Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Gregory A. C. Singer and Donal A. Hickey

Nucleotide Bias Causes a Genomewide Bias in the Amino Acid Composition of Proteins
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1581-1588. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gitte Petersen and Ole Seberg

Phylogenetic Evidence for Excision of Stowaway Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements in Triticeae (Poaceae)
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1589-1596. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wolfgang J. Miller, Alexander Nagel, Jutta Bachmann, and Lutz Bachmann

Evolutionary Dynamics of the SGM Transposon Family in the Drosophila obscura Species Group
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1597-1609. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Akito Chinen, Yasuhiro Naito, Naofumi Handa, and Ichizo Kobayashi

Evolution of Sequence Recognition by Restriction-Modification Enzymes: Selective Pressure for Specificity Decrease
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1610-1619. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laurent Duret and Nicolas Galtier

The Covariation Between TpA Deficiency, CpG Deficiency, and G+C Content of Human Isochores Is Due to a Mathematical Artifact
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1620-1625. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agnès Viale, Anouk Courseaux, Françoise Presse, Christine Ortola, Christophe Breton, Daniel Jordan, and Jean-Louis Nahon

Structure and Expression of the Variant Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Genes: Only PMCHL1 Is Transcribed in the Developing Human Brain and Encodes a Putative Protein
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1626-1640. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian Schlötterer and Bettina Harr

Drosophila virilis Has Long and Highly Polymorphic Microsatellites
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1641-1646. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David J. Cutler

Estimating Divergence Times in the Presence of an Overdispersed Molecular Clock
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1647-1660. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christophe Javaud, Fabrice Dupuy, Abderrahman Maftah, Jean-Claude Michalski, Rafael Oriol, Jean-Michel Petit, and Raymond Julien

Ancestral Exonic Organization of FUT8, the Gene Encoding the 6-Fucosyltransferase, Reveals Successive Peptide Domains Which Suggest a Particular Three-Dimensional Core Structure for the 6-Fucosyltransferase Family
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1661-1672. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-Nicolas Volff, Cornelia Körting, and Manfred Schartl

Multiple Lineages of the Non-LTR Retrotransposon Rex1 with Varying Success in Invading Fish Genomes
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1673-1684. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin W. Simmen and Adrian Bird

Sequence Analysis of Transposable Elements in the Sea Squirt, Ciona intestinalis
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1685-1694. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David S. Horner, Peter G. Foster, and T. Martin Embley

Iron Hydrogenases and the Evolution of Anaerobic Eukaryotes
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1695-1709. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles, Rosa Tarrío, and Francisco J. Ayala

Evidence for a High Ancestral GC Content in Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1710-1717. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julia Krushkal, Olga Bat, and Irma Gigli

Evolutionary Relationships Among Proteins Encoded by the Regulator of Complement Activation Gene Cluster
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1718-1730. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas B. Stibitz, Patrick J. Keeling, and Debashish Bhattacharya

Symbiotic Origin of a Novel Actin Gene in the Cryptophyte Pyrenomonas helgolandii
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1731-1738. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Robson, Glenda M. Wright, John H. Youson, and Fred W. Keeley

The Structure and Organization of Lamprin Genes: Multiple-Copy Genes with Alternative Splicing and Convergent Evolution with Insect Structural Proteins
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1739-1752. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pierre Tuff and Pierre Darlu

Exploring a Phylogenetic Approach for the Detection of Correlated Substitutions in Proteins
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1753-1759. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruno Paquin, Marie-Josée Laforest, and B. Franz Lang

Double-Hairpin Elements in the Mitochondrial DNA of Allomyces: Evidence for Mobility
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1760-1768. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gary B. Nunn and Scott E. Stanley

Corrigendum for: Body Size Effects and Rates of Cytochrome-b Evolution in Tube-nosed Seabirds[Volume 15(10):1360–1371]
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1774. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Audrey P. de Koning, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Steven J. M. Jones, and Patrick J. Keeling

Lateral Gene Transfer and Metabolic Adaptation in the Human Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1769-1773. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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