Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Y Suzuki and T Gojobori

A method for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1315-1328. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K Vijverberg and K Bachmann

Molecular evolution of a tandemly repeated trnF(GAA) gene in the chloroplast genomes of Microseris (Asteraceae) and the use of structural mutations in phylogenetic analyses
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1329-1340. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Losada, JP Abad, M Agudo, and A Villasante

The analysis of Circe, an LTR retrotransposon of Drosophila melanogaster, suggests that an insertion of non-LTR retrotransposons into LTR elements can create chimeric retroelements
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1341-1346. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Sullivan, DL Swofford, and GJP Naylor

The Effect of Taxon Sampling on Estimating Rate Heterogeneity Parameters of Maximum-Likelihood Models
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1347-1356. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L Excoffier and Z Yang

Substitution rate variation among sites in mitochondrial hypervariable region I of humans and chimpanzees
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1357-1368. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G Drouin, F Prat, M Ell, and GD Clarke

Detecting and characterizing gene conversions between multigene family members
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1369-1390. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PJ Deschavanne, A Giron, J Vilain, G Fagot, and B Fertil

Genomic signature: characterization and classification of species assessed by chaos game representation of sequences
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1391-1399. [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Lyons-Weiler and GA Hoelzer

Null Model Selection, Compositional Bias, Character State Bias, and the Limits of Phylogenetic Information
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1400-1405. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

KM Olsen

Minisatellite variation in a single-copy nuclear gene: phylogenetic assessment of repeat length homoplasy and mutational mechanism
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1406-1409. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

JF Bailey, M Henneberg, IB Colson, A Ciarallo, RE Hedges, and B Sykes

Monkey business in Pompeii--unique find of a juvenile barbary macaque skeleton in Pompeii identified using osteology and ancient DNA techniques
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1410-1414. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

NM Fast, JM Logsdon, Jr, and WF Doolittle

Phylogenetic analysis of the TATA box binding protein (TBP) gene from Nosema locustae: evidence for a microsporidia-fungi relationship and spliceosomal intron loss
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1415-1419. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J da Silva and AL Hughes

Molecular phylogenetic evidence of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) selection on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1420-1422. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Hey and E Harris

Population bottlenecks and patterns of human polymorphism
Mol Biol Evol 1999 16: 1423-1426. [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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