Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

David Posada and Keith A. Crandall

Selecting Models of Nucleotide Substitution: An Application to Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 897-906. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leena Suominen, Christophe Roos, Gilles Lortet, Lars Paulin, and Kristina Lindström

Identification and Structure of the Rhizobium galegae Common Nodulation Genes: Evidence for Horizontal Gene Transfer
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 907-916. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. McClellan and Kevin G. McCracken

Estimating the Influence of Selection on the Variable Amino Acid Sites of the Cytochrome b Protein Functional Domains
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 917-925. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stéphane Boissinot, Ali Entezam, and Anthony V. Furano

Selection Against Deleterious LINE-1-Containing Loci in the Human Lineage
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 926-935. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katarina Andreasen and Bruce G. Baldwin

Unequal Evolutionary Rates Between Annual and Perennial Lineages of Checker Mallows (Sidalcea, Malvaceae): Evidence from 18S–26S rDNA Internal and External Transcribed Spacers
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 936-944. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jaw-Ching Liu, Kateryna D. Makova, Ronald M. Adkins, Susan Gibson, and Wen-Hsiung Li

Episodic Evolution of Growth Hormone in Primates and Emergence of the Species Specificity of Human Growth Hormone Receptor
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 945-953. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David J. Lampe, Kimberley K. O. Walden, and Hugh M. Robertson

Loss of Transposase-DNA Interaction May Underlie the Divergence of mariner Family Transposable Elements and the Ability of More than One mariner to Occupy the Same Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 954-961. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kurt Wollenberg and Jonathan C. Swaffield

Evolution of Proteasomal ATPases
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 962-974. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

O. Mokady and I. Brickner

Host-Associated Speciation in a Coral-Inhabiting Barnacle
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 975-981. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick G. C. Smith and Adam Eyre-Walker

Synonymous Codon Bias Is Not Caused by Mutation Bias in G+C-Rich Genes in Humans
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 982-986. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gareth M. Jenkins, Michael Worobey, Christopher H. Woelk, and Edward C. Holmes

Evidence for the Non-quasispecies Evolution of RNA Viruses
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 987-994. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sung-Oui Suh, Hiroaki Noda, and Meredith Blackwell

Insect Symbiosis: Derivation of Yeast-like Endosymbionts Within an Entomopathogenic Filamentous Lineage
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 995-1000. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marc A. Suchard, Robert E. Weiss, and Janet S. Sinsheimer

Bayesian Selection of Continuous-Time Markov Chain Evolutionary Models
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1001-1013. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Hancock, Elizabeth A. Worthey, and Mauro F. Santibáñez-Koref

A Role for Selection in Regulating the Evolutionary Emergence of Disease-Causing and Other Coding CAG Repeats in Humans and Mice
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1014-1023. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin C. Conant and Paul O. Lewis

Effects of Nucleotide Composition Bias on the Success of the Parsimony Criterion in Phylogenetic Inference
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1024-1033. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joel B. Dacks, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Shigeharu Moriya, Toshiaki Kudo, Moriya Ohkuma, and Rosemary J. Redfield

Oxymonads Are Closely Related to the Excavate Taxon Trimastix
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1034-1044. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Agustí Munte, Montserrat Aguade, and Carmen Segarra

Changes in the Recombinational Environment Affect Divergence in the yellow Gene of Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1045-1056. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah L. Boyer, Valerie R. Flechtner, and Jeffrey R. Johansen

Is the 16S–23S rRNA Internal Transcribed Spacer Region a Good Tool for Use in Molecular Systematics and Population Genetics? A Case Study in Cyanobacteria
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1057-1069. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bing Su, Yunxin Fu, Yingxiang Wang, Li Jin, and Ranajit Chakraborty

Genetic Diversity and Population History of the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) as Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variations
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1070-1076. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tatiana Zerjal, Lars Beckman, Gunhild Beckman, Aavo-Valdur Mikelsaar, Astrida Krumina, Vaidutis Kucinskas, Matthew E. Hurles, and Chris Tyler-Smith

Geographical, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences on Genetic Diversity: Y-Chromosomal Distribution in Northern European Populations
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1077-1087. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares, John W. Fleeger, and David W. Foltz

Decoupling of Molecular and Morphological Evolution in Deep Lineages of a Meiobenthic Harpacticoid Copepod
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1088-1102. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Vincent Ranwez and Olivier Gascuel

Quartet-Based Phylogenetic Inference: Improvements and Limits
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1103-1116. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ana Sanchis, Jose M. Michelena, Amparo Latorre, Donald L. J. Quicke, Ulf Gärdenfors, and Robert Belshaw

The Phylogenetic Analysis of Variable-Length Sequence Data: Elongation Factor–1 Introns in European Populations of the Parasitoid Wasp Genus Pauesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1117-1131. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Lada Markovtsova, Paul Marjoram, and Simon Tavare

On a Test of Depaulis and Veuille
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1132-1133. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeffrey D. Wall and Richard R. Hudson

Coalescent Simulations and Statistical Tests of Neutrality
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1134-1135. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frantz Depaulis, Sylvain Mousset, and Michel Veuille

Haplotype Tests Using Coalescent Simulations Conditional on the Number of Segregating Sites
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1136-1138. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephanie M. Fullerton, Antonio Bernardo Carvalho, and Andrew G. Clark

Local Rates of Recombination Are Positively Correlated with GC Content in the Human Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1139-1142. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dan Graur and Tal Pupko

The Permian Bacterium that Isn't
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1143-1146. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Pilar Francino and Howard Ochman

Deamination as the Basis of Strand-Asymmetric Evolution in Transcribed Escherichia coli Sequences
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1147-1150. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melanie Culver, Marilyn A. Menotti-Raymond, and Stephen J. O'Brien

Patterns of Size Homoplasy at 10 Microsatellite Loci in Pumas (Puma concolor)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1151-1156. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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