Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Pär K. Ingvarsson, Sarah Ribstein, and Douglas R. Taylor

Molecular Evolution of Insertions and Deletion in the Chloroplast Genome of Silene
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1737-1740; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Charlesworth, Carolina Bartolomé, Mikkel H. Schierup, and Barbara K. Mable

Haplotype Structure of the Stigmatic Self-Incompatibility Gene in Natural Populations of Arabidopsis lyrata
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1741-1753; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg170 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simonetta Gribaldo, Didier Casane, Philippe Lopez, and Hervé Philippe

Functional Divergence Prediction from Evolutionary Analysis: A Case Study of Vertebrate Hemoglobin
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1754-1759; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg171 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Zoltán Bochdanovits, Herman van der Klis, and Gerdien de Jong

Covariation of Larval Gene Expression and Adult Body Size in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1760-1766; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg179 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jian-Min Chen, Zoltán Kukor, Cédric Le Maréchal, Miklós Tóth, Laurent Tsakiris, Odile Raguénès, Claude Férec, and Miklós Sahin-Tóth

Evolution of Trypsinogen Activation Peptides
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1767-1777; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Naoki Takebayashi, Philip B. Brewer, Ed Newbigin, and Marcy K. Uyenoyama

Patterns of Variation Within Self-Incompatibility Loci
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1778-1794; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg209 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hurng-Yi Wang, Hua Tang, C.-K. James Shen, and Chung-I Wu

Rapidly Evolving Genes in Human. I. The Glycophorins and Their Possible Role in Evading Malaria Parasites
MBE Advance Access published on August 29, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1795-1804; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg185 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas I. Mundy and Shelley Cook

Positive Selection During the Diversification of Class I Vomeronasal Receptor-like (V1RL) Genes, Putative Pheromone Receptor Genes, in Human and Primate Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1805-1810; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg192 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jim Biedler and Zhijian Tu

Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the African Malaria Mosquito, Anopheles gambiae: Unprecedented Diversity and Evidence of Recent Activity
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1811-1825; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg189 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Sémi Souames, Eric Bonnivard, Claude Bazin, and Dominique Higuet

High Mutation Rate of TPE Repeats: A Microsatellite in the Putative Transposase of the hobo Element in Drosophila melanogaster
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1826-1832; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg194 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Àurea Navarro-Sabaté, Montserrat Aguadé, and Carmen Segarra

Excess of Nonsynonymous Polymorphism at Acph-1 in Different Gene Arrangements of Drosophila subobscura
MBE Advance Access published on June 27, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1833-1843; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg196 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yingqing Lu and Mark D. Rausher

Evolutionary Rate Variation in Anthocyanin Pathway Genes
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1844-1853; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg197 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeanne M. Serb and Charles Lydeard

Complete mtDNA Sequence of the North American Freshwater Mussel, Lampsilis ornata (Unionidae): An Examination of the Evolution and Phylogenetic Utility of Mitochondrial Genome Organization in Bivalvia (Mollusca)
MBE Advance Access published on August 29, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1854-1866; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg218 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José A. Pérez, Agustí Munté, Julio Rozas, Carmen Segarra, and Montserrat Aguadé

Nucleotide Polymorphism in the RpII215 Gene Region of the Insular Species Drosophila guanche: Reduced Efficacy of Weak Selection on Synonymous Variation
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1867-1875; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg199 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarel J. Fleishman, Tal Dagan, and Dan Graur

pANT: A Method for the Pairwise Assessment of Nonfunctionalization Times of Processed Pseudogenes
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1876-1880; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg202 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José F. Fahrni, Ignacio Bolivar, Cédric Berney, Elena Nassonova, Alexey Smirnov, and Jan Pawlowski

Phylogeny of Lobose Amoebae Based on Actin and Small-Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes
MBE Advance Access published on August 29, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1881-1886; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg201 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Peter F. Arndt, Dmitri A. Petrov, and Terence Hwa

Distinct Changes of Genomic Biases in Nucleotide Substitution at the Time of Mammalian Radiation
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1887-1896; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg204 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chi-Hing C. Cheng, Liangbiao Chen, Thomas J. Near, and Yumi Jin

Functional Antifreeze Glycoprotein Genes in Temperate-Water New Zealand Nototheniid Fish Infer an Antarctic Evolutionary Origin
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1897-1908; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg208 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edgar B. Lickey, Karen W. Hughes, and Ronald H. Petersen

Variability and Phylogenetic Incongruence of an SSU nrDNA Group I Intron in Artomyces, Auriscalpium, and Lentinellus (Auriscalpiaceae: Homobasidiomycetes)
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1909-1916; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg210 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jun G. Inoue, Masaki Miya, Katsumi Tsukamoto, and Mutsumi Nishida

Evolution of the Deep-Sea Gulper Eel Mitochondrial Genomes: Large-Scale Gene Rearrangements Originated Within the Eels
MBE Advance Access published on August 29, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1917-1924; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg206 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Eric W. Ganko, Vikram Bhattacharjee, Paul Schliekelman, and John F. McDonald

Evidence for the Contribution of LTR Retrotransposons to C. elegans Gene Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1925-1931; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg200 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Alla A. Bondareva and Edward E. Schmidt

Early Vertebrate Evolution of the TATA-Binding Protein, TBP
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1932-1939; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg205 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Austin L. Hughes, Jonathan A. Green, Helen Piontkivska, and R. Michael Roberts

Aspartic Proteinase Phylogeny and the Origin of Pregnancy-Associated Glycoproteins
MBE Advance Access published on August 29, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1940-1945; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg217 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Erratum
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1946; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg300 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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