Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Hsiao-wei Kao and Sin-Che Lee

Phosphoglucose Isomerases of Hagfish, Zebrafish, Gray Mullet, Toad, and Snake, with Reference to the Evolution of the Genes in Vertebrates
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 367-374. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary information]  [Request Permissions]  

Philippe R. Desjardins, James M. Burkman, Joseph B. Shrager, Leonard A. Allmond, and Hansell H. Stedman

Evolutionary Implications of Three Novel Members of the Human Sarcomeric Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Family
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 375-393. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Thomas R. Buckley and Clifford W. Cunningham

The Effects of Nucleotide Substitution Model Assumptions on Estimates of Nonparametric Bootstrap Support
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 394-405. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iraj Daizadeh, Dmitry M. Medvedev, and Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov

Electron Transfer in Ferredoxin: Are Tunneling Pathways Evolutionarily Conserved?
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 406-415. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Thorsten Burmester, Bettina Ebner, Bettina Weich, and Thomas Hankeln

Cytoglobin: A Novel Globin Type Ubiquitously Expressed inVertebrate Tissues
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 416-421. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Archibald, Charles J. O'Kelly, and W. Ford Doolittle

The Chaperonin Genes of Jakobid and Jakobid-Like Flagellates: Implications for Eukaryotic Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 422-431. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pierre Darlu and Guillaume Lecointre

When Does the Incongruence Length Difference Test Fail?
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 432-437. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jianzhi Zhang and Helene F. Rosenberg

Diversifying Selection of the Tumor-Growth Promoter Angiogenin in Primate Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 438-445. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas E. Dowling, David P. Martasian, and William R. Jeffery

Evidence for Multiple Genetic Forms with Similar Eyeless Phenotypes in the Blind Cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 446-455. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Urban Johanson and Sofia Gustavsson

A New Subfamily of Major Intrinsic Proteins in Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 456-461. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Robert C. Karn, Annie Orth, François Bonhomme, and Pierre Boursot

The Complex History of a Gene Proposed to Participate in a Sexual Isolation Mechanism in House Mice
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 462-471. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlos A. Machado, Richard M. Kliman, Jeffrey A. Markert, and Jody Hey

Inferring the History of Speciation from Multilocus DNA Sequence Data: The Case of Drosophila pseudoobscura and Close Relatives
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 472-488. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zhaoduo Zhang, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, and Beverley R. Green

Evolution of Dinoflagellate Unigenic Minicircles and the Partially Concerted Divergence of Their Putative Replicon Origins
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 489-500. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshiyuki Suzuki and Masatoshi Nei

Origin and Evolution of Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Genes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 501-509. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie-Josée Daboussi, Jean-Michel Davière, Stéphane Graziani, and Thierry Langin

Evolution of the Fot1 Transposons in the Genus Fusarium: Discontinuous Distribution and Epigenetic Inactivation
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 510-520. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Toshinori Endo, Alexei Fedorov, Sandro J. de Souza, and Walter Gilbert

Do Introns Favor or Avoid Regions of Amino Acid Conservation?
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 521-252. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Javier Costas

Characterization of the Intragenomic Spread of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family HERV-W
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 526-533. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Stéphane Guindon and Olivier Gascuel

Efficient Biased Estimation of Evolutionary Distances When Substitution Rates Vary Across Sites
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 534-543. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jürgen Schmitz, Martina Ohme, and Hans Zischler

The Complete Mitochondrial Sequence of Tarsius bancanus: Evidence for an Extensive Nucleotide Compositional Plasticity of Primate Mitochondrial DNA
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 544-553. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Gary W. Stuart, Karen Moffett, and Jeffery J. Leader

A Comprehensive Vertebrate Phylogeny Using Vector Representations of Protein Sequences from Whole Genomes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 554-562. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian Schlötterer and Martin Agis

Microsatellite Analysis of Drosophila melanogaster Populations Along a Microclimatic Contrast at Lower Nahel Oren Canyon, Mount Carmel, Israel
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 563-568. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Eric A. Gaucher, Ujjwal K. Das, Michael M. Miyamoto, and Steven A. Benner

The Crystal Structure of eEF1A Refines the Functional Predictions of an Evolutionary Analysis of Rate Changes Among Elongation Factors
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 569-573. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yohey Terai, Naoko Morikawa, Koichi Kawakami, and Norihiro Okada

Accelerated Evolution of the Surface Amino Acids in the WD-Repeat Domain Encoded by the hagoromo Gene in an Explosively Speciated Lineage of East African Cichlid Fishes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 574-578. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jorge Vieira

Two Divergent Species of the Virilis Group, Drosophila littoralis and Drosophila virilis, Share a Replacement Polymorphism at the fused Locus
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 579-581. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Xiaoxia Wang, Jianzhi Zhang, and Ya-ping Zhang

Erratic Evolution of SRY in Higher Primates
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 582-584. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 585. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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