Molecular Biology and Evolution

Research Articles:

Tomoaki Nishiyama, Paul G. Wolf, Masanori Kugita, Robert B. Sinclair, Mamoru Sugita, Chika Sugiura, Tatsuya Wakasugi, Kyoji Yamada, Koichi Yoshinaga, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Ueda, and Mitsuyasu Hasebe

Chloroplast Phylogeny Indicates that Bryophytes Are Monophyletic
MBE Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1813-1819; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh203 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

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

Gene Expression, Synteny, and Local Similarity in Human Noncoding Mutation Rates
MBE Advance Access published on June 2, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1820-1830; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh181 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fabiana Herédia, Elgion Lúcio S. Loreto, and Vera Lúcia S. Valente

Complex Evolution of gypsy in Drosophilid Species
MBE Advance Access published on June 2, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1831-1842; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Neil Howell, Joanna L. Elson, D. M. Turnbull, and Corinna Herrnstadt

African Haplogroup L mtDNA Sequences Show Violations of Clock-like Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on June 9, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1843-1854; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh184 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Toshifumi Nagata, Shigemi Iizumi, Kouji Satoh, Hisako Ooka, Jun Kawai, Piero Carninci, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Yasuhiro Otomo, Kazuo Murakami, Kenichi Matsubara, and Shoshi Kikuchi

Comparative Analysis of Plant and Animal Calcium Signal Transduction Element Using Plant Full-Length cDNA Data
MBE Advance Access published on June 23, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1855-1870; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh197 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Neeraja M. Krishnan, Hervé Seligmann, Caro-Beth Stewart, A. P. Jason de Koning, and David D. Pollock

Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction in Primate Mitochondrial DNA: Compositional Bias and Effect on Functional Inference
MBE Advance Access published on June 30, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1871-1883; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh198 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Arturo Medrano-Soto, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Pablo Vinuesa, J. Andrés Christen, and Julio Collado-Vides

Successful Lateral Transfer Requires Codon Usage Compatibility Between Foreign Genes and Recipient Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1884-1894; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh202 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Bertrand Bonnaud, Olivier Bouton, Guy Oriol, Valérie Cheynet, Laurent Duret, and François Mallet

Evidence of Selection on the Domesticated ERVWE1 env Retroviral Element Involved in Placentation
MBE Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1895-1901; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh206 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. Achaz, S. Palmer, M. Kearney, F. Maldarelli, J. W. Mellors, J. M. Coffin, and J. Wakeley

A Robust Measure of HIV-1 Population Turnover Within Chronically Infected Individuals
MBE Advance Access published on June 23, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1902-1912; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh196 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jakob Skou Pedersen, Roald Forsberg, Irmtraud Margret Meyer, and Jotun Hein

An Evolutionary Model for Protein-Coding Regions with Conserved RNA Structure
MBE Advance Access published on June 30, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1913-1922; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh199 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Stéphanie Bertrand, Frédéric G. Brunet, Hector Escriva, Gilles Parmentier, Vincent Laudet, and Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Evolutionary Genomics of Nuclear Receptors: From Twenty-Five Ancestral Genes to Derived Endocrine Systems
MBE Advance Access published on June 30, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1923-1937; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh200 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Rowena E. Martin and Kiaran Kirk

The Malaria Parasite's Chloroquine Resistance Transporter is a Member of the Drug/Metabolite Transporter Superfamily
MBE Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1938-1949; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh205 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cheryl Y. Hayashi, Todd A. Blackledge, and Randolph V. Lewis

Molecular and Mechanical Characterization of Aciniform Silk: Uniformity of Iterated Sequence Modules in a Novel Member of the Spider Silk Fibroin Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on July 7, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1950-1959; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh204 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Uma Ramakrishnan and Joanna L. Mountain

Precision and Accuracy of Divergence Time Estimates from STR and SNPSTR Variation
MBE Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1960-1971; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh212 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erik Richly and Dario Leister

NUPTs in Sequenced Eukaryotes and Their Genomic Organization in Relation to NUMTs
MBE Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1972-1980; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh210 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Seth R. Bordenstein and Jennifer J. Wernegreen

Bacteriophage Flux in Endosymbionts (Wolbachia): Infection Frequency, Lateral Transfer, and Recombination Rates
MBE Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1981-1991; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh211 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José M. Eirín-López, Ana M. González-Tizón, Andrés Martínez, and Josefina Méndez

Birth-and-Death Evolution with Strong Purifying Selection in the Histone H1 Multigene Family and the Origin of orphon H1 Genes
MBE Advance Access published on July 14, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 1992-2003; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh213 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

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