Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Bernhard Haubold and Thomas Wiehe

Statistics of Divergence Times
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1157-1160. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mukund V. Katti, Prabhakar K. Ranjekar, and Vidya S. Gupta

Differential Distribution of Simple Sequence Repeats in Eukaryotic Genome Sequences
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1161-1167. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emmanuel D. Ladoukakis and Eleftherios Zouros

Direct Evidence for Homologous Recombination in Mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) Mitochondrial DNA
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1168-1175. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nikolai Friesen, Andrea Brandes, and John Seymour Pat Heslop-Harrison

Diversity, Origin, and Distribution of Retrotransposons (gypsy and copia) in Conifers
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1176-1188. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael F. Hammer, Tatiana M. Karafet, Alan J. Redd, Hamdi Jarjanazi, Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti, Himla Soodyall, and Stephen L. Zegura

Hierarchical Patterns of Global Human Y-Chromosome Diversity
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1189-1203. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kay Nieselt-Struwe and Arndt von Haeseler

Quartet-Mapping, a Generalization of the Likelihood-Mapping Procedure
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1204-1219. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Conrad A. Matthee and Scott K. Davis

Molecular Insights into the Evolution of the Family Bovidae: A Nuclear DNA Perspective
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1220-1230. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ivan Laprevotte, Maude Pupin, Eivind Coward, Gilles Didier, Christophe Terzian, Claudine Devauchelle, and Alain Hénaut

HIV-1 and HIV-2 LTR Nucleotide Sequences: Assessment of the Alignment by N-block Presentation, "Retroviral Signatures" of Overrepeated Oligonucleotides, and a Probable Important Role of Scrambled Stepwise Duplications/Deletions in Molecular Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1231-1245. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vassiliki Koufopanou, Austin Burt, Timothy Szaro, and John W. Taylor

Gene Genealogies, Cryptic Species, and Molecular Evolution in the Human Pathogen Coccidioides immitis and Relatives (Ascomycota, Onygenales)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1246-1258. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luísa Pereira, Isabelle Dupanloup, Zoë H. Rosser, Mark A. Jobling, and Guido Barbujani

Y-Chromosome Mismatch Distributions in Europe
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1259-1271. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian R. Bettencourt and Martin E. Feder

Hsp70 Duplication in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Group: How and When Did Two Become Five?
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1272-1282. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas Wagner

The Yeast Protein Interaction Network Evolves Rapidly and Contains Few Redundant Duplicate Genes
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1283-1292. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Nardi, Antonio Carapelli, Pietro Paolo Fanciulli, Romano Dallai, and Francesco Frati

The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Basal Hexapod Tetrodontophora bielanensis: Evidence for Heteroplasmy and tRNA Translocations
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1293-1304. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicole A. Graber and W. Ross Ellington

Gene Duplication Events Producing Muscle (M) and Brain (B) Isoforms of Cytoplasmic Creatine Kinase: cDNA and Deduced Amino Acid Sequences from Two Lower Chordates
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1305-1314. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, Brenda J. McDonald, Bette Willis, and David J. Miller

The Evolutionary History of the Coral Genus Acropora (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) Based on a Mitochondrial and a Nuclear Marker: Reticulation, Incomplete Lineage Sorting, or Morphological Convergence?
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1315-1329. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jessica R. Eberhard, Timothy F. Wright, and Eldredge Bermingham

Duplication and Concerted Evolution of the Mitochondrial Control Region in the Parrot Genus Amazona
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1330-1342. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

David J. Begun

The Frequency Distribution of Nucleotide Variation in Drosophila simulans
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1343-1352. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin J. Donnelly, Monica C. Licht, and Tovi Lehmann

Evidence for Recent Population Expansion in the Evolutionary History of the Malaria Vectors Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles gambiae
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1353-1364. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexei Drummond, Roald Forsberg, and Allen G. Rodrigo

The Inference of Stepwise Changes in Substitution Rates Using Serial Sequence Samples
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1365-1371. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer L. Riley and Laura A. Katz

Widespread Distribution of Extensive Chromosomal Fragmentation in Ciliates
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1372-1377. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yan Boucher, Harald Huber, Stéphane L'Haridon, Karl O. Stetter, and W. Ford Doolittle

Bacterial Origin for the Isoprenoid Biosynthesis Enzyme HMG-CoA Reductase of the Archaeal Orders Thermoplasmatales and Archaeoglobales
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1378-1388. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barry G. Hall

Predicting Evolutionary Potential. I. Predicting the Evolution of a Lactose-PTS System in Escherichia coli
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1389-1400. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward L. Braun and Erich Grotewold

Fungal Zuotin Proteins Evolved from MIDA1-like Factors by Lineage-Specific Loss of MYB Domains
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1401-1412. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Jeffrey L. Boore

Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Polychaete Annelid Platynereis dumerilii
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1413-1416. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank J. Turano, Ganesh R. Panta, Marc W. Allard, and Peter van Berkum

The Putative Glutamate Receptors from Plants Are Related to Two Superfamilies of Animal Neurotransmitter Receptors via Distinct Evolutionary Mechanisms
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1417-1420. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Celeste J. Brown, Ethan C. Garner, A. Keith Dunker, and Paul Joyce

The Power to Detect Recombination Using the Coalescent
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1421-1424. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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