Molecular Biology and Evolution

Editorials:

William Martin

Editor's Report for 2003 and January to June, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2360-2363; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh224 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2004 State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2364-2365; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh239 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treasurer's Report for January 1, 2003–December 31, 2004 prepared by Marta L. Wayne, Treasurer
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2366; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh240 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MBE Reviewers: Volume 21
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2367-2373; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi001 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles:

Stuart A. Ralph, Bernardo J. Foth, Neil Hall, and Geoffrey I. McFadden

Evolutionary Pressures on Apicoplast Transit Peptides
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2183-2194; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh233 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark M. Tanaka, Noah A. Rosenberg, and Peter M. Small

The Control of Copy Number of IS6110 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2195-2201; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh234 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ondrej Podlaha and Jianzhi Zhang

Nonneutral Evolution of the Transcribed Pseudogene Makorin1-p1 in Mice
MBE Advance Access published on August 11, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2202-2209; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh230 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marko Premzl, Jill E. Gready, Lars S. Jermiin, Tatjana Simonic, and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Evolution of Vertebrate Genes Related to Prion and Shadoo Proteins—Clues from Comparative Genomic Analysis
MBE Advance Access published on September 1, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2210-2231; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh245 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Carine Guillet-Claude, Nathalie Isabel, Betty Pelgas, and Jean Bousquet

The Evolutionary Implications of knox-I Gene Duplications in Conifers: Correlated Evidence from Phylogeny, Gene Mapping, and Analysis of Functional Divergence
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2232-2245; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh235 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Peter A. Fields and Daniel E. Houseman

Decreases in Activation Energy and Substrate Affinity in Cold-Adapted A₄-Lactate Dehydrogenase: Evidence from the Antarctic Notothenioid Fish Chaenocephalus aceratus
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2246-2255; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh237 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark S. Bulmer and Ross H. Crozier

Duplication and Diversifying Selection Among Termite Antifungal Peptides
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2256-2264; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh236 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yong-Gang Yao, Qing-Peng Kong, Cheng-Ye Wang, Chun-Ling Zhu, and Ya-Ping Zhang

Different Matrilineal Contributions to Genetic Structure of Ethnic Groups in the Silk Road Region in China
MBE Advance Access published on August 18, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2265-2280; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh238 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. I. Kalmykova, D. A. Kwon, Ya. M. Rozovsky, N. Hueber, P. Capy, C. Maisonhaute, and V. A. Gvozdev

Selective Expansion of the Newly Evolved Genomic Variants of Retrotransposon 1731 in the Drosophila Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2281-2289; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh247 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yun-Huei Tzeng, Runsun Pan, and Wen-Hsiung Li

Comparison of Three Methods for Estimating Rates of Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Nucleotide Substitutions
MBE Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2290-2298; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh242 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Pecon-Slattery, A. J. Pearks Wilkerson, W. J. Murphy, and S. J. O'Brien

Phylogenetic Assessment of Introns and SINEs Within the Y Chromosome Using the Cat Family Felidae As a Species Tree
MBE Advance Access published on August 25, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2299-2309; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh241 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Daniel E. Neafsey, Justin P. Blumenstiel, and Daniel L. Hartl

Different Regulatory Mechanisms Underlie Similar Transposable Element Profiles in Pufferfish and Fruitflies
MBE Advance Access published on September 1, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2310-2318; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh243 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Gwenaël Piganeau, Michael Gardner, and Adam Eyre-Walker

A Broad Survey of Recombination in Animal Mitochondria
MBE Advance Access published on September 1, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2319-2325; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh244 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Deena Schmidt and Rick Durrett

Adaptive Evolution Drives the Diversification of Zinc-Finger Binding Domains
MBE Advance Access published on September 1, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2326-2339; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh246 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Walsh, Eric Bapteste, Masahiro Kamekura, and W. Ford Doolittle

Evolution of the RNA Polymerase B' Subunit Gene (rpoB') in Halobacteriales: a Complementary Molecular Marker to the SSU rRNA Gene
MBE Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2340-2351; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh248 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yoshiyuki Suzuki

Three-Dimensional Window Analysis for Detecting Positive Selection at Structural Regions of Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on September 8, 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2352-2359; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh249 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Shin-Han Shiu and Wen-Hsiung Li

Origins, Lineage-Specific Expansions, and Multiple Losses of Tyrosine Kinases in Eukaryotes
Mol Biol Evol 2004 21: 2374-2375; doi:10.1093/molbev/msh268 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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