Molecular Biology and Evolution

Editorials:

Evolutionary Annotation of the Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1775. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

David D. Pollock, Jonathan A. Eisen, Norman A. Doggett, and Michael P. Cummings

A Case for Evolutionary Genomics and the Comprehensive Examination of Sequence Biodiversity
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1776-1788. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manyuan Long and Carl Rosenberg

Testing the "Proto-splice Sites" Model of Intron Origin: Evidence from Analysis of Intron Phase Correlations
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1789-1796. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pierre-André Crochet and Eric Desmarais

Slow Rate of Evolution in the Mitochondrial Control Region of Gulls (Aves: Laridae)
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1797-1806. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexei Drummond and Allen G. Rodrigo

Reconstructing Genealogies of Serial Samples Under the Assumption of a Molecular Clock Using Serial-Sample UPGMA
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1807-1815. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard R. Kirby

An Ancient Transpecific Polymorphism Shows Extreme Divergence in a Multitrait Cline in an Intertidal Snail (Nucella lapillus (L.))
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1816-1825. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jaime García-Moreno and David P. Mindell

Rooting a Phylogeny with Homologous Genes on Opposite Sex Chromosomes (Gametologs): A Case Study Using Avian CHD
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1826-1832. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Casper Groth, Randi Føns Petersen, and Jure Piskur

Diversity in Organization and the Origin of Gene Orders in the Mitochondrial DNA Molecules of the Genus Saccharomyces
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1833-1841. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

N. B. Mugridge, D. A. Morrison, T. Jäkel, A. R. Heckeroth, A. M. Tenter, and A. M. Johnson

Effects of Sequence Alignment and Structural Domains of Ribosomal DNA on Phylogeny Reconstruction for the Protozoan Family Sarcocystidae
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1842-1853. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David D. Pollock and William J. Bruno

Assessing an Unknown Evolutionary Process: Effect of Increasing Site-Specific Knowledge Through Taxon Addition
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1854-1858. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Patrick King, Marek Kimmel, and Ranajit Chakraborty

A Power Analysis of Microsatellite-Based Statistics for Inferring Past Population Growth
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1859-1868. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshinori Kumazawa and Mutsumi Nishida

Molecular Phylogeny of Osteoglossoids: A New Model for Gondwanian Origin and Plate Tectonic Transportation of the Asian Arowana
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1869-1878. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kazuharu Misawa and Fumio Tajima

A Simple Method for Classifying Genes and a Bootstrap Test for Classifications
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1879-1884. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel L. Nickrent, Christopher L. Parkinson, Jeffrey D. Palmer, and R. Joel Duff

Multigene Phylogeny of Land Plants with Special Reference to Bryophytes and the Earliest Land Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1885-1895. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Schubert, Linda Z. Holland, Nicholas D. Holland, and David K. Jacobs

A Phylogenetic Tree of the Wnt Genes Based on All Available Full-Length Sequences, Including Five from the Cephalochordate Amphioxus
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1896-1903. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine L. Craig, Christian Riekel, Marie E. Herberstein, Robert S. Weber, David Kaplan, and Naomi E. Pierce

Evidence for Diet Effects on the Composition of Silk Proteins Produced by Spiders
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1904-1913. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael W. Frohlich and George F. Estabrook

Wilkinson Support Calculated with Exact Probabilities: An Example Using Floricaula/LEAFY Amino Acid Sequences that Compares Three Hypotheses Involving Gene Gain/Loss in Seed Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1914-1925. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B. Angers, A. Estoup, and P. Jarne

Microsatellite Size Homoplasy, SSCP, and Population Structure: A Case Study in the Freshwater Snail Bulinus truncatus
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1926-1932. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nelson D. Young and Claude W. dePamphilis

Purifying Selection Detected in the Plastid Gene matK and Flanking Ribozyme Regions Within a Group II Intron of Nonphotosynthetic Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1933-1941. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agustí Munte, Montserrat Aguade, and Carmen Segarra

Nucleotide Variation at the yellow Gene Region is not Reduced in Drosophila subobscura: A Study in Relation to Chromosomal Polymorphism
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1942-1955. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kristin K. Koretke, Andrei N. Lupas, Patrick V. Warren, Martin Rosenberg, and James R. Brown

Evolution of Two-Component Signal Transduction
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1956-1970. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Debashish Bhattacharya, François Lutzoni, Valérie Reeb, Dawn Simon, John Nason, and Fernando Fernandez

Widespread Occurrence of Spliceosomal Introns in the rDNA Genes of Ascomycetes
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1971-1984. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Andreas Wagner

Inferring Lifestyle from Gene Expression Patterns
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1985-1987. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter J. Waddell, Hirohisa Kishino, and Rissa Ota

Rapid Evaluation of the Phylogenetic Congruence of Sequence Data Using Likelihood Ratio Tests
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 1988-1992. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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