Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

D Ugarkovic, M Podnar, and M Plohl

Satellite DNA of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum--comparative study of satellites from the genus Tribolium
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1059-1066. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D Comas, F Calafell, E Mateu, A Perez-Lezaun, and J Bertranpetit

Geographic variation in human mitochondrial DNA control region sequence: the population history of Turkey and its relationship to the European populations
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1067-1077. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E Popodi, JC Kissinger, ME Andrews, and RA Raff

Sea urchin Hox genes: insights into the ancestral Hox cluster
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1078-1086. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JW Sites, Jr, SK Davis, T Guerra, JB Iverson, and HL Snell

Character congruence and phylogenetic signal in molecular and morphological data sets: a case study in the living Iguanas (Squamata, Iguanidae)
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1087-1105. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S Lavery, C Moritz, and DR Fielder

Genetic Patterns Suggest Exponential Population Growth in a Declining Species
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1106-1113. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JH McDonald, BC Verrelli, and LB Geyer

Lack of geographic variation in anonymous nuclear polymorphisms in the American oyster, Crassostrea virginica
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1114-1118. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BA Houlden, WD Greville, and WB Sherwin

Evolution of MHC class I loci in marsupials: characterization of sequences from koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) [published erratum appears in Mol Biol Evol 1996 Dec;13(10):1407]
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1119-1127. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Pawlowski, JI Montoya-Burgos, JF Fahrni, J Wuest, and L Zaninetti

Origin of the Mesozoa inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1128-1132. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MT Hamblin and CF Aquadro

High nucleotide sequence variation in a region of low recombination in Drosophila simulans is consistent with the background selection model
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1133-1140. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S Mathews and RA Sharrock

The phytochrome gene family in grasses (Poaceae): a phylogeny and evidence that grasses have a subset of the loci found in dicot angiosperms
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1141-1150. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

TC Glenn, W Stephan, HC Dessauer, and MJ Braun

Allelic diversity in alligator microsatellite loci is negatively correlated with GC content of flanking sequences and evolutionary conservation of PCR amplifiability
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1151-1154. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E Eller and HC Harpending

Simulations Show that Neither Population Expansion nor Population Stationarity in a West African Population Can Be Rejected
Mol Biol Evol 1996 13: 1155-1157. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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