis. Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology 20(2), 211–223.