• Evolution of macromolecular structure
  
• Function and structure in ncRNA
• Evolution of biological networks
  
• Evolutionary role of spontaneous mutation
  
• Interaction of plants and microbes

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Recent publications:

Sun F, S Fleurdepine, C Bousquet-Antonelli, G Caetano-Anollés, and J-M Deragon (2006) Common evolutionary trends for tRNA-derived SINE RNA structures. Trends in Genetics, under review

Wang M and Caetano-Anollés (2006) Global phylogeny determined by the combination of protein domains in proteomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, in press

Wang M, SM Boca, R Kalelkar, JE Mittenthal and G Caetano-Anollés (2006) A phylogenomic reconstruction of the protein world based on a genomic census of protein fold architecture. Complexity, in press

Kim HS, JE Mittenthal and G Caetano-Anollés (2006) MANET: tracing evolution of protein architecture in metabolic networks. BMC Bioinformatics 7:351

Caetano-Anollés G (2005) Genome size evolution in the grasses. Crop Science 45:1809-1816 (pdf)

Caetano-Anollés G (2005) Grass evolution inferred from chromosomal rearrangements and geometrical and statistical features in RNA structure. Journal of Molecular Evolution 60:635-652 (pdf)

Caetano-Anollés G, D Caetano-Anollés (2005) Universal sharing patterns in proteomes and evolution of protein fold architecture and life. Journal of Molecular Evolution 60:484-498 (pdf)

Caetano-Anollés G (2004) Protein evolution: charting the universe of macromolecular structure. Chemistry Today 21:20-2 (pdf)

Abesha E, G Caetano-Anollés and K Høiland (2003) Population genetics and spatial structure of the fairy ring fungus Marasmius oreades in a Norwegian sand dune ecosystem. Mycologia 95:1021-1031 (pdf)

Caetano-Anollés G, and D. Caetano-Anollés (2003) An evolutionarily structured universe of protein architecture. Genome Research 13:1563-1571 (abstract)(pdf)(supplementary material)

Mathesius U, S Mulders, M Gao, M Teplitski, G Caetano-Anollés, BG Rolfe and WD Bauer (2003) Extensive and specific responses of an eukaryote to quorum sensing signals. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100:1444-1449 (abstract) (pdf) (supplementary material).

Caetano-Anollés G (2002) Tracing the evolution of RNA structure in ribosomes. Nucleic Acids Research 30:2575-2587 (abstract) (pdf) (supplementary material).

Caetano-Anollés G (2002) Evolved RNA secondary structure and the rooting of the universal tree. Journal of Molecular Evolution 54:333-345 (abstract) (pdf). Winner of the 2002 ZUCKERKANDL PRIZE from Springer Verlag and the International Society of Molecular Evolution.
See editorials:
Anonymous (2003) The Zuckerkandl Prize. Journal of Molecular Evolution 56:373-374 (pdf)
Pollock D (2003) The Zuckerkandl Prize: structure and evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 56:375-376 (pdf)

Caetano-Anollés, G. (2001) Novel strategies to study the role of mutation and nucleic acid structure in evolution. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 67:115-132 (abstract) (pdf).

Caetano-Anollés, G., R.N. Trigiano and M.T. Windham (2001) Patterns of evolution in Discula fungi and the origin of dogwood anthracnose in North America studied using arbitrarily amplified and ribosomal DNA. Current Genetics 39:346-354 (abstract) (pdf).

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