Molecular Biology and Evolution

Research Articles:

Ellen J. Pritham, Cédric Feschotte, and Susan R. Wessler

Unexpected Diversity and Differential Success of DNA Transposons in Four Species of Entamoeba Protozoans
MBE Advance Access published on May 18, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1751-1763; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi169 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Bénédicte Wirth, Véronique Leh Louis, Serge Potier, Jean-Luc Souciet, and Laurence Despons

Paleogenomics or the Search for Remnant Duplicated Copies of the Yeast DUP240 Gene Family in Intergenic Areas
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1764-1771; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi170 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff, M. Virginia Sanchez Puerta, and Charles F. Delwiche

Chlorophyll c–Containing Plastid Relationships Based on Analyses of a Multigene Data Set with All Four Chromalveolate Lineages
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1772-1782; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi172 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Ki-Joong Kim, Keung-Sun Choi, and Robert K. Jansen

Two Chloroplast DNA Inversions Originated Simultaneously During the Early Evolution of the Sunflower Family (Asteraceae)
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1783-1792; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi174 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Santosh Jagadeeshan and Rama S. Singh

Rapidly Evolving Genes of Drosophila: Differing Levels of Selective Pressure in Testis, Ovary, and Head Tissues Between Sibling Species
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1793-1801; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi175 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pär K. Ingvarsson

Molecular Population Genetics of Herbivore-induced Protease Inhibitor Genes in European Aspen (Populus tremula L., Salicaceae)
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1802-1812; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi171 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vadim V. Goremykin, Barbara Holland, Karen I. Hirsch-Ernst, and Frank H. Hellwig

Analysis of Acorus calamus Chloroplast Genome and Its Phylogenetic Implications
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1813-1822; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi173 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hidenori Nishihara, Yoko Satta, Masato Nikaido, J. G. M. Thewissen, Michael J. Stanhope, and Norihiro Okada

A Retroposon Analysis of Afrotherian Phylogeny
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1823-1833; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi179 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Richard Pearce, Allen Malisa, S. Patrick Kachur, Karen Barnes, Brian Sharp, and Cally Roper

Reduced Variation Around Drug-Resistant dhfr Alleles in African Plasmodium falciparum
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1834-1844; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi177 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Ondrej Podlaha, David M. Webb, Priscilla K. Tucker, and Jianzhi Zhang

Positive Selection for Indel Substitutions in the Rodent Sperm Protein Catsper1
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1845-1852; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi178 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Liam St. Pierre, Paul P. Masci, Igor Filippovich, Natasha Sorokina, Neville Marsh, David J. Miller, and Martin F. Lavin

Comparative Analysis of Prothrombin Activators from the Venom of Australian Elapids
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1853-1864; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi181 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Benovoy, Robert T. Morris, Antoine Morin, and Guy Drouin

Ectopic Gene Conversions Increase the G + C Content of Duplicated Yeast and Arabidopsis Genes
MBE Advance Access published on May 25, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1865-1868; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi176 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Geeta N. Eick, David S. Jacobs, and Conrad A. Matthee

A Nuclear DNA Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Echolocation and Historical Biogeography of Extant Bats (Chiroptera)
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1869-1886; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi180 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Marcos Pérez-Losada, Raphael P. Viscidi, James C. Demma, Jonathan Zenilman, and Keith A. Crandall

Population Genetics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a High-Prevalence Community Using a Hypervariable Outer Membrane porB and 13 Slowly Evolving Housekeeping Genes
MBE Advance Access published on June 8, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1887-1902; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi184 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-François Pombert, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux, and Monique Turmel

The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Green Alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) Reveals Unusual Structural Features and New Insights into the Branching Order of Chlorophyte Lineages
MBE Advance Access published on June 1, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1903-1918; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi182 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Julien Dutheil, Tal Pupko, Alain Jean-Marie, and Nicolas Galtier

A Model-Based Approach for Detecting Coevolving Positions in a Molecule
MBE Advance Access published on June 8, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1919-1928; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  [Request Permissions]  

Rafael Navajas-Pérez, Roberto de la Herrán, Ginés López González, Manuel Jamilena, Rafael Lozano, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, Manuel Ruiz Rejón, and Manuel A. Garrido-Ramos

The Evolution of Reproductive Systems and Sex-Determining Mechanisms Within Rumex (Polygonaceae) Inferred from Nuclear and Chloroplastidial Sequence Data
MBE Advance Access published on June 8, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1929-1939; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi186 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Martin

Editor's Report for June, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1940-1942; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi213 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

Anders Ödeen and Olle Håstad

Complex Distribution of Avian Color Vision Systems Revealed by Sequencing the SWS1 Opsin from Total DNA
Mol Biol Evol 2005 22: 1943; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi205 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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