Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

C Grimsley, KA Mather, and C Ober

HLA-H: a pseudogene with increased variation due to balancing selection at neighboring loci
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1581-1588. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Cizeron, F Lemeunier, C Loevenbruck, A Brehm, and C Biemont

Distribution of the retrotransposable element 412 in Drosophila species
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1589-1599. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Z Yang, R Nielsen, and M Hasegawa

Models of amino acid substitution and applications to mitochondrial protein evolution
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1600-1611. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

I Miura, H Ohtani, M Nakamura, Y Ichikawa, and K Saitoh

The origin and differentiation of the heteromorphic sex chromosomes Z, W, X, and Y in the frog Rana rugosa, inferred from the sequences of a sex-linked gene, ADP/ATP translocase
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1612-1619. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CM Hutter, MD Schug, and CF Aquadro

Microsatellite variation in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans: a reciprocal test of the ascertainment bias hypothesis
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1620-1636. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Y Cao, PJ Waddell, N Okada, and M Hasegawa

The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the shark Mustelus manazo: evaluating rooting contradictions to living bony vertebrates
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1637-1646. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JL Thorne, H Kishino, and IS Painter

Estimating the rate of evolution of the rate of molecular evolution
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1647-1657. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

RJ Mason-Gamer, CF Weil, and EA Kellogg

Granule-bound starch synthase: structure, function, and phylogenetic utility
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1658-1673. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Nekrutenko, DM Hillis, JC Patton, RD Bradley, and RJ Baker

Cytosolic isocitrate dehydrogenase in humans, mice, and voles and phylogenetic analysis of the enzyme family
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1674-1684. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Lecointre, L Rachdi, P Darlu, and E Denamur

Escherichia coli molecular phylogeny using the incongruence length difference test
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1685-1695. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Henry, IH Mather, MF McDermott, and P Pontarotti

B30.2-like domain proteins: update and new insights into a rapidly expanding family of proteins
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1696-1705. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Mallatt and J Sullivan

28S and 18S rDNA sequences support the monophyly of lampreys and hagfishes
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1706-1718. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MS Blouin, CA Yowell, CH Courtney, and JB Dame

Substitution bias, rapid saturation, and the use of mtDNA for nematode systematics
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1719-1727. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JB Whitfield and SA Cameron

Hierarchical analysis of variation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene among Hymenoptera
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1728-1743. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MW Nachman

Y chromosome variation of mice and men
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1744-1750. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MD Schug, CM Hutter, KA Wetterstrand, MS Gaudette, TF Mackay, and CF Aquadro

The mutation rates of di-, tri- and tetranucleotide repeats in Drosophila melanogaster
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1751-1760. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CH Biermann

The molecular evolution of sperm bindin in six species of sea urchins (Echinoida: Strongylocentrotidae)
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1761-1771. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

WC Black, 4th and RL Roehrdanz

Mitochondrial gene order is not conserved in arthropods: prostriate and metastriate tick mitochondrial genomes
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1772-1785. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

NJ Campbell and SC Barker

An unprecedented major rearrangement in an arthropod mitochondrial genome
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1786-1787. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

F Depaulis and M Veuille

Neutrality tests based on the distribution of haplotypes under an infinite-site model
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1788-1790. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

DD Duvernell and BJ Turner

Swimmer 1, a new low-copy-number LINE family in teleost genomes with sequence similarity to mammalian L1
Mol Biol Evol 1998 15: 1791-1793. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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