Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

SI Agulnik and LM Silver

The Cairo spiny mouse Acomys cahirinus shows a strong affinity to the Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 3-6. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Fehrer

Conflicting character distribution within different data sets on cardueline finches: artifact or history?
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 7-20. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C Krajewski and DG King

Molecular divergence and phylogeny: rates and patterns of cytochrome b evolution in cranes
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 21-30. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L Fumagalli, P Taberlet, L Favre, and J Hausser

Origin and evolution of homologous repeated sequences in the mitochondrial DNA control region of shrews
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 31-46. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R Lan and PR Reeves

Gene transfer is a major factor in bacterial evolution
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 47-55. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PJ Wettstein, M Strausbauch, SL Johnston, and J States

The divergence of major histocompatibility complex class I genes in Sciurus aberti
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 56-66. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LK Medlin, WH Kooistra, R Gersonde, and U Wellbrock

Evolution of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta). II. Nuclear-encoded small- subunit rRNA sequence comparisons confirm a paraphyletic origin for the centric diatoms
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 67-75. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Giribet, S Carranza, J Baguna, M Riutort, and C Ribera

First molecular evidence for the existence of a Tardigrada + Arthropoda clade
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 76-84. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H Suzuki, S Wakana, H Yonekawa, K Moriwaki, S Sakurai, and E Nevo

Variations in ribosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA among chromosomal species of subterranean mole rats
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 85-92. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Felsenstein and GA Churchill

A Hidden Markov Model approach to variation among sites in rate of evolution
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 93-104. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SV Muse

Estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 105-114. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KA Crandall

Multiple interspecies transmissions of human and simian T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type I sequences
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 115-131. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DI Nurminsky, EN Moriyama, ER Lozovskaya, and DL Hartl

Molecular phylogeny and genome evolution in the Drosophila virilis species group: duplications of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 132-149. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

RE Hickson, C Simon, A Cooper, GS Spicer, J Sullivan, and D Penny

Conserved sequence motifs, alignment, and secondary structure for the third domain of animal 12S rRNA
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 150-169. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Nei and N Takezaki

The root of the phylogenetic tree of human populations
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 170-177. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Magoulas, N Tsimenides, and E Zouros

Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and the reconstruction of the population history of a species: the case of the European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus)
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 178-190. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ML Wayne, D Contamine, and M Kreitman

Molecular population genetics of ref(2)P, a locus which confers viral resistance in Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 191-199. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Adachi and M Hasegawa

Tempo and mode of synonymous substitutions in mitochondrial DNA of primates
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 200-208. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Lynch

Mutation accumulation in transfer RNAs: molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 209-220. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BC Hyman and JL Azevedo

Similar evolutionary patterning among repeated and single copy nematode mitochondrial genes
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 221-232. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E Boudreau and M Turmel

Extensive gene rearrangements in the chloroplast DNAs of Chlamydomonas species featuring multiple dispersed repeats
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 233-243. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Tang, L Toe, C Back, and TR Unnasch

Intra-specific heterogeneity of the rDNA internal transcribed spacer in the Simulium damnosum (Diptera: Simuliidae) complex
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 244-252. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JH McDonald

Detecting non-neutral heterogeneity across a region of DNA sequence in the ratio of polymorphism to divergence
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 253-260. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EN Moriyama and JR Powell

Intraspecific nuclear DNA variation in Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 261-277. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

JR Powell and JM Gleason

Codon usage and the origin of P elements
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 278-279. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

AT Schmid, SJ Newfeld, and B Yedvobnick

Interspecific RNA in situ hybridization reveals perinuclear mastermind transcripts in drosophila virilis
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 280-282. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PG Taylor

Reproducibility of ancient DNA sequences from extinct Pleistocene fauna
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 283-285. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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