PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

* indicates an undergraduate co-author.
  1. Ring KL*, Cavalcanti ARO (2007) Consequences of Stop Codon Reassignment on Protein Evolution in Ciliates with Alternative Genetic Codes. Mol Biol Evol Ahead of Print doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm237
  2. Mollenbeck M, Cavalcanti ARO, Jonsson F, Lipps H, Landweber LF (2006) Interconversion of germline-limited and somatic DNA in a scrambled gene. J Mol Evol. 63(1):69-73.
  3. Cavalcanti ARO, Stover NA, Landweber LF (2006) On the paucity of duplicated genes in Caenorhabditis elegans operons. J Mol Evol. 62(6):765-771.
  4. Stover NA, Kaye MS*, Cavalcanti ARO (2006) Quick Guide: Spliced leader trans-splicing. Curr Biol. 16: R8-R9.
  5. Stover NA, Cavalcanti ARO, Li AJ*, Richardson BC, Landweber LF (2005) Reciprocal fusions of two genes in the formaldehyde detoxification pathway in ciliates and diatoms. Mol Biol Evol. 22: 1539-1542.
  6. Cavalcanti ARO, Clarke TH*, Landweber LF (2005) MDS_IES_DB: A Database of Macronuclear and Micronuclear Genes in Spirotrichous Ciliates. Nucleic Acids Res. 33(Database issue): D396-398.
  7. Liang H, Cavalcanti ARO, Landweber LF (2005) Conservation of tandem stop codons in yeasts. Genome Biol. 6: R31.
  8. Liang H, Wong J*, Bao Q, Cavalcanti ARO, and Landweber LF (2005) Decoding the decoding region: analysis of the eukaryotic release factor (eRF1) stop codon-binding residues. J Mol Evol. 60: 337-344.
  9. Cavalcanti ARO , Stover N, Orecchia L*, Doak TG, Landweber LF (2004) Properties of Oxytricha trifallax nanochromosomes: analysis of a pilot genome project. Chromosoma 113 (2): 69 –76.
  10. Cavalcanti ARO , Doak TG, Landweber LF (2004) Sequence features of Oxytricha trifallax (class Spirotrichia) macronuclear telomeric and subtelomeric sequences. Protist 155: 311–322.
  11. Cavalcanti ARO , Leite ES*, Neto BB, Ferreira R (2004) On the classes of Aminoacyl-tRNA Syntethases, amino acids and the genetic code . Orig Life Evol Biosph 34 (4): 407–420.
  12. Cavalcanti ARO , Landweber LF (2004) Gene Unscrambler – A Program to Study Scrambled Genes in Ciliates. Bioinformatics 20 (5): 800–802.
  13. Cavalcanti ARO , Chang W (2004) Book Review: Computation in Living Cells: Gene Assembly in Ciliates. J Euk Microbiol 51 (4): 459.
  14. Cavalcanti ARO , Landweber LF (2004) Quick Guide: Genetic Code. Curr Biol 14 (4): R147.
  15. Cavalcanti ARO , Landweber LF (2003) Genetic code: what nature missed. Curr Biol 13 (22): R884–885.
  16. Doak TG, Cavalcanti ARO, Stover NA, Dunn DM, Weiss R, Herrick G, Landweber LF (2003) Sequencing the Oxytricha trifallax macronuclear genome: a pilot project. Trends Genet 19 (11): 603–607.
  17. Li WH, Gu Z, Cavalcanti ARO, Nekrutenko A (2003) Detection of gene duplications and block duplications in eukaryotic genomes. J Struct Funct Genomics 3 (1-4): 27–34.
  18. Cavalcanti ARO , Gu Z, Ferreira R, Li WH (2003) Patterns of Gene Duplication in Yeast and Worm. J Mol Evol 56 (1): 28–37.
  19. Gu Z, Cavalcanti A, Chen FC, Bouman P, Li WH ( 2002) Extent of gene duplication in the genomes of Drosophila, nematode, and yeast. Mol Biol Evol 19 (3): 256–262 .
  20. Cavalcanti ARO , Ferreira R (2001) On the Relative Content of G,C Bases in Codons of Amino Acids Corresponding to Class I and II tRNA Synthetases. Orig Life Evol Biosph 31 : 257–269.
  21. Cavalcanti ARO , Neto BB, Ferreira R (2000) On the Classes of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and the Error Minimization in the Genetic Code. J Theor Biol 204: 15–20.
  22. Cavalcanti ARO , Ferreira R (1998) On the Relative Content of C,G Bases in Codons Corresponding to the Two Classes of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases. An Acad Bras Ci 70 (4): 899–904.
  23. Ferreira R, Cavalcanti ARO (1997) Vestiges of Early Molecular Processes Leading to the Emergence of the Genetic Code. Orig Life Evol Biosph 27: 397–403.
  24. Cavalcanti ARO* , Ferreira R (1995) On the Statistical Distribution of Amino Acid Residues in Randomly Synthesized Peptides. An Acad Bras Ci 67 (4): 401–402.

PUBLICATIONS IN MEETING REPORTS

  1. Cavalcanti ARO* , Souza Jr MB (1996) Biological Processes Modeled by Neural Networks. An SINAFERM 11 (a).
  2. Cavalcanti ARO* , Ferreira R (1995) Sobre a Distribuição Estatística de Resíduos de Amino Ácidos em Peptídeos Sintetizados Aleatoriamente. An Acad Bras Ci 67 (3): 396 (in Portuguese).

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