Molecular Biology and Evolution

Original Articles:

Andreas Wagner

Energy Constraints on the Evolution of Gene Expression
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1365-1374; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi126 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasja G. de Groot, Christian A. Garcia, Ernst J. Verschoor, Gaby G. M. Doxiadis, Steven G. E. Marsh, Nel Otting, and Ronald E. Bontrop

Reduced MIC Gene Repertoire Variation in West African Chimpanzees as Compared to Humans
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1375-1385; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi127 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jack Sullivan, Zaid Abdo, Paul Joyce, and David L. Swofford

Evaluating the Performance of a Successive-Approximations Approach to Parameter Optimization in Maximum-Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1386-1392; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi129 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lindell Bromham and Remko Leys

Sociality and the Rate of Molecular Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1393-1402; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi133 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

David B. Carlini

Context-Dependent Codon Bias and Messenger RNA Longevity in the Yeast Transcriptome
MBE Advance Access published on March 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1403-1411; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi135 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Tyrone C. Spady, Ole Seehausen, Ellis R. Loew, Rebecca C. Jordan, Thomas D. Kocher, and Karen L. Carleton

Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Opsin Genes of Rapidly Speciating Cichlid Species
MBE Advance Access published on March 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1412-1422; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi137 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dave T. Gerrard and Dmitry A. Filatov

Positive and Negative Selection on Mammalian Y Chromosomes
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1423-1432; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi128 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yusuke Taguchi, Tsuyoshi Koide, Toshihiko Shiroishi, and Takeshi Yagi

Molecular Evolution of Cadherin-Related Neuronal Receptor/Protocadherin (CNR/Pcdh) Gene Cluster in Mus musculus Subspecies
MBE Advance Access published on March 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1433-1443; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi130 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Anthony M. Poole and Derek T. Logan

Modern mRNA Proofreading and Repair: Clues that the Last Universal Common Ancestor Possessed an RNA Genome?
MBE Advance Access published on March 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1444-1455; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi132 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eugeni Belda, Andrés Moya, and Francisco J. Silva

Genome Rearrangement Distances and Gene Order Phylogeny in -Proteobacteria
MBE Advance Access published on March 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1456-1467; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi134 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Matthew T. Webster, Nick G. C. Smith, Lina Hultin-Rosenberg, Peter F. Arndt, and Hans Ellegren

Male-Driven Biased Gene Conversion Governs the Evolution of Base Composition in Human Alu Repeats
MBE Advance Access published on March 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1468-1474; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi136 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Deng-Ke Niu, Wen-Ru Hou, and Shu-Wei Li

mRNA-Mediated Intron Losses: Evidence from Extraordinarily Large Exons
MBE Advance Access published on March 23, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1475-1481; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi138 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Natalia N. Pouchkina-Stantcheva and Alan Tunnacliffe

Spliced Leader RNA–Mediated trans-Splicing in Phylum Rotifera
MBE Advance Access published on March 23, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1482-1489; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi139 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cristina Santos, Rafael Montiel, Blanca Sierra, Conceição Bettencourt, Elisabet Fernandez, Luis Alvarez, Manuela Lima, Augusto Abade, and M. Pilar Aluja

Understanding Differences Between Phylogenetic and Pedigree-Derived mtDNA Mutation Rate: A Model Using Families from the Azores Islands (Portugal)
MBE Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1490-1505; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi141 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Friedlaender, Theodore Schurr, Fred Gentz, George Koki, Françoise Friedlaender, Gisele Horvat, Paul Babb, Sal Cerchio, Frederika Kaestle, Moses Schanfield, Ranjan Deka, Ric Yanagihara, and D. Andrew Merriwether

Expanding Southwest Pacific Mitochondrial Haplogroups P and Q
MBE Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1506-1517; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi142 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Manuel Fernández-López, Estefanía Muñoz-Adelantado, Moniek Gillis, Anne Willems, and Nicolás Toro

Dispersal and Evolution of the Sinorhizobium meliloti Group II RmInt1 Intron in Bacteria that Interact with Plants
MBE Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1518-1528; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi144 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Götz Froeschke and Simone Sommer

MHC Class II DRB Variability and Parasite Load in the Striped Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Southern Kalahari
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1529; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi156 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

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