Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

JA Lake

Phylogenetic inference: how much evolutionary history is knowable?
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 213-219. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R van Treuren, H Kuittinen, K Karkkainen, E Baena-Gonzalez, and O Savolainen

Evolution of microsatellites in Arabis petraea and Arabis lyrata, outcrossing relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 220-229. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B Angers and L Bernatchez

Complex evolution of a salmonid microsatellite locus and its consequences in inferring allelic divergence from size information
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 230-238. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

NC Grassly and EC Holmes

A likelihood method for the detection of selection and recombination using nucleotide sequences
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 239-247. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Ruvolo

Molecular phylogeny of the hominoids: inferences from multiple independent DNA sequence data sets
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 248-265. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Durstewitz and NB Terwilliger

cDNA cloning of a developmentally regulated hemocyanin subunit in the crustacean Cancer magister and phylogenetic analysis of the hemocyanin gene family
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 266-276. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JV Lopez, M Culver, JC Stephens, WE Johnson, and SJ O'Brien

Rates of nuclear and cytoplasmic mitochondrial DNA sequence divergence in mammals
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 277-286. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

NJ Tourasse and M Gouy

Evolutionary distances between nucleotide sequences based on the distribution of substitution rates among sites as estimated by parsimony
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 287-298. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M Behrens, TG Langecker, H Wilkens, and H Schmale

Comparative analysis of Pax-6 sequence and expression in the eye development of the blind cave fish Astyanax fasciatus and its epigean conspecific
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 299-308. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MC Hedin

Molecular phylogenetics at the population/species interface in cave spiders of the southern Appalachians (Araneae:Nesticidae:Nesticus)
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 309-324. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R Bleiweiss, JA Kirsch, and JC Matheus

DNA hybridization evidence for the principal lineages of hummingbirds (Aves:Trochilidae)
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 325-343. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DC Shields and KH Wolfe

Accelerated evolution of sites undergoing mRNA editing in plant mitochondria and chloroplasts
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 344-349. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

RJ O'Neill, MD Eldridge, RH Crozier, and JA Graves

Low levels of sequence divergence in rock wallabies (Petrogale) suggest a lack of positive directional selection in SRY
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 350-353. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Statistical Properties of the Variation at Linked Microsatellite Loci: Implications for the History of Human Y Chromosomes
Mol Biol Evol 1997 14: 354. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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