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William Amos
The Hidden Value of Missing Genotypes
MBE Advance Access published on August 4, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1995-1996; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl078 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

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Olivier Gascuel and Mike Steel
Neighbor-Joining Revealed
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1997-2000; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl072 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Sumedha Sadekar, Jason Raymond, and Robert E. Blankenship
Conservation of Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a Common Structural Core
MBE Advance Access published on August 3, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2001-2007; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl079 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas J. Near, Sandra K. Parker, and H. William Detrich, III
A Genomic Fossil Reveals Key Steps in Hemoglobin Loss by the Antarctic Icefishes
MBE Advance Access published on July 26, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2008-2016; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl071 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Melanie A. Huntley and G. Brian Golding
Selection and Slippage Creating Serine Homopolymers
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2017-2025; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl073 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Tetyana Nosenko, Kristy L. Lidie, Frances M. Van Dolah, Erika Lindquist, Jan-Fang Cheng, US Department of Energy–Joint Genome Institute, and Debashish Bhattacharya
Chimeric Plastid Proteome in the Florida "Red Tide" Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis
MBE Advance Access published on July 28, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2026-2038; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl074 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Karin Julenius and Anders Gorm Pedersen
Protein Evolution Is Faster Outside the Cell
MBE Advance Access published on August 4, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2039-2048; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl081 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iñaki Comas, Andrés Moya, Rajeev K. Azad, Jeffrey G. Lawrence, and Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas
The Evolutionary Origin of Xanthomonadales Genomes and the Nature of the Horizontal Gene Transfer Process
MBE Advance Access published on August 1, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2049-2057; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl075 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Samuel Blanquart and Nicolas Lartillot
A Bayesian Compound Stochastic Process for Modeling Nonstationary and Nonhomogeneous Sequence Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on August 24, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2058-2071; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl091 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben-Yang Liao, Nicole M. Scott, and Jianzhi Zhang
Impacts of Gene Essentiality, Expression Pattern, and Gene Compactness on the Evolutionary Rate of Mammalian Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on August 3, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2072-2080; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl076 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Leopold Eckhart, Aumaid Uthman, Wolfgang Sipos, and Erwin Tschachler
Genome Sequence Comparison Reveals Independent Inactivation of the Caspase-15 Gene in Different Evolutionary Lineages of Mammals
MBE Advance Access published on August 3, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2081-2089; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl077 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brandi L. Cantarel, Hilary G. Morrison, and William Pearson
Exploring the Relationship between Sequence Similarity and Accurate Phylogenetic Trees
MBE Advance Access published on August 4, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2090-2100; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl080 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Cristina Fraumene, Elise M. S. Belle, Loredana Castrì, Simona Sanna, Gianmaria Mancosu, Massimiliano Cosso, Francesca Marras, Guido Barbujani, Mario Pirastu, and Andrea Angius
High Resolution Analysis and Phylogenetic Network Construction Using Complete mtDNA Sequences in Sardinian Genetic Isolates
MBE Advance Access published on August 10, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2101-2111; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl084 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Chantal Abergel, Guillaume Blanc, Vincent Monchois, Patricia Renesto, Cécile Sigoillot, Hiroyuki Ogata, Didier Raoult, and Jean-Michel Claverie
Impact of the Excision of an Ancient Repeat Insertion on Rickettsia conorii Guanylate Kinase Activity
MBE Advance Access published on August 4, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2112-2122; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl082 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Rafael Sanjuán, Javier Forment, and Santiago F. Elena
In Silico Predicted Robustness of Viroid RNA Secondary Structures. II. Interaction between Mutation Pairs
MBE Advance Access published on August 10, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2123-2130; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl083 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sun Shim Choi, Eric J. Vallender, and Bruce T. Lahn
Systematically Assessing the Influence of 3-Dimensional Structural Context on the Molecular Evolution of Mammalian Proteomes
MBE Advance Access published on August 10, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2131-2133; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl086 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Valia Shoja and Liqing Zhang
A Roadmap of Tandemly Arrayed Genes in the Genomes of Human, Mouse, and Rat
MBE Advance Access published on August 10, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2134-2141; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl085 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

C. Donovan Bailey, Marcus A. Koch, Michael Mayer, Klaus Mummenhoff, Steve L. O'Kane, Jr, Suzanne I. Warwick, Michael D. Windham, and Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
Toward a Global Phylogeny of the Brassicaceae
MBE Advance Access published on August 17, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2142-2160; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl087 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah A. Bolnick, Daniel I. Bolnick, and David Glenn Smith
Asymmetric Male and Female Genetic Histories among Native Americans from Eastern North America
MBE Advance Access published on August 17, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2161-2174; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl088 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Timothy W. Chumley, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Jeffrey P. Mower, H. Matthew Fourcade, Patrick J. Calie, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Robert K. Jansen
The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Pelargonium x hortorum: Organization and Evolution of the Largest and Most Highly Rearranged Chloroplast Genome of Land Plants
MBE Advance Access published on August 17, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2175-2190; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl089 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Esther Betrán, Yongsheng Bai, and Mansi Motiwale
Fast Protein Evolution and Germ Line Expression of a Drosophila Parental Gene and Its Young Retroposed Paralog
MBE Advance Access published on August 17, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2191-2202; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl090 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daven C. Presgraves
Intron Length Evolution in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on August 21, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2203-2213; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl094 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leonor Palmeira, Laurent Guéguen, and Jean R. Lobry
UV-Targeted Dinucleotides Are Not Depleted in Light-Exposed Prokaryotic Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2214-2219; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl096 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

RR Gray, CJ Mulligan, BJ Molini, ES Sun, L Giacani, C Godornes, A Kitchen, SA Lukehart, and A Centurion-Lara
Molecular Evolution of the tprC, D, I, K, G, and J Genes in the Pathogenic Genus Treponema
MBE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2220-2233; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl092 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manfred Kayser, Silke Brauer, Richard Cordaux, Amanda Casto, Oscar Lao, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Robb B. Rutledge, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, David Gil, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, Peter J. Oefner, Ronald J. Trent, and Mark Stoneking
Melanesian and Asian Origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y Chromosome Gradients Across the Pacific
MBE Advance Access published on August 21, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2234-2244; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl093 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Lena C. Hileman, Jens F. Sundstrom, Amy Litt, Meiqin Chen, Takudzwa Shumba, and Vivian F. Irish
Molecular and Phylogenetic Analyses of the MADS-Box Gene Family in Tomato
MBE Advance Access published on August 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2245-2258; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl095 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

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