Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Xulio Maside, Carolina Bartolomé, and Brian Charlesworth

Inferences on the Evolutionary History of the S-Element Family of Drosophila melanogaster
MBE Advance Access published on April 25, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1183-1187; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg120 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Colin Dale, Ben Wang, Nancy Moran, and Howard Ochman

Loss of DNA Recombinational Repair Enzymes in the Initial Stages of Genome Degeneration
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1188-1194; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg138 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jukka S. Moilanen and Kari Majamaa

Phylogenetic Network and Physicochemical Properties of Nonsynonymous Mutations in the Protein-Coding Genes of Human Mitochondrial DNA
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1195-1210; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg121 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Youn-Ho Lee

Molecular Phylogenies and Divergence Times of Sea Urchin Species of Strongylocentrotidae, Echinoida
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1211-1221; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg125 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Howard M. Laten, Ericka R. Havecker, Lisa M. Farmer, and Daniel F. Voytas

SIRE1, an Endogenous Retrovirus Family from Glycine max, Is Highly Homogeneous and Evolutionarily Young
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1222-1230; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg142 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Rasmus Nielsen and Ziheng Yang

Estimating the Distribution of Selection Coefficients from Phylogenetic Data with Applications to Mitochondrial and Viral DNA
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1231-1239; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg147 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Creer, Anita Malhotra, and Roger S. Thorpe

Assessing the Phylogenetic Utility of Four Mitochondrial Genes and a Nuclear Intron in the Asian Pit Viper Genus, Trimeresurus: Separate, Simultaneous, and Conditional Data Combination Analyses
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1240-1251; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg136 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Roald Forsberg and Freddy Bugge Christiansen

A Codon-Based Model of Host-Specific Selection in Parasites, with an Application to the Influenza A Virus
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1252-1259; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg149 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William D. Burke, Daljit Singh, and Thomas H. Eickbush

R5 Retrotransposons Insert into a Family of Infrequently Transcribed 28S rRNA Genes of Planaria
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1260-1270; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg141 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erik Salaneck, David H. Ardell, Earl T. Larson, and Dan Larhammar

Three Neuropeptide Y Receptor Genes in the Spiny Dogfish, Squalus acanthias, Support en Bloc Duplications in Early Vertebrate Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1271-1280; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg133 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Takashi Kitano, Carsten Schwarz, Birgit Nickel, and Svante Pääbo

Gene Diversity Patterns at 10 X-Chromosomal Loci in Humans and Chimpanzees
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1281-1289; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg134 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandre Vienne, Jeffrey Rasmussen, Laurent Abi-Rached, Pierre Pontarotti, and André Gilles

Systematic Phylogenomic Evidence of en Bloc Duplication of the Ancestral 8p11.21–8p21.3-like Region
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1290-1298; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg127 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Arthur Chun-Chieh Shih and Wen-Hsiung Li

GS-Aligner: A Novel Tool for Aligning Genomic Sequences Using Bit-Level Operations
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1299-1309; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg139 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jianzhi Zhang

Parallel Functional Changes in the Digestive RNases of Ruminants and Colobines by Divergent Amino Acid Substitutions
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1310-1317; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg143 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scott Williamson

Adaptation in the env Gene of HIV-1 and Evolutionary Theories of Disease Progression
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1318-1325; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg144 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulf Sorhannus

The Effect of Positive Selection on a Sexual Reproduction Gene in Thalassiosira weissflogii (Bacillariophyta): Results Obtained from Maximum-Likelihood and Parsimony-Based Methods
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1326-1328; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg145 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maximilian Kauer, Daniel Dieringer, and Christian Schlötterer

Nonneutral Admixture of Immigrant Genotypes in African Drosophila melanogaster Populations from Zimbabwe
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1329-1337; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg148 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Bethaney J. Vincent, Jeremy S. Myers, Huei Jin Ho, Gail E. Kilroy, Jerilyn A. Walker, W. Scott Watkins, Lynn B. Jorde, and Mark A. Batzer

Following the LINEs: An Analysis of Primate Genomic Variation at Human-Specific LINE-1 Insertion Sites
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1338-1348; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Abdel-Halim Salem, Gail E. Kilroy, W. Scott Watkins, Lynn B. Jorde, and Mark A. Batzer

Recently Integrated Alu Elements and Human Genomic Diversity
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1349-1361; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg150 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Fabienne Chalvet, Christine Grimaldi, Fiona Kaper, Thierry Langin, and Marie-Josée Daboussi

Hop, an Active Mutator-like Element in the Genome of the Fungus Fusarium oxysporum
MBE Advance Access published on May 30, 2003
Mol Biol Evol 2003 20: 1362-1375; doi:10.1093/molbev/msg155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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