Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Gabriel Marais and Gwenaël Piganeau

Hill-Robertson Interference is a Minor Determinant of Variations in Codon Bias Across Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans Genomes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1399-1406. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen I. Wright, Beatrice Lauga, and Deborah Charlesworth

Rates and Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Inbred and Outbred Arabidopsis
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1407-1420. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Xavier Bailly, Didier Jollivet, Stephano Vanin, Jean Deutsch, Franck Zal, François Lallier, and André Toulmond

Evolution of the Sulfide-Binding Function Within the Globin Multigenic Family of the Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm Riftia pachyptila
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1421-1433. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Truls Moum, Ulfur Arnason, and Einar Árnason

Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Evolution and Phylogeny of the Atlantic Alcidae, Including the Extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1434-1439. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hector Escriva, Lori Manzon, John Youson, and Vincent Laudet

Analysis of Lamprey and Hagfish Genes Reveals a Complex History of Gene Duplications During Early Vertebrate Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1440-1450. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rafael Oriol, Ivan Martinez-Duncker, Isabelle Chantret, Rosella Mollicone, and Patrice Codogno

Common Origin and Evolution of Glycosyltransferases Using Dol-P-monosaccharides as Donor Substrate
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1451-1463. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Liqing Zhang, Todd J. Vision, and Brandon S. Gaut

Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution Among Simultaneously Duplicated Gene Pairs in Arabidopsis thaliana
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1464-1473. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulf Lagercrantz, Marita Kruskopf Osterberg, and Martin Lascoux

Sequence Variation and Haplotype Structure at the Putative Flowering-Time Locus COL1 of Brassica nigra
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1474-1482. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Belinda S. W. Chang, Karolina Jönsson, Manija A. Kazmi, Michael J. Donoghue, and Thomas P. Sakmar

Recreating a Functional Ancestral Archosaur Visual Pigment
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1483-1489. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hongmin Sun, Srinivas Merugu, Xun Gu, Yuan Yuan Kang, Douglas P. Dickinson, Patrick Callaerts, and Wen-Hsiung Li

Identification of Essential Amino Acid Changes in Paired Domain Evolution Using a Novel Combination of Evolutionary Analysis and In Vitro and In Vivo Studies
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1490-1500. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colm O'hUigin, Yoko Satta, Naoyuki Takahata, and Jan Klein

Contribution of Homoplasy and of Ancestral Polymorphism to the Evolution of Genes in Anthropoid Primates
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1501-1513. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Susko, Yuji Inagaki, Chris Field, Michael E. Holder, and Andrew J. Roger

Testing for Differences in Rates-Across-Sites Distributions in Phylogenetic Subtrees
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1514-1523. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Naoyuki Iwabe and Takashi Miyata

Kinesin-Related Genes from Diplomonad, Sponge, Amphioxus, and Cyclostomes: Divergence Pattern of Kinesin Family and Evolution of Giardial Membrane–Bounded Organella
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1524-1533. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Schadt and Kenneth Lange

Codon and Rate Variation Models in Molecular Phylogeny
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1534-1549. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric E. Schadt, Janet S. Sinsheimer, and Kenneth Lange

Applications of Codon and Rate Variation Models in Molecular Phylogeny
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1550-1562. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David L. Remington and Michael D. Purugganan

GAI Homologues in the Hawaiian Silversword Alliance (Asteraceae-Madiinae): Molecular Evolution of Growth Regulators in a Rapidly Diversifying Plant Lineage
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1563-1574. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carmen Palacios and Jennifer J. Wernegreen

A Strong Effect of AT Mutational Bias on Amino Acid Usage in Buchnera is Mitigated at High-Expression Genes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1575-1584. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Somchai Jongwutiwes, Chaturong Putaporntip, Robert Friedman, and Austin L. Hughes

The Extent of Nucleotide Polymorphism is Highly Variable Across a 3-kb Region on Plasmodium falciparum Chromosome 2
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1585-1590. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Jow, C. Hudelot, M. Rattray, and P. G. Higgs

Bayesian Phylogenetics Using an RNA Substitution Model Applied to Early Mammalian Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1591-1601. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Ralph Regel, Tung Gia Du, Holger Hupfer, Reinhold G. Herrmann, and Rainer M. Maier

The Plastid Chromosome of Atropa belladonna and its Comparison with that of Nicotiana tabacum: The Role of RNA Editing in Generating Divergence in the Process of Plant Speciation
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1602-1612. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. D. Gottlieb and V. S. Ford

The 5' Leader of Plant PgiC has an Intron: The Leader Shows Both the Loss and Maintenance of Constraints Compared with Introns and Exons in the Coding Region
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1613-1623. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

L. G. S. R. Bauzer, J. S. M. Gesto, N. A. Souza, R. D. Ward, J. G. C. Hamilton, C. P. Kyriacou, and Alexandre A. Peixoto

Molecular Divergence in the period Gene Between Two Putative Sympatric Species of the Lutzomyia longipalpis Complex
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1624-1627. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Yohey Terai, Naoko Morikawa, and Norihiro Okada

The Evolution of the Pro-Domain of Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 (Bmp4) in an Explosively Speciated Lineage of East African Cichlid Fishes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1628-1632. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerald J. Wyckoff, Joyce Li, and Chung-I Wu

Molecular Evolution of Functional Genes on the Mammalian Y Chromosome
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1633-1636. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather Maughan, C. William Birky, Jr., Wayne L. Nicholson, William D. Rosenzweig, and Russell H. Vreeland

The Paradox of the "Ancient" Bacterium Which Contains "Modern" Protein-Coding Genes
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1637-1639. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francis M. Jiggins

The Rate of Recombination in Wolbachia Bacteria
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1640-1643. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Errata
Mol Biol Evol 2002 19: 1644. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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