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Contents: Volume 24, Number 12, December 2007   [Index by Author] 

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Introduction Back

Editor's Dinner at SMBE 2007 at the kind invitation of OUP
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2593; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm264 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter Back

Igor B. Rogozin, Yuri I. Wolf, Liran Carmel, and Eugene V. Koonin
Analysis of Rare Amino Acid Replacements Supports the Coelomata Clade
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2594-2597; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm218 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Research Articles Back

Melanie A. Huntley and Andrew G. Clark
Evolutionary Analysis of Amino Acid Repeats across the Genomes of 12 Drosophila Species
MBE Advance Access published on June 29, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2598-2609; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm129 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Reinhard Hoffmann, Claudio Lottaz, Thomas Kühne, Antonius Rolink, and Fritz Melchers
Neutrality, Compensation, and Negative Selection during Evolution of B-Cell Development Transcriptomes
MBE Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2610-2618; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm198 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jared V. Goldstone, Heather M. H. Goldstone, Ann M. Morrison, Ann Tarrant, Suzanne E. Kern, Bruce R. Woodin, and John J. Stegeman
Cytochrome P450 1 Genes in Early Deuterostomes (Tunicates and Sea Urchins) and Vertebrates (Chicken and Frog): Origin and Diversification of the CYP1 Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on October 4, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2619-2631; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm200 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher T. Saunders and Phil Green
Insights from Modeling Protein Evolution with Context-Dependent Mutation and Asymmetric Amino Acid Selection
MBE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2632-2647; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm190 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Akira Hikosaka, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yumiko Saito, and Akira Kawahara
Evolution of the Xenopus piggyBac Transposon Family TxpB: Domesticated and Untamed Strategies of Transposon Subfamilies
MBE Advance Access published on October 13, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2648-2656; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm191 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

B. Kilian, H. Özkan, A. Walther, J. Kohl, T. Dagan, F. Salamini, and W. Martin
Molecular Diversity at 18 Loci in 321 Wild and 92 Domesticate Lines Reveal No Reduction of Nucleotide Diversity during Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) Domestication: Implications for the Origin of Agriculture
MBE Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2657-2668; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm192 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Lepage, David Bryant, Hervé Philippe, and Nicolas Lartillot
A General Comparison of Relaxed Molecular Clock Models
MBE Advance Access published on September 21, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2669-2680; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm193 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca F. Furlong, Ruth Younger, Masanori Kasahara, Richard Reinhardt, Michael Thorndyke, and Peter W. H. Holland
A Degenerate ParaHox Gene Cluster in a Degenerate Vertebrate
MBE Advance Access published on September 25, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2681-2686; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm194 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Nadia D. Singh, Vanessa L. Bauer DuMont, Melissa J. Hubisz, Rasmus Nielsen, and Charles F. Aquadro
Patterns of Mutation and Selection at Synonymous Sites in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2687-2697; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Judith E. Mank, Lina Hultin-Rosenberg, Erik Axelsson, and Hans Ellegren
Rapid Evolution of Female-Biased, but Not Male-Biased, Genes Expressed in the Avian Brain
MBE Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2698-2706; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm208 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Aida M. Andrés, Coralie de Hemptinne, and Jaume Bertranpetit
Heterogeneous Rate of Protein Evolution in Serotonin Genes
MBE Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2707-2715; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Wayne M. Patrick, Erik M. Quandt, Dan B. Swartzlander, and Ichiro Matsumura
Multicopy Suppression Underpins Metabolic Evolvability
MBE Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2716-2722; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm204 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Bernhard Hausdorf, Martin Helmkampf, Achim Meyer, Alexander Witek, Holger Herlyn, Iris Bruchhaus, Thomas Hankeln, Torsten H. Struck, and Bernhard Lieb
Spiralian Phylogenomics Supports the Resurrection of Bryozoa Comprising Ectoprocta and Entoprocta
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2723-2729; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm214 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

François Rousset and Raphaël Leblois
Likelihood and Approximate Likelihood Analyses of Genetic Structure in a Linear Habitat: Performance and Robustness to Model Mis-Specification
MBE Advance Access published on September 24, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2730-2745; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm206 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renchao Zhou, Kai Zeng, Wei Wu, Xiaoshu Chen, Ziheng Yang, Suhua Shi, and Chung-I Wu
Population Genetics of Speciation in Nonmodel Organisms: I. Ancestral Polymorphism in Mangroves
MBE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2746-2754; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm209 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Tobias Warnecke and Laurence D. Hurst
Evidence for a Trade-Off between Translational Efficiency and Splicing Regulation in Determining Synonymous Codon Usage in Drosophila melanogaster
MBE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2755-2762; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm210 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Schlegel, Oliver Mirus, Arndt von Haeseler, and Enrico Schleiff
The Tetratricopeptide Repeats of Receptors Involved in Protein Translocation across Membranes
MBE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2763-2774; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm211 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew K. Fujita, Jeffrey L. Boore, and Craig Moritz
Multiple Origins and Rapid Evolution of Duplicated Mitochondrial Genes in Parthenogenetic Geckos (Heteronotia binoei; Squamata, Gekkonidae)
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2775-2786; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm212 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Simon A. A. Travers, Damien C. Tully, Grace P. McCormack, and Mario A. Fares
A Study of the Coevolutionary Patterns Operating within the env Gene of the HIV-1 Group M Subtypes
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2787-2801; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Lori A. S. Snyder, Simon McGowan, Matthew Rogers, Eris Duro, Ewan O'Farrell, and Nigel J. Saunders
The Repertoire of Minimal Mobile Elements in the Neisseria Species and Evidence That These Are Involved in Horizontal Gene Transfer in Other Bacteria
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2802-2815; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm215 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew A. Streisfeld and Mark D. Rausher
Relaxed Constraint and Evolutionary Rate Variation between Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Floral Anthocyanin Regulators in Ipomoea
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2816-2826; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm216 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Shehre-Banoo Malik, Marilee A. Ramesh, Alissa M. Hulstrand, and John M. Logsdon, Jr.
Protist Homologs of the Meiotic Spo11 Gene and Topoisomerase VI reveal an Evolutionary History of Gene Duplication and Lineage-Specific Loss
MBE Advance Access published on October 5, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2827-2841; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm217 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington and Jacek Majewski
Intron Loss and Gain in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on October 27, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2842-2850; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm235 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

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Marta L. Wayne, Treasurer
Treasurer's Report for Financial Year 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2842; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm230 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2007, Halifax, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2852-2853; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm231 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Martin and June 2007
Editor's Report for 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2854-2856; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm224 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Index Back

MBE Reviewers volume 24
Mol Biol Evol 2007 24: 2857; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm233 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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