Molecular Biology and Evolution

Editorials:

Simon Easteal

Editor's Report for June 2001—May 2002
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2353-2354. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Ignacio Marín and Alberto Ferrús

Comparative Genomics of the RBR Family, Including the Parkinson's Disease–Related Gene Parkin and the Genes of the Ariadne Subfamily
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2039-2050. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

B. R. Holland, K. T. Huber, A. Dress, and V. Moulton

Plots: A Tool for Analyzing Phylogenetic Distance Data
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2051-2059. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yu-Hsin Lin, Patricia A. McLenachan, Alicia R. Gore, Matthew J. Phillips, Rissa Ota, Michael D. Hendy, and David Penny

Four New Mitochondrial Genomes and the Increased Stability of Evolutionary Trees of Mammals from Improved Taxon Sampling
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2060-2070. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alastair G. B. Simpson, Julius Lukes, and Andrew J. Roger

The Evolutionary History of Kinetoplastids and Their Kinetoplasts
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2071-2083. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshihiro Matsuoka, Yukiko Yamazaki, Yasunari Ogihara, and Koichiro Tsunewaki

Whole Chloroplast Genome Comparison of Rice, Maize, and Wheat: Implications for Chloroplast Gene Diversification and Phylogeny of Cereals
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2084-2091. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Sebastian E. Ramos-Onsins and Julio Rozas

Statistical Properties of New Neutrality Tests Against Population Growth
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2092-2100. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Claudianos, Jeremy Brownlie, Robyn Russell, John Oakeshott, and Steven Whyard

maT—A Clade of Transposons Intermediate Between mariner and Tc1
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2101-2109. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernard Couvreur, Rudy Wattiez, Alex Bollen, Paul Falmagne, Dominique Le Ray, and Jean-Claude Dujardin

Eubacterial HslV and HslU Subunits Homologs in Primordial Eukaryotes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2110-2117. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Camilla Looman, Magnus Åbrink, Charlotta Mark, and Lars Hellman

KRAB Zinc Finger Proteins: An Analysis of the Molecular Mechanisms Governing Their Increase in Numbers and Complexity During Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2118-2130. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ning Yu, Yun-Xin Fu, and Wen-Hsiung Li

DNA Polymorphism in a Worldwide Sample of Human X Chromosomes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2131-2141. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adam Eyre-Walker, Peter D. Keightley, Nick G. C. Smith, and Daniel Gaffney

Quantifying the Slightly Deleterious Mutation Model of Molecular Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2142-2149. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ole Madsen, Diederik Willemsen, Björn M. Ursing, Ulfur Arnason, and Wilfried W. de Jong

Molecular Evolution of the Mammalian Alpha 2B Adrenergic Receptor
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2150-2160. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

P. Presa, B. G. Pardo, Paulino Martínez, and L. Bernatchez

Phylogeographic Congruence Between mtDNA and rDNA ITS Markers in Brown Trout
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2161-2175. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margarita Beltrán, Chris D. Jiggins, Vanessa Bull, Mauricio Linares, James Mallet, W. Owen McMillan, and Eldredge Bermingham

Phylogenetic Discordance at the Species Boundary: Comparative Gene Genealogies Among Rapidly Radiating Heliconius Butterflies
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2176-2190. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Soojin Yi, Darrell L. Ellsworth, and Wen-Hsiung Li

Slow Molecular Clocks in Old World Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2191-2198. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yugo Acimovic and Imogen R. Coe

Molecular Evolution of the Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter Family: Identification of Novel Family Members in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2199-2210. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Justin P. Blumenstiel, Daniel L. Hartl, and Elena R. Lozovsky

Patterns of Insertion and Deletion in Contrasting Chromatin Domains
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2211-2225. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Peter Gogarten, W. Ford Doolittle, and Jeffrey G. Lawrence

Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2226-2238. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeroen Roelofs and Peter J. M. Van Haastert

Deducing the Origin of Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase, a Gene Lost in Multiple Lineages
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2239-2246. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mariacristina Chioda, Ragnhild Eskeland, and Eric M. Thompson

Histone Gene Complement, Variant Expression, and mRNA Processing in a Urochordate Oikopleura dioica that Undergoes Extensive Polyploidization
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2247-2260. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Galice Hoarau, Suzanne Holla, Rachel Lescasse, Wytze T. Stam, and Jeanine L. Olsen

Heteroplasmy and Evidence for Recombination in the Mitochondrial Control Region of the Flatfish Platichthys flesus
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2261-2264. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Otto G. Berg and C. G. Kurland

Evolution of Microbial Genomes: Sequence Acquisition and Loss
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2265-2276. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Eric Bonnivard, Claude Bazin, and Dominique Higuet

High Polymorphism of TPE Repeats Within Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster: A Gradient of the 5TPE hobo Element in Western Europe
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2277-2284. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Néstor Santiago, Cristina Herráiz, J. Ramón Goñi, Xavier Messeguer, and Josep M. Casacuberta

Genome-wide Analysis of the Emigrant Family of MITEs of Arabidopsis thaliana
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2285-2293. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tal Pupko, Dorothée Huchon, Ying Cao, Norihiro Okada, and Masami Hasegawa

Combining Multiple Data Sets in a Likelihood Analysis: Which Models are the Best?
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2294-2307. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jürgen Schmitz, Martina Ohme, Bambang Suryobroto, and Hans Zischler

The Colugo (Cynocephalus variegatus, Dermoptera): The Primates' Gliding Sister?
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2308-2312. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Maria Navajas, Y. Le Conte, M. Solignac, S. Cros-Arteil, and J.-M. Cornuet

The Complete Sequence of the Mitochondrial Genome of the Honeybee Ectoparasite Mite Varroa destructor (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2313-2317. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Takao Kasuga, Thomas J. White, and John W. Taylor

Estimation of Nucleotide Substitution Rates in Eurotiomycete Fungi
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2318-2324. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

K. Lariviere, L. MacEachern, V. Greco, G. Majchrzak, S. Chiu, G. Drouin, and V. L. Trudeau

GAD₆₅ and GAD₆₇ Isoforms of the Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Gene Originated Before the Divergence of Cartilaginous Fishes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2325-2329. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Maynard Smith and N. H. Smith

Recombination in Animal Mitochondrial DNA
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2330-2332. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher H. Woelk and Edward C. Holmes

Reduced Positive Selection in Vector-Borne RNA Viruses
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2333-2336. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Xue-Mei Lü, Yun-Xin Fu, and Ya-Ping Zhang

Evolution of Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Pseudogene in Genus Nycticebus
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2337-2341. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Karl C. Diller, William A. Gilbert, and Thomas D. Kocher

Selective Sweeps in the Human Genome: A Starting Point for Identifying Genetic Differences Between Modern Humans and Chimpanzees
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2342-2345. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan F. Wendel, Richard C. Cronn, Ines Alvarez, Bao Liu, Randall L. Small, and David S. Senchina

Intron Size and Genome Size in Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2346-2352. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Council and Business Meetings, 2002
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 2355-2356. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2000 19: 2361. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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