Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Jean-Nicolas Volff, Cornelia Körting, Joachim Altschmied, Jutta Duschl, Kimberley Sweeney, Katrin Wichert, Alexander Froschauer, and Manfred Schartl

Jule from the Fish Xiphophorus Is the First Complete Vertebrate Ty3/Gypsy Retrotransposon from the Mag Family
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 101-111. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graham Muir, Colin C. Fleming, and Christian Schlötterer

Three Divergent rDNA Clusters Predate the Species Divergence in Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Quercus robur L
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 112-119. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Silvestro G. Conticello, Yoav Gilad, Nili Avidan, Edna Ben-Asher, Zehava Levy, and Mike Fainzilber

Mechanisms for Evolving Hypervariability: The Case of Conopeptides
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 120-131. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  [Request Permissions]  

Mark S. Springer, Ronald W. DeBry, Christophe Douady, Heather M. Amrine, Ole Madsen, Wilfried W. de Jong, and Michael J. Stanhope

Mitochondrial Versus Nuclear Gene Sequences in Deep-Level Mammalian Phylogeny Reconstruction
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 132-143. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  [Request Permissions]  

Christian Sturmbauer, Sanja Baric, Walter Salzburger, Lukas Rüber, and Erik Verheyen

Lake Level Fluctuations Synchronize Genetic Divergences of Cichlid Fishes in African Lakes
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 144-154. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Caroline Stuart-Rogers and Andrew J. Flavell

The Evolution of Ty1-copia Group Retrotransposons in Gymnosperms
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 155-163. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naohiko T. Miyashita

DNA Variation in the 5' Upstream Region of the Adh Locus of the Wild Plants Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabis gemmifera
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 164-171. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naoyuki Takahata, Sang-Hee Lee, and Yoko Satta

Testing Multiregionality of Modern Human Origins
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 172-183. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thorsten Burmester

Molecular Evolution of the Arthropod Hemocyanin Superfamily
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 184-195. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Isabelle Busseau, Eugène Berezikov, and Alain Bucheton

Identification of Waldo-A and Waldo-B, Two Closely Related Non-LTR Retrotransposons in Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 196-205. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcel van Tuinen and S. Blair Hedges

Calibration of Avian Molecular Clocks
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 206-213. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ning Yu, Z. Zhao, Y.-X. Fu, N. Sambuughin, M. Ramsay, T. Jenkins, E. Leskinen, L. Patthy, L. B. Jorde, T. Kuromori, and W.-H. Li

Global Patterns of Human DNA Sequence Variation in a 10-kb Region on Chromosome 1
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 214-222. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas R. Buckley, Chris Simon, Hidetoshi Shimodaira, and Geoffrey K. Chambers

Evaluating Hypotheses on the Origin and Evolution of the New Zealand Alpine Cicadas (Maoricicada) Using Multiple-Comparison Tests of Tree Topology
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 223-234. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen L. Gentile, William D. Burke, and Thomas H. Eickbush

Multiple Lineages of R1 Retrotransposable Elements Can Coexist in the rDNA Loci of Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 235-245. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Douda Bensasson, Dmitri A. Petrov, De-Xing Zhang, Daniel L. Hartl, and Godfrey M. Hewitt

Genomic Gigantism: DNA Loss Is Slow in Mountain Grasshoppers
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 246-253. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Worobey and Edward C. Holmes

Homologous Recombination in GB Virus C/Hepatitis G Virus
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 254-261. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Anders J. Hansen, Eske Willerslev, Carsten Wiuf, Tobias Mourier, and Peter Arctander

Statistical Evidence for Miscoding Lesions in Ancient DNA Templates
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 262-265. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-Nicolas Volff, Cornelia Körting, and Manfred Schartl

Ty3/Gypsy Retrotransposon Fossils in Mammalian Genomes: Did They Evolve into New Cellular Functions?
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 266-270. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Posada and Keith A. Crandall

Simple (Wrong) Models for Complex Trees: A Case from Retroviridae
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 271-275. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 276-277. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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