Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letter:

Jeremy D. DeBarry, Eric W. Ganko, Eugene M. McCarthy, and John F. McDonald

The Contribution of LTR Retrotransposon Sequences to Gene Evolution in Mus musculus
MBE Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 479-481; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles:

Seraina Klopfstein, Mathias Currat, and Laurent Excoffier

The Fate of Mutations Surfing on the Wave of a Range Expansion
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 482-490; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dan Levy, Ruriko Yoshida, and Lior Pachter

Beyond Pairwise Distances: Neighbor-Joining with Phylogenetic Diversity Estimates
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 491-498; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher W. Wheat, Ward B. Watt, David D. Pollock, and Patricia M. Schulte

From DNA to Fitness Differences: Sequences and Structures of Adaptive Variants of Colias Phosphoglucose Isomerase (PGI)
MBE Advance Access published on November 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 499-512; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Inference and Analysis of the Relative Stability of Bacterial Chromosomes
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 513-522; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Marie Sémon, Jean R. Lobry, and Laurent Duret

No Evidence for Tissue-Specific Adaptation of Synonymous Codon Usage in Humans
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 523-529; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang

Evolutionary Conservation of Expression Profiles Between Human and Mouse Orthologous Genes
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 530-540; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Amanda L. Rychel, Shannon E. Smith, Heather T. Shimamoto, and Billie J. Swalla

Evolution and Development of the Chordates: Collagen and Pharyngeal Cartilage
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 541-549; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Xinjiang Cai and Yanhong Zhang

Molecular Evolution of the Ankyrin Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 550-558; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

J. Scott Harrison and Ronald S. Burton

Tracing Hybrid Incompatibilities to Single Amino Acid Substitutions
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 559-564; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Taylor, Svitlana Tyekucheva, Michael Zody, Francesca Chiaromonte, and Kateryna D. Makova

Strong and Weak Male Mutation Bias at Different Sites in the Primate Genomes: Insights from the Human-Chimpanzee Comparison
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 565-573; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Jutta Buschbom and Gregory M. Mueller

Testing "Species Pair" Hypotheses: Evolutionary Processes in the Lichen-Forming Species Complex Porpidia flavocoerulescens and Porpidia melinodes
MBE Advance Access published on November 23, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 574-586; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Teun van Rheede, Trijntje Bastiaans, David N. Boone, S. Blair Hedges, Wilfried W. de Jong, and Ole Madsen

The Platypus Is in Its Place: Nuclear Genes and Indels Confirm the Sister Group Relation of Monotremes and Therians
MBE Advance Access published on November 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 587-597; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Edward J. Vowles and William Amos

Quantifying Ascertainment Bias and Species-Specific Length Differences in Human and Chimpanzee Microsatellites Using Genome Sequences
MBE Advance Access published on November 21, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 598-607; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura A. Katz, Oona Snoeyenbos-West, and F. Paul Doerder

Patterns of Protein Evolution in Tetrahymena thermophila: Implications for Estimates of Effective Population Size
MBE Advance Access published on November 24, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 608-614; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alastair G. B. Simpson, Yuji Inagaki, and Andrew J. Roger

Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of "Primitive" Eukaryotes
MBE Advance Access published on November 24, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 615-625; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Benny Chor, Michael D. Hendy, and Sagi Snir

Maximum Likelihood Jukes-Cantor Triplets: Analytic Solutions
MBE Advance Access published on November 30, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 626-632; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donald A. Gailey, Jean-Christophe Billeter, Jim H. Liu, Frederick Bauzon, Jane B. Allendorfer, and Stephen F. Goodwin

Functional Conservation of the fruitless Male Sex-Determination Gene Across 250 Myr of Insect Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on November 30, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 633-643; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj070 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George H. Perry, Brian C. Verrelli, and Anne C. Stone

Molecular Evolution of the Primate Developmental Genes MSX1 and PAX9
MBE Advance Access published on December 2, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 644-654; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Alberto Civetta, Sujeetha A. Rajakumar, Barb Brouwers, and John P. Bacik

Rapid Evolution and Gene-Specific Patterns of Selection for Three Genes of Spermatogenesis in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on December 15, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 655-662; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj074 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Shenglan Li, Tetyana Nosenko, Jeremiah D. Hackett, and Debashish Bhattacharya

Phylogenomic Analysis Identifies Red Algal Genes of Endosymbiotic Origin in the Chromalveolates
MBE Advance Access published on December 15, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 663-674; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj075 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Feng-Chi Chen, Sheng-Shun Wang, Chuang-Jong Chen, Wen-Hsiung Li, and Trees-Juen Chuang

Alternatively and Constitutively Spliced Exons Are Subject to Different Evolutionary Forces
MBE Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 675-682; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chang Sun, Qing-Peng Kong, Malliya gounder Palanichamy, Suraksha Agrawal, Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Yong-Gang Yao, Faisal Khan, Chun-Ling Zhu, Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri, and Ya-Ping Zhang

The Dazzling Array of Basal Branches in the mtDNA Macrohaplogroup M from India as Inferred from Complete Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on December 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 683-690; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Felsenstein

Accuracy of Coalescent Likelihood Estimates: Do We Need More Sites, More Sequences, or More Loci?
MBE Advance Access published on December 19, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 691-700; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj079 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Linda Bonen and Sophie Calixte

Comparative Analysis of Bacterial-Origin Genes for Plant Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 701-712; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj080 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marta L. Wayne Treasurer

Treasurer's Report for Financial Year 2004
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 713; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj031 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2005 Auckland, New Zealand
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 714-715; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj032 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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MBE Reviewers Volume 22
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 716-720; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj033 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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