Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

P. Lopez, D. Casane, and H. Philippe

Heterotachy, an Important Process of Protein Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1-7. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Tobias Müller, Rainer Spang, and Martin Vingron

Estimating Amino Acid Substitution Models: A Comparison of Dayhoff's Estimator, the Resolvent Approach and a Maximum Likelihood Method
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 8-13. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark P. Simmons, Christopher P. Randle, John V. Freudenstein, and John W. Wenzel

Limitations of Relative Apparent Synapomorphy Analysis (RASA) for Measuring Phylogenetic Signal
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 14-23. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, and Claude Lemieux

The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of Mesostigma viride Identifies This Green Alga as the Earliest Green Plant Divergence and Predicts a Highly Compact Mitochondrial Genome in the Ancestor of All Green Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 24-38. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Eduardo Villalobo, Loïc Morin, Clara Moch, Rachel Lescasse, Michelle Hanna, Wei Xiao, and Anne Baroin-Tourancheau

A Homologue of CROC-1 in a Ciliated Protist (Sterkiella histriomuscorum) Testifies to the Ancient Origin of the Ubiquitin-conjugating Enzyme Variant Family
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 39-48. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ziheng Yang and Willie J. Swanson

Codon-Substitution Models to Detect Adaptive Evolution that Account for Heterogeneous Selective Pressures Among Site Classes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 49-57. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Xuhua Xia and Zheng Xie

Protein Structure, Neighbor Effect, and a New Index of Amino Acid Dissimilarities
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 58-67. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alejandro P. Rooney, Helen Piontkivska, and Masatoshi Nei

Molecular Evolution of the Nontandemly Repeated Genes of the Histone 3 Multigene Family
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 68-75. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Erik Richly, Joachim Kurth, and Dario Leister

Mode of Amplification and Reorganization of Resistance Genes During Recent Arabidopsis thaliana Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 76-84. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Ellis Hudson, Ulfar Bergthorsson, John R. Roth, and Howard Ochman

Effect of Chromosome Location on Bacterial Mutation Rates
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 85-92. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Link E. Olson and Anne D. Yoder

Using Secondary Structure to Identify Ribosomal Numts: Cautionary Examples from the Human Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 93-100. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Sanderson

Estimating Absolute Rates of Molecular Evolution and Divergence Times: A Penalized Likelihood Approach
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 101-109. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos D. Bustamante, Rasmus Nielsen, and Daniel L. Hartl

A Maximum Likelihood Method for Analyzing Pseudogene Evolution: Implications for Silent Site Evolution in Humans and Rodents
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 110-117. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Purificación López-García, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera, and David Moreira

Toward the Monophyly of Haeckel's Radiolaria: 18S rRNA Environmental Data Support the Sisterhood of Polycystinea and Acantharea
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 118-121. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne-Céline Thuillet, David Bru, Jacques David, Pierre Roumet, Sylvain Santoni, Pierre Sourdille, and Thomas Bataillon

Direct Estimation of Mutation Rate for 10 Microsatellite Loci in Durum Wheat, Triticum turgidum (L.) Thell. ssp durum desf
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 122-125. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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