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El Dr. Musto Mancebo es investigador Grado 4 en el Area Biología del PEDECIBA. Ingresó al Programa en 1996. Desempeña sus actividades en el Laboratorio de Organización y Evolución del Genoma, Facultad de Ciencias.

Su línea de investigación es:

  • Organización y evolución molecular del genoma

    Dirección postal:
    Laboratorio de Organización y Evolución del Genoma
    Instituto de Biología,
    Facultad de Ciencias
    Universidad de la República
    Iguá 4225
    Montevideo 11400
    Uruguay
    Tel: (+598 2) 525 8618-22
    Fax: (+598 2) 525 8617
    e-mail: hmusto@fcien.edu.uy



  • Publicaciones


    • Naya H, Romero H, Zavala A, Alvarez B, Musto H
      Aerobiosis increases the genomic guanine plus cytosine content (GC%) in prokaryotes
      J Mol Evol,55(3): 260-264 (2002)

    • Zavala A, Naya H, Romero H, Musto H
      Trends in codon and amino acid usage in Thermotoga maritima
      J Mol Evol, 54(5): 563-568 (2002)

    • Fernandez V, Zavala A, Musto H
      Evidence for translational selection in codon usage in Echinococcus spp.
      Parasitology, 123(Pt 2): 203-209 (2001)

    • Musto H, Cruveiller S, D'Onofrio G, Romero H, Bernardi G
      Translational selection on codon usage in Xenopus laevis
      Mol Biol Evol, 18(9): 1703-1707 (2001)

    • Naya H, Romero H, Carels N, Zavala A, Musto H
      Translational selection shapes codon usage in the GC-rich genome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
      FEBS Lett, 501(2-3): 127-130 (2001)

    • Romero H, Zavala A, Musto H
      Compositional pressure and translational selection determine codon usage in the extremely GC-poor unicellular eukaryote Entamoeba histolytica
      Gene, 242(1-2): 307-311 (2000)

    • Romero H, Zavala A, Musto H
      Codon usage in Chlamydia trachomatis is the result of strand-specific mutational biases and a complex pattern of selective forces
      Nucleic Acids Res, 28(10): 2084-2090 (2000)

    • Fernandez V, Chalar C, Martinez C, Musto H, Zaha A, Fernandez C
      Echinococcus granulosus: molecular cloning and phylogenetic analysis of an inducible glutathione S-transferase
      Exp Parasitol, 96(3): 190-194 (2000)

    • Garat B, Musto H
      Trends of amino acid usage in the proteins from the unicellular parasite Giardia lamblia
      Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 279(3): 996-1000 (2000)

    • Musto H, Romero H, Zavala A, Bernardi G
      Compositional correlations in the chicken genome
      J Mol Evol, 49(3): 325-9 (1999)

    • D'Onofrio G, Jabbari K, Musto H, Alvarez-Valin F, Cruveiller S, Bernardi G
      Evolutionary genomics of vertebrates and its implications
      Ann N Y Acad Sci, 870: 81-94 (1999) Review.

    • Musto H, Romero H, Zavala A, Jabbari K, Bernardi G
      Synonymous codon choices in the extremely GC-poor genome of Plasmodium falciparum: compositional constraints and translational selection
      J Mol Evol, 49(1): 27-35 (1999)

    • D'Onofrio G, Jabbari K, Musto H, Bernardi G
      The correlation of protein hydropathy with the base composition of coding sequences
      Gene, 238(1): 3-14 (1999)

    • Musto H, Romero H, Rodríguez Maseda H.
      Heterogeneity in codon usage in the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni
      J Mol Evol, 46(2): 159-67 (1998)

    • Musto H, Caccio S, Rodríguez Maseda H, Bernardi G
      Compositional constraints in the extremely GC-poor genome of Plasmodium falciparum
      Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 92(6): 835-41 (1997)

    • Novello A, Cortinas MN, Suárez M, Musto H
      Cytogenetic and molecular analysis of the satellite DNA of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia Octodontidae) from Uruguay
      Chromosome Res, 4(5): 335-9 (1996)

    • Alvarez F, Cortinas MN, Musto H
      The analysis of protein coding genes suggests monophyly of Trypanosoma
      Mol Phylogenet Evol, 5(2): 333-43 (1996)

    • Musto H, Rodríguez Maseda H, Alvarez F
      Compositional correlations in the nuclear genes of the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni
      J Mol Evol, 40(3): 343-6 (1995)

    • Musto H, Rodríguez Maseda H, Bernardi G
      Compositional properties of nuclear genes from Plasmodium falciparum
      Gene, 152(1): 127-32 (1995)

    • Musto H, Alvarez F, Tort J, Rodríguez Maseda H
      Dinucleotide biases in the platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni
      Int J Parasitol, 24(2): 277-83 (1994)

    • Rodríguez-Maseda H, Musto H
      The compositional compartments of the nuclear genomes of Trypanosoma brucei and T. cruzi
      Gene, 151(1-2): 221-4 (1994)

    • Musto H, Rodríguez Maseda H, Bernardi G
      The nuclear genomes of African and American trypanosomes are strikingly different
      Gene, 141(1): 63-9 (1994)

    • Musto H, Rodríguez Maseda H, Alvarez F, Tort J
      Possible implications of CpG avoidance in the flatworm Schistosoma mansoni
      J Mol Evol, 38(1): 36-40 (1994)

    • Alvarez F, Garat B, Musto H, Picón M, Ehrlich R
      Tendencies in Echinococcus sp. codon usage
      Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 88(2): 345-6 (1993)

    • Heguy A, Musto H, Wettstein R
      Comparative DNA analysis of three South American marsupials
      Nucleic Acids Res, 10: 5967-5978 (1982)