Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Uwe John, Robert A. Fensome, and Linda K. Medlin

The Application of a Molecular Clock Based on Molecular Sequences and the Fossil Record to Explain Biogeographic Distributions Within the Alexandrium tamarense "Species Complex" (Dinophyceae)
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1015-1027; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg105 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tadamasa Sasaki, Yasushi Yukawa, Tetsuya Miyamoto, Junichi Obokata, and Masahiro Sugiura

Identification of RNA Editing Sites in Chloroplast Transcripts from the Maternal and Paternal Progenitors of Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum): Comparative Analysis Shows the Involvement of Distinct Trans-Factors for ndhB Editing
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1028-1035; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg098 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Sanderson, Amy C. Driskell, Richard H. Ree, Oliver Eulenstein, and Sasha Langley

Obtaining Maximal Concatenated Phylogenetic Data Sets from Large Sequence Databases
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1036-1042; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg115 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Akira Kawabe and Naohiko T. Miyashita

DNA Polymorphism in Active Gene and Pseudogene of the Cytosolic Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PgiC) Loci in Arabidopsis halleri ssp. gemmifera
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1043-1050; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg124 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark van der Giezen, Graeme M. Birdsey, David S. Horner, John Lucocq, Patricia L. Dyal, Marlene Benchimol, Christopher J. Danpure, and T. Martin Embley

Fungal Hydrogenosomes Contain Mitochondrial Heat-Shock Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1051-1061; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg103 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sachihiro Matsunaga, Erika Isono, Eduard Kejnovsky, Boris Vyskot, Jaroslav Dolezel, Shigeyuki Kawano, and Deborah Charlesworth

Duplicative Transfer of a MADS Box Gene to a Plant Y Chromosome
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1062-1069; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg114 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pawel Michalak and Mohamed A. F. Noor

Genome-Wide Patterns of Expression in Drosophila Pure Species and Hybrid Males
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1070-1076; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg119 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Luis M. Márquez, David J. Miller, Jason B. MacKenzie, and Madeleine J. H. van Oppen

Pseudogenes Contribute to the Extreme Diversity of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA in the Hard Coral Acropora
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1077-1086; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg122 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Mathews, J. Gordon Burleigh, and Michael J. Donoghue

Adaptive Evolution in the Photosensory Domain of Phytochrome A in Early Angiosperms
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1087-1097; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg123 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin G. Klotz and Peter C. Loewen

The Molecular Evolution of Catalatic Hydroperoxidases: Evidence for Multiple Lateral Transfer of Genes Between Prokaryota and from Bacteria into Eukaryota
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1098-1112; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg129 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin J. Lercher, Araxi O. Urrutia, and Laurence D. Hurst

Evidence That the Human X Chromosome Is Enriched for Male-Specific but not Female-Specific Genes
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1113-1116; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg131 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew McKenzie, Maria Chiotis, Carl A. Pinkert, and Ian A. Trounce

Functional Respiratory Chain Analyses in Murid Xenomitochondrial Cybrids Expose Coevolutionary Constraints of Cytochrome b and Nuclear Subunits of Complex III
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1117-1124; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg132 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ilya V. Kelmanson and Mikhail V. Matz

Molecular Basis and Evolutionary Origins of Color Diversity in Great Star Coral Montastraea cavernosa (Scleractinia: Faviida)
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1125-1133; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg130 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Joshua S. Rest and David P. Mindell

Retroids in Archaea: Phylogeny and Lateral Origins
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1134-1142; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg135 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles L. Ross, Kelly A. Dyer, Tamar Erez, Susan J. Miller, John Jaenike, and Therese A. Markow

Rapid Divergence of Microsatellite Abundance Among Species of Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1143-1157; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg137 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben J. Mans, Abraham I. Louw, and Albert W. H. Neitz

The Major Tick Salivary Gland Proteins and Toxins from the Soft Tick, Ornithodoros savignyi, Are Part of the Tick Lipocalin Family: Implications for the Origins of Tick Toxicoses
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1158-1167; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg126 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jon P. Anderson, Gerald H. Learn, Allen G. Rodrigo, Xi He, Yang Wang, Hillard Weinstock, Marcia L. Kalish, Kenneth E. Robbins, Leroy Hood, and James I. Mullins

Predicting Demographic Group Structures Based on DNA Sequence Data
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1168-1180; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Errata
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1181; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg161 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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