Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Asher D. Cutter and Bret A. Payseur

Selection at Linked Sites in the Partial Selfer Caenorhabditis elegans
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 665-673; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg072 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ferran Casals, Mario Cáceres, and Alfredo Ruiz

The Foldback-like Transposon Galileo Is Involved in the Generation of Two Different Natural Chromosomal Inversions of Drosophila buzzatii
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 674-685; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg070 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Evelyne Lebrun, Myriam Brugna, Frauke Baymann, Daniel Muller, Didier Lièvremont, Marie-Claire Lett, and Wolfgang Nitschke

Arsenite Oxidase, an Ancient Bioenergetic Enzyme
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 686-693; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg071 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vladimir V. Kapitonov and Jerzy Jurka

A Novel Class of SINE Elements Derived from 5S rRNA
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 694-702; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg075 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Casey M. Bergman, and Andrew G. Clark

Tracing the Evolutionary History of Drosophila Regulatory Regions with Models that Identify Transcription Factor Binding Sites
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 703-714; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg077 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Peter Calabrese and Rick Durrett

Dinucleotide Repeats in the Drosophila and Human Genomes Have Complex, Length-Dependent Mutation Processes
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 715-725; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg084 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kaare M. Nielsen, Jacob Kasper, Mehee Choi, Trevor Bedford, Kurt Kristiansen, Dyann F. Wirth, Sarah K. Volkman, Elena R. Lozovsky, and Daniel L. Hartl

Gene Conversion as a Source of Nucleotide Diversity in Plasmodium falciparum
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 726-734; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg076 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marc A. Heim, Marc Jakoby, Martin Werber, Cathie Martin, Bernd Weisshaar, and Paul C. Bailey

The Basic Helix–Loop–Helix Transcription Factor Family in Plants: A Genome-Wide Study of Protein Structure and Functional Diversity
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 735-747; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg088 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Max Reuter and Laurent Keller

High Levels of Multiple Wolbachia Infection and Recombination in the Ant Formica exsecta
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 748-753; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg082 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Gandolfi, Ian R. Sanders, Valeria Rossi, and Paolo Menozzi

Evidence of Recombination in Putative Ancient Asexuals
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 754-761; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg081 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Thomas M. Prychitko and William S. Moore

Alignment and Phylogenetic Analysis of ß-Fibrinogen Intron 7 Sequences Among Avian Orders Reveal Conserved Regions Within the Intron
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 762-771; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg080 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jing Yang, Zhenglong Gu, and Wen-Hsiung Li

Rate of Protein Evolution Versus Fitness Effect of Gene Deletion
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 772-774; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg078 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Diego Sánchez, María D. Ganfornina, Gabriel Gutiérrez, and Antonio Marín

Exon-Intron Structure and Evolution of the Lipocalin Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 775-783; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg079 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masumi Nakazawa, Francesc Cebrià, Katsuhiko Mineta, Kazuho Ikeo, Kiyokazu Agata, and Takashi Gojobori

Search for the Evolutionary Origin of a Brain: Planarian Brain Characterized by Microarray
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 784-791; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg086 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. Caracristi and C. Schlötterer

Genetic Differentiation Between American and European Drosophila melanogaster Populations Could Be Attributed to Admixture of African Alleles
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 792-799; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg091 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Hsiao-Pei Yang and Sergey V. Nuzhdin

Fitness Costs of Doc Expression Are Insufficient to Stabilize Its Copy Number in Drosophila melanogaster
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 800-804; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg087 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peng Shi, Jianzhi Zhang, Hui Yang, and Ya-ping Zhang

Adaptive Diversification of Bitter Taste Receptor Genes in Mammalian Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 805-814; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg083 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jing-Fei Huang

Different Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Superfamilies Resulting from Different Gene Reading Frames
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 815-820; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg094 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Yoshihito Uchino and Akira Yokota

"Green-like" and "Red-like" RubisCO cbbL Genes in Rhodobacter azotoformans
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 821-830; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg100 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José García-Martínez and José A. Martínez-Izquierdo

Study on the Evolution of the Grande Retrotransposon in the Zea Genus
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 831-841; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg095 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Muriel Jager, Alexandre Hassanin, Michael Manuel, Hervé Le Guyader, and Jean Deutsch

MADS-Box Genes in Ginkgo biloba and the Evolution of the AGAMOUS Family
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 842-854; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg089 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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