Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Michael Worobey

A Novel Approach to Detecting and Measuring Recombination: New Insights into Evolution in Viruses, Bacteria, and Mitochondria
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1425-1434. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas Wicker, Guy René Perrin, Jean Claude Thierry, and Olivier Poch

Secator: A Program for Inferring Protein Subfamilies from Phylogenetic Trees
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1435-1441. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Dmitry A. Filatov, Valerie Laporte, Clementine Vitte, and Deborah Charlesworth

DNA Diversity in Sex-Linked and Autosomal Genes of the Plant Species Silene latifolia and Silene dioica
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1442-1454. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Andrew G. McArthur, Leigh A. Knodler, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Barbara J. Davids, Frances D. Gillin, and Mitchell L. Sogin

The Evolutionary Origins of Eukaryotic Protein Disulfide Isomerase Domains: New Evidence from the Amitochondriate Protist Giardia lamblia
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1455-1463. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosa Tarrío, Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles, and Francisco J. Ayala

Shared Nucleotide Composition Biases Among Species and Their Impact on Phylogenetic Reconstructions of the Drosophilidae
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1464-1473. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Young-An Bae, Seo-Yun Moon, Yoon Kong, Seung-Yull Cho, and Mun-Gan Rhyu

CsRn1, a Novel Active Retrotransposon in a Parasitic Trematode, Clonorchis sinensis, Discloses a New Phylogenetic Clade of Ty3/gypsy-like LTR Retrotransposons
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1474-1483. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. T. Williams and N. Knowlton

Mitochondrial Pseudogenes Are Pervasive and Often Insidious in the Snapping Shrimp Genus Alpheus
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1484-1493. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cole W. Matson and Robert J. Baker

DNA Sequence Variation in the Mitochondrial Control Region of Red-Backed Voles (Clethrionomys)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1494-1501. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

William R. Atchley, Tatiana Lokot, Kurt Wollenberg, Andreas Dress, and Hermann Ragg

Phylogenetic Analyses of Amino Acid Variation in the Serpin Proteins
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1502-1511. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marshal C. Hedin and Wayne P. Maddison

Phylogenetic Utility and Evidence for Multiple Copies of Elongation Factor-1 in the Spider Genus Habronattus (Araneae: Salticidae)
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1512-1521. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Etsuo Yamamoto and Halina T. Knap

Soybean Receptor-like Protein Kinase Genes: Paralogous Divergence of a Gene Family
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1522-1531. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. I. Galindo, Y. Bigot, M. D. Sánchez, G. Periquet, and L. Pascual

Sequences Homologous to the hobo Transposable Element in E Strains of Drosophila melanogaster
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1532-1539. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen L. Carleton and Thomas D. Kocher

Cone Opsin Genes of African Cichlid Fishes: Tuning Spectral Sensitivity by Differential Gene Expression
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1540-1550. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick J. Keeling

Foraminifera and Cercozoa Are Related in Actin Phylogeny: Two Orphans Find a Home?
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1551-1557. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zhaoduo Zhang, T. Cavalier-Smith, and B. R. Green

A Family of Selfish Minicircular Chromosomes with Jumbled Chloroplast Gene Fragments from a Dinoflagellate
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1558-1565. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kristina Kusche and Thorsten Burmester

Diplopod Hemocyanin Sequence and the Phylogenetic Position of the Myriapoda
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1566-1573. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Delphine Gerbod, Virginia P. Edgcomb, Christophe Noël, Stepánka Vanacova, René Wintjens, Jan Tachezy, Mitchell L. Sogin, and Eric Viscogliosi

Phylogenetic Relationships of Class II Fumarase Genes from Trichomonad Species
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1574-1584. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria Anisimova, Joseph P. Bielawski, and Ziheng Yang

Accuracy and Power of the Likelihood Ratio Test in Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1585-1592. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Neil Howell, Corinna Herrnstadt, and David A. Mackey

Different Patterns of Expansion/Contraction During the Evolution of an mtDNA Simple Repeat
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1593-1596. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos Lloréns and Ignacio Marín

A Mammalian Gene Evolved from the Integrase Domain of an LTR Retrotransposon
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1597-1600. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mineyo Iwase, Yoko Satta, and Naoyuki Takahata

Sex-Chromosomal Differentiation and Amelogenin Genes in Mammals
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1601-1603. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy A. Rawlings, Timothy M. Collins, and Rüdiger Bieler

A Major Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangement Among Closely Related Species
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1604-1609. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2001 18: 1610. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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