Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

RE Broughton and TE Dowling

Evolutionary dynamics of tandem repeats in the mitochondrial DNA control region of the minnow Cyprinella spiloptera
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1187-1196. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B Mantovani, F Tinti, L Bachmann, and V Scali

The Bag320 satellite DNA family in Bacillus stick insects (Phasmatodea): different rates of molecular evolution of highly repetitive DNA in bisexual and parthenogenic taxa
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1197-1205. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Kajikawa, K Ohshima, and N Okada

Determination of the entire sequence of turtle CR1: the first open reading frame of the turtle CR1 element encodes a protein with a novel zinc finger motif
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1206-1217. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MJ Sanderson

A Nonparametric Approach to Estimating Divergence Times in the Absence of Rate Constancy
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1218-1231. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

WC Lathe, 3rd and TH Eickbush

A single lineage of r2 retrotransposable elements is an active, evolutionarily stable component of the Drosophila rDNA locus
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1232-1241. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

N Daugbjerg and RA Andersen

Phylogenetic analyses of the rbcL sequences from haptophytes and heterokont algae suggest their chloroplasts are unrelated
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1242-1251. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

VL Bauer and CF Aquadro

Rates of DNA sequence evolution are not sex-biased in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1252-1257. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T Mukai, K Naruse, T Sato, A Shima, and M Morisawa

Multiregional introgressions inferred from the mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of a hybridizing species complex of gobiid fishes, genus Tridentiger
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1258-1265. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Janke and U Arnason

The complete mitochondrial genome of Alligator mississippiensis and the separation between recent archosauria (birds and crocodiles)
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1266-1272. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DW Stock, JM Quattro, GS Whitt, and DA Powers

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) gene duplication during chordate evolution: the cDNA sequence of the LDH of the tunicate Styela plicata
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1273-1284. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

GH Thomas, EC Newbern, CC Korte, MA Bales, SV Muse, AG Clark, and DP Kiehart

Intragenic duplication and divergence in the spectrin superfamily of proteins
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1285-1295. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LS Jermiin, GJ Olsen, KL Mengerson, and S Easteal

Majority-Rule Consensus of Phylogenetic Trees Obtained by Maximum-Likelihood Analysis
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1296-1302. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Kawabe, H Innan, R Terauchi, and NT Miyashita

Nucleotide polymorphism in the acidic chitinase locus (ChiA) region of the wild plant Arabidopsis thaliana
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1303-1315. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T Luque, G Marfany, and R Gonzalez-Duarte

Characterization and molecular analysis of Adh retrosequences in species of the Drosophila obscura group
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1316-1325. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Kruse, IM Muller, and WE Muller

Early evolution of metazoan serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases: identification of selected kinases in marine sponges
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1326-1334. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

J Zhang, S Kumar, and M Nei

Small-sample tests of episodic adaptive evolution: a case study of primate lysozymes
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1335-1338. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

N Inomata, H Tachida, and T Yamazaki

Molecular Evolution of the Amy Multigenes in the Subgenus Sophophora of Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 1338. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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