Giuseppe D'Onofrio
Campi di interesse
L’organizzazione e l’evoluzione (con particolare attenzione alla composizione in basi del DNA) del genoma dei vertebrati e degli invertebrati.
Pubblicazioni rilevanti:
Berná L., Chaurasia A., Angelini C., Federico C., Saccone S., D'Onofrio G (2012). The footprint of
metabolism in the organization of mammalian genomes. BMC Genomics. 13:174
Bernà L., D’Onofrio G., Alvarez-Valin F. (2012). Peculiar patterns of amino acid substitution and
conservation in the fast evolving tunicate Oikopleura dioica. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 62:708-17
A. Chaurasia, E. Uliano, L. Berná, C. Agnisola, G. D'Onofrio (2011). Does Habitat Affect the
Genomic GC Content? A Lesson from Teleostean Fish: A Mini Review. In: Fish Ecology.
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge NY (USA) pp 61-80.
E. Uliano, A. Chaurasia, L. Bernà, C. Agnisola, G. D'Onofrio (2010). Metabolic rate and genomic
GC. What we can learn from teleostean fish. Marine Genomics 3:29-34
L. Bernà, F. Alvarez-Valin, G. D'Onofrio (2009) How fast is the sessile ciona? Comp Funct
Genomics. doi: 10.1155/2009/875901
G. D'Onofrio, Ghosh, T. C., Saccone S. (2007) Different functional classes of genes are
characterized by different compositional properties. FEBS Letters 581: 5819-5824
Arhondakis, S., Auletta, F., Torelli, G., D'Onofrio G. (2004). Base composition and expression
level of human genes. Gene 325, 165-169
G. D'Onofrio, Ghosh, T. C., and Bernardi, G. (2002). The base composition of the human genes is
correlated with the secondary structures of the encoded proteins. Gene 300, 179-187.
G. D'Onofrio, (2002). Expression patterns and gene distribution in the human genome. Gene 300,
155-160.
H. Musto, S. Cruveiller, G. D’Onofrio, H. Romero and G. Bernardi (2001). Translational selection
on codon usage in Xenopus laevis. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 1703-1707.
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