Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letters:

John G. Bishop

Directed Mutagenesis Confirms the Functional Importance of Positively Selected Sites in Polygalacturonase Inhibitor Protein
MBE Advance Access published on April 13, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1531-1534; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi146 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Vassiliki Koufopanou and Austin Burt

Degeneration and Domestication of a Selfish Gene in Yeast: Molecular Evolution Versus Site-Directed Mutagenesis
MBE Advance Access published on April 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1535-1538; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi149 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas A. Stover, André R. O. Cavalcanti, Anya J. Li, Brian C. Richardson, and Laura F. Landweber

Reciprocal Fusions of Two Genes in the Formaldehyde Detoxification Pathway in Ciliates and Diatoms
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1539-1542; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi151 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Katsunori Ogoh and Yoshihiro Ohmiya

Biogeography of Luminous Marine Ostracod Driven Irreversibly by the Japan Current
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1543-1545; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi155 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles:

Irina K. Gogolevskaya, Anastasia P. Koval, and Dmitri A. Kramerov

Evolutionary History of 4.5SH RNA
MBE Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1546-1554; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi140 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Lev A. Usakin, Galina L. Kogan, Alla I. Kalmykova, and Vladimir A. Gvozdev

An Alien Promoter Capture as a Primary Step of the Evolution of Testes-Expressed Repeats in the Drosophila melanogaster Genome
MBE Advance Access published on April 13, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1555-1560; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi147 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Simon Y. W. Ho, Matthew J. Phillips, Alan Cooper, and Alexei J. Drummond

Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates and Systematic Overestimation of Recent Divergence Times
MBE Advance Access published on April 6, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1561-1568; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi145 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Thorsten Hadrys, Rob DeSalle, Sven Sagasser, Nina Fischer, and Bernd Schierwater

The Trichoplax PaxB Gene: A Putative Proto-PaxA/B/C Gene Predating the Origin of Nerve and Sensory Cells
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1569-1578; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi150 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yun-xia Luan, Jon M. Mallatt, Rong-dong Xie, Yi-ming Yang, and Wen-ying Yin

The Phylogenetic Positions of Three Basal-Hexapod Groups (Protura, Diplura, and Collembola) Based on Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences
MBE Advance Access published on April 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1579-1592; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi148 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph J. Gillespie, James B. Munro, John M. Heraty, Matthew J. Yoder, Albert K. Owen, and Andrew E. Carmichael

A Secondary Structural Model of the 28S rRNA Expansion Segments D2 and D3 for Chalcidoid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)
MBE Advance Access published on April 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1593-1608; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi152 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Nadia L. Prigoda, Annette Nassuth, and Barbara K. Mable

Phenotypic and Genotypic Expression of Self-incompatibility Haplotypes in Arabidopsis lyrata Suggests Unique Origin of Alleles in Different Dominance Classes
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1609-1620; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi153 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel E. Neafsey, Daniel L. Hartl, and Matt Berriman

Evolution of Noncoding and Silent Coding Sites in the Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium reichenowi Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1621-1626; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi154 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael J. Buck and William R. Atchley

Networks of Coevolving Sites in Structural and Functional Domains of Serpin Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on April 27, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1627-1634; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi157 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

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