Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

D. C. Hoyle and P. G. Higgs

Factors Affecting the Errors in the Estimation of Evolutionary Distances Between Sequences
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1-9. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick G. C. Smith and Adam Eyre-Walker

Partitioning the Variation in Mammalian Substitution Rates
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 10-17. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Willie J. Swanson, Rasmus Nielsen, and Qiaofeng Yang

Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Mammalian Fertilization Proteins
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 18-20. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  [Request Permissions]  

Alberto Civetta

Positive Selection Within Sperm-Egg Adhesion Domains of Fertilin: An ADAM Gene with a Potential Role in Fertilization
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 21-29; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg002 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard J. Edwards and John F. Y. Brookfield

Transiently Beneficial Insertions Could Maintain Mobile DNA Sequences in Variable Environments
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 30-37; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vladimir V. Kapitonov and Jerzy Jurka

The Esterase and PHD Domains in CR1-Like Non-LTR Retrotransposons
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 38-46; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg011 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nick G. C. Smith, Matthew T. Webster, and Hans Ellegren

A Low Rate of Simultaneous Double-Nucleotide Mutations in Primates
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 47-53; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg003 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nadeena R. Beck, Michael C. Double, and Andrew Cockburn

Microsatellite Evolution at Two Hypervariable Loci Revealed by Extensive Avian Pedigrees
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 54-61; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg005 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Archibald, David Longet, Jan Pawlowski, and Patrick J. Keeling

A Novel Polyubiquitin Structure in Cercozoa and Foraminifera: Evidence for a New Eukaryotic Supergroup
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 62-66; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg006 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chaoyang Cheng, Reiko Motohashi, Suguru Tsuchimoto, Yoshimichi Fukuta, Hisako Ohtsubo, and Eiichi Ohtsubo

Polyphyletic Origin of Cultivated Rice: Based on the Interspersion Pattern of SINEs
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 67-75; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg004 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas Ray, Mathias Currat, and Laurent Excoffier

Intra-Deme Molecular Diversity in Spatially Expanding Populations
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 76-86; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg009 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atsushi Kawakita, Teiji Sota, John S. Ascher, Masao Ito, Hiroyuki Tanaka, and Makoto Kato

Evolution and Phylogenetic Utility of Alignment Gaps Within Intron Sequences of Three Nuclear Genes in Bumble Bees (Bombus)
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 87-92; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg007 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  [Request Permissions]  

Jacques-Edouard Germond, Luciane Lapierre, Michèle Delley, Beat Mollet, Giovanna E. Felis, and Franco Dellaglio

Evolution of the Bacterial Species Lactobacillus delbrueckii: A Partial Genomic Study with Reflections on Prokaryotic Species Concept
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 93-104; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg012 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rachael A. Ream, Glenn C. Johns, and George N. Somero

Base Compositions of Genes Encoding -Actin and Lactate Dehydrogenase-A from Differently Adapted Vertebrates Show No Temperature-Adaptive Variation in G + C Content
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 105-110; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg008 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  [Request Permissions]  

Teun van Rheede, Marcel M. W. Smolenaars, Ole Madsen, and Wilfried W. de Jong

Molecular Evolution of the Mammalian Prion Protein
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 111-121; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg014 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. Susanna Twiddy, Edward C. Holmes, and Andrew Rambaut

Inferring the Rate and Time-Scale of Dengue Virus Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 122-129; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg010 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Ender and Bernd Schierwater

Placozoa Are Not Derived Cnidarians: Evidence from Molecular Morphology
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 130-134; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg018 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel N. Lerman, Pawel Michalak, Amanda B. Helin, Brian R. Bettencourt, and Martin E. Feder

Modification of Heat-Shock Gene Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Populations via Transposable Elements
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 135-144; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg015 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefanie Marx, Maja Baumgärtner, Sivakumar Kunnan, Hans-Peter Braun, B. Franz Lang, and Gertraud Burger

Structure of the bc₁ Complex from Seculamonas ecuadoriensis, a Jakobid Flagellate with an Ancestral Mitochondrial Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 145-153; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg016 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Friedman and Austin L. Hughes

The Temporal Distribution of Gene Duplication Events in a Set of Highly Conserved Human Gene Families
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 154-161; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg017 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

The Emerging Limbs and Twigs of the East Asian mtDNA Tree
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 162. [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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