Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Pietro Liò

Investigating the Relationship Between Genome Structure, Composition, and Ecology in Prokaryotes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 789-800. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katrin Henschel, Rumiko Kofuji, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Heinz Saedler, Thomas Münster, and Günter Theißen

Two Ancient Classes of MIKC-type MADS-box Genes are Present in the Moss Physcomitrella patens
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 801-814. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Fabrice Dupuy, Agnès Germot, Mickaël Marenda, Rafaël Oriol, Antoine Blancher, Raymond Julien, and Abderrahman Maftah

1,4-Fucosyltransferase Activity: A Significant Function in the Primate Lineage has Appeared Twice Independently
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 815-824. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. E. Steinbachs and K. E. Holsinger

S-RNase–mediated Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility is Ancestral in Eudicots
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 825-829. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Joel B. Dacks, Alexandra Marinets, W. Ford Doolittle, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, and John M. Logsdon, Jr

Analyses of RNA Polymerase II Genes from Free-Living Protists: Phylogeny, Long Branch Attraction, and the Eukaryotic Big Bang
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 830-840. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. L. Roehrdanz, M. E. Degrugillier, and W. C. Black, IV

Novel Rearrangements of Arthropod Mitochondrial DNA Detected with Long-PCR: Applications to Arthropod Phylogeny and Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 841-849. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José-Luis Costa, Per Paulsrud, and Peter Lindblad

The Cyanobacterial tRNA^Leu (UAA) Intron: Evolutionary Patterns in a Genetic Marker
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 850-857. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Thomas F. Duda, Jr., Damien Vanhoye, and Pierre Nicolas

Roles of Diversifying Selection and Coordinated Evolution in the Evolution of Amphibian Antimicrobial Peptides
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 858-864. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Vera Klett and Axel Meyer

What, if Anything, is a Tilapia?—Mitochondrial ND2 Phylogeny of Tilapiines and the Evolution of Parental Care Systems in the African Cichlid Fishes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 865-883. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Hans Ackerman, Irina Udalova, Jeremy Hull, and Dominic Kwiatkowski

Evolution of a Polymorphic Regulatory Element in Interferon- Through Transposition and Mutation
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 884-890. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeannette Krieger and Paul A. Fuerst

Evidence for a Slowed Rate of Molecular Evolution in the Order Acipenseriformes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 891-897. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Dmitry A. Filatov and Deborah Charlesworth

Substitution Rates in the X- and Y-Linked Genes of the Plants, Silene latifolia and S. dioica
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 898-907. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ziheng Yang and Rasmus Nielsen

Codon-Substitution Models for Detecting Molecular Adaptation at Individual Sites Along Specific Lineages
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 908-917. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kevin Thornton and Manyuan Long

Rapid Divergence of Gene Duplicates on the Drosophila melanogaster X Chromosome
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 918-925. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carolina Bartolomé, Xulio Maside, and Brian Charlesworth

On the Abundance and Distribution of Transposable Elements in the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 926-937. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carrie-Ann Whittle and Mark O. Johnston

Male-Driven Evolution of Mitochondrial and Chloroplastidial DNA Sequences in Plants
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 938-949. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Maria Anisimova, Joseph P. Bielawski, and Ziheng Yang

Accuracy and Power of Bayes Prediction of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 950-958. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Marcia C. Haigis, Eric S. Haag, and Ronald T. Raines

Evolution of Ribonuclease Inhibitor by Exon Duplication
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 959-963. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emmanuelle Lerat, Pierre Capy, and Christian Biémont

The Relative Abundance of Dinucleotides in Transposable Elements in Five Species
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 964-967. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ana Sara Monteiro, Beth Okamura, and Peter W. H. Holland

Orphan Worm Finds a Home: Buddenbrockia is a Myxozoan
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 968-971. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Eric Bapteste and Hervé Philippe

The Potential Value of Indels as Phylogenetic Markers: Position of Trichomonads as a Case Study
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 972-977. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Virginia P. Edgcomb, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Linda Amaral Zettler, Thomas. A. Nerad, David J. Patterson, Michael E. Holder, and Mitchell L. Sogin

Pelobionts are Degenerate Protists: Insights from Molecules and Morphology
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 978-982. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adriana D. Briscoe

Homology Modeling Suggests a Functional Role for Parallel Amino Acid Substitutions Between Bee and Butterfly Red- and Green-Sensitive Opsins
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 983-986. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 987. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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