Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Brad A. Rikke, Shin Murakami, and Thomas E. Johnson

Paralogy and Orthology of Tyrosine Kinases that Can Extend the Life Span of Caenorhabditis elegans
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 671-683. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dana L. Campbell, Andrew V. Z. Brower, and Naomi E. Pierce

Molecular Evolution of the Wingless Gene and Its Implications for the Phylogenetic Placement of the Butterfly Family Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 684-696. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Galina L. Kogan, Vitalii N. Epstein, Alexei A. Aravin, and Vladimir A. Gvozdev

Molecular Evolution of Two Paralogous Tandemly Repeated Heterochromatic Gene Clusters Linked to the X and Y Chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 697-702. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Soojin Yi and Brian Charlesworth

Contrasting Patterns of Molecular Evolution of the Genes on the New and Old Sex Chromosomes of Drosophila miranda
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 703-717. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Torstein Tengs, Ole J. Dahlberg, Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, Dag Klaveness, Knut Rudi, Charles F. Delwiche, and Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Phylogenetic Analyses Indicate that the 19'Hexanoyloxy-fucoxanthin-Containing Dinoflagellates Have Tertiary Plastids of Haptophyte Origin
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 718-729. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cédric Feschotte and Claude Mouchès

Evidence that a Family of Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) from the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome Has Arisen from a pogo-like DNA Transposon
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 730-737. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sudhir Kumar, Chandra Mitnik, Graziela Valente, and Georgia Floyd-Smith

Expansion and Molecular Evolution of the Interferon-Induced 2'–5' Oligoadenylate Synthetase Gene Family
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 738-750. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oscar F. Cubero, Paul D. Bridge, and Ana Crespo

Terminal-Sequence Conservation Identifies Spliceosomal Introns in Ascomycete 18S RNA Genes
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 751-756. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Lynda Bennett, Anne M. Bowcock, and Marcus W. Feldman

Human Population Expansion and Microsatellite Variation
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 757-767. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. M. Seddon and P. R. Baverstock

Evolutionary Lineages of RT1.Ba in the Australian Rattus
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 768-772. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Xiao-Quan Wang, David C. Tank, and Tao Sang

Phylogeny and Divergence Times in Pinaceae: Evidence from Three Genomes
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 773-781. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. J. Sanderson, M. F. Wojciechowski, J.-M. Hu, T. Sher Khan, and S. G. Brady

Error, Bias, and Long-Branch Attraction in Data for Two Chloroplast Photosystem Genes in Seed Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 782-797. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rissa Ota, Peter J. Waddell, Masami Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Shimodaira, and Hirohisa Kishino

Appropriate Likelihood Ratio Tests and Marginal Distributions for Evolutionary Tree Models with Constraints on Parameters
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 798-803. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rikard Erlandsson, James F. Wilson, and Svante Pääbo

Sex Chromosomal Transposable Element Accumulation and Male-Driven Substitutional Evolution in Humans
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 804-812. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dennis V. Lavrov, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Wesley M. Brown

The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 813-824. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Jill Pecon Slattery, William J. Murphy, and Stephen J. O'Brien

Patterns of Diversity Among SINE Elements Isolated from Three Y-Chromosome Genes in Carnivores
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 825-829. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hervé Philippe* and and Agnès Germot

Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Ribosomal RNA: Long-Branch Attraction and Models of Sequence Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 830-834. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter J. Lockhart, Daniel Huson, Uwe Maier, Martin J. Fraunholz, Yves Van de Peer§, Adrian C. Barbrook, Christopher J. Howe, and Mike A. Steel

How Molecules Evolve in Eubacteria
Mol Biol Evol 2000 17: 835-838. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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