Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Dawn J. Brooks, Jacques R. Fresco, Arthur M. Lesk, and Mona Singh

Evolution of Amino Acid Frequencies in Proteins Over Deep Time: Inferred Order of Introduction of Amino Acids into the Genetic Code
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1645-1655. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frédéric Delsuc, Mark Scally, Ole Madsen, Michael J. Stanhope, Wilfried W. de Jong, François M. Catzeflis, Mark S. Springer, and Emmanuel J. P. Douzery

Molecular Phylogeny of Living Xenarthrans and the Impact of Character and Taxon Sampling on the Placental Tree Rooting
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1656-1671. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Cristina Grande, José Templado, J. Lucas Cervera, and Rafael Zardoya

The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Nudibranch Roboastra europaea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) Supports the Monophyly of Opisthobranchs
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1672-1685. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Rachel Urwin, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew J. Fox, Jeremy P. Derrick, and Martin C. J. Maiden

Phylogenetic Evidence for Frequent Positive Selection and Recombination in the Meningococcal Surface Antigen PorB
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1686-1694. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben J. Mans, Abraham I. Louw, and Albert W. H. Neitz

Evolution of Hematophagy in Ticks: Common Origins for Blood Coagulation and Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors from Soft Ticks of the Genus Ornithodoros
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1695-1705. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy G. Barraclough and Alfried P. Vogler

Recent Diversification Rates in North American Tiger Beetles Estimated from a Dated mtDNA Phylogenetic Tree
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1706-1716. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew J. Brauer, Mark T. Holder, Laurie A. Dries, Derrick J. Zwickl, Paul O. Lewis, and David M. Hillis

Genetic Algorithms and Parallel Processing in Maximum-Likelihood Phylogeny Inference
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1717-1726. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Koichiro Tamura and Sudhir Kumar

Evolutionary Distance Estimation Under Heterogeneous Substitution Pattern Among Lineages
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1727-1736. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Toomas Kivisild, Helle-Viivi Tolk, Jüri Parik, Yiming Wang, Surinder S. Papiha, Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, and Richard Villems

The Emerging Limbs and Twigs of the East Asian mtDNA Tree
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1737-1751. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ji Yang, Jinxia Huang, Hongya Gu, Yang Zhong, and Ziheng Yang

Duplication and Adaptive Evolution of the Chalcone Synthase Genes of Dendranthema (Asteraceae)
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1752-1759. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas Wagner

Asymmetric Functional Divergence of Duplicate Genes in Yeast
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1760-1768. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sean W. Graham, Richard G. Olmstead, and Spencer C. H. Barrett

Rooting Phylogenetic Trees with Distant Outgroups: A Case Study from the Commelinoid Monocots
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1769-1781. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alastair G. B. Simpson, Andrew J. Roger, Jeffrey D. Silberman, Detlef D. Leipe, Virginia P. Edgcomb, Lars S. Jermiin, David J. Patterson, and Mitchell L. Sogin

Evolutionary History of "Early-Diverging" Eukaryotes: The Excavate Taxon Carpediemonas is a Close Relative of Giardia
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1782-1791. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Jose Galián, James E. Hogan, and Alfried P. Vogler

The Origin of Multiple Sex Chromosomes in Tiger Beetles
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1792-1796. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Özkan, A. Brandolini, R. Schäfer-Pregl, and F. Salamini

AFLP Analysis of a Collection of Tetraploid Wheats Indicates the Origin of Emmer and Hard Wheat Domestication in Southeast Turkey
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1797-1801. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susana Seixas, Nuno Ferrand, and Jorge Rocha

Microsatellite Variation and Evolution of the Human Duffy Blood Group Polymorphism
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1802-1806. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tohru Sugawara, Yohey Terai, and Norihiro Okada

Natural Selection of the Rhodopsin Gene During the Adaptive Radiation of East African Great Lakes Cichlid Fishes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1807-1811. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek E. Wildman, Wei Wu, Morris Goodman, and Lawrence I. Grossman

Episodic Positive Selection in Ape Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit IV
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1812-1815. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea J. Betancourt, Daven C. Presgraves, and Willie J. Swanson

A Test for Faster X Evolution in Drosophila
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1816-1819. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

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