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Farhan Ali and Rudolf Meier
Positive Selection in ASPM Is Correlated with Cerebral Cortex Evolution across Primates but Not with Whole-Brain Size
MBE Advance Access published on August 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2247-2250; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn184 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Uwe K. Simon and Michael Weiß
Intragenomic Variation of Fungal Ribosomal Genes Is Higher than Previously Thought
MBE Advance Access published on August 26, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2251-2254; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn188 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Douglas G. Scofield and Michael Lynch
Evolutionary Diversification of the Sm Family of RNA-Associated Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on August 7, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2255-2267; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn175 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Saverio Vicario, Christopher E. Mason, Kevin P. White, and Jeffrey R. Powell
Developmental Stage and Level of Codon Usage Bias in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on August 28, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2269-2277; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn189 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Paul G. Higgs and Wenqi Ran
Coevolution of Codon Usage and tRNA Genes Leads to Alternative Stable States of Biased Codon Usage
MBE Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2279-2291; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn173 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Séverine Jancek, Sébastien Gourbière, Hervé Moreau, and Gwenaël Piganeau
Clues about the Genetic Basis of Adaptation Emerge from Comparing the Proteomes of Two Ostreococcus Ecotypes (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae)
MBE Advance Access published on August 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2293-2300; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn168 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Robert C. Karn, Nathaniel L. Clark, Eric D. Nguyen, and Willie J. Swanson
Adaptive Evolution in Rodent Seminal Vesicle Secretion Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on August 20, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2301-2310; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn182 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Shimon Bershtein and Dan S. Tawfik
Ohno's Model Revisited: Measuring the Frequency of Potentially Adaptive Mutations under Various Mutational Drifts
MBE Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2311-2318; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Victor Soria-Carrasco and Jose Castresana
Estimation of Phylogenetic Inconsistencies in the Three Domains of Life
MBE Advance Access published on August 12, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2319-2329; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn176 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fernando Cruz, Carles Vilà, and Matthew T. Webster
The Legacy of Domestication: Accumulation of Deleterious Mutations in the Dog Genome
MBE Advance Access published on August 9, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2331-2336; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn177 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Kálmán Somogyi, Botond Sipos, Zsolt Pénzes, Éva Kurucz, János Zsámboki, Dan Hultmark, and István Andó
Evolution of Genes and Repeats in the Nimrod Superfamily
MBE Advance Access published on August 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2337-2347; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn180 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Justin C. Havird, Michael M. Miyamoto, Keith P. Choe, and David H. Evans
Gene Duplications and Losses within the Cyclooxygenase Family of Teleosts and Other Chordates
MBE Advance Access published on August 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2349-2359; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn183 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Pascal-Antoine Christin, Nicolas Salamin, A. Muthama Muasya, Eric H. Roalson, Flavien Russier, and Guillaume Besnard
Evolutionary Switch and Genetic Convergence on rbcL following the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis
MBE Advance Access published on August 11, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2361-2368; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn178 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Ignacio Luque, María Loreto Riera-Alberola, Alfonso Andújar, and Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda
Intraphylum Diversity and Complex Evolution of Cyanobacterial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
MBE Advance Access published on September 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2369-2389; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn197 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Paula Juárez, Iñaki Comas, Fernando González-Candelas, and Juan J. Calvete
Evolution of Snake Venom Disintegrins by Positive Darwinian Selection
MBE Advance Access published on August 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2391-2407; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn179 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Lynch
Estimation of Nucleotide Diversity, Disequilibrium Coefficients, and Mutation Rates from High-Coverage Genome-Sequencing Projects
MBE Advance Access published on August 25, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2409-2419; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn185 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shamoni Maheshwari, Jun Wang, and Daniel A. Barbash
Recurrent Positive Selection of the Drosophila Hybrid Incompatibility Gene Hmr
MBE Advance Access published on August 28, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2421-2430; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn190 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Sergio Barberan-Soler and Alan M. Zahler
Alternative Splicing and the Steady-State Ratios of mRNA Isoforms Generated by It Are under Strong Stabilizing Selection in Caenorhabditis elegans
MBE Advance Access published on August 20, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2431-2437; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn181 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Mohamed A. F. Noor
Mutagenesis from Meiotic Recombination Is Not a Primary Driver of Sequence Divergence between Saccharomyces Species
MBE Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2439-2444; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn186 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Michael S. Barker, Nolan C. Kane, Marta Matvienko, Alexander Kozik, Richard W. Michelmore, Steven J. Knapp, and Loren H. Rieseberg
Multiple Paleopolyploidizations during the Evolution of the Compositae Reveal Parallel Patterns of Duplicate Gene Retention after Millions of Years
MBE Advance Access published on August 26, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2445-2455; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn187 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Takeshi Tsuru and Ichizo Kobayashi
Multiple Genome Comparison within a Bacterial Species Reveals a Unit of Evolution Spanning Two Adjacent Genes in a Tandem Paralog Cluster
MBE Advance Access published on September 2, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2457-2473; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn192 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Vicente Pérez-Brocal and C. Graham Clark
Analysis of Two Genomes from the Mitochondrion-Like Organelle of the Intestinal Parasite Blastocystis: Complete Sequences, Gene Content, and Genome Organization
MBE Advance Access published on September 2, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2475-2482; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn193 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Robert Piskol and Wolfgang Stephan
Analyzing the Evolution of RNA Secondary Structures in Vertebrate Introns Using Kimura's Model of Compensatory Fitness Interactions
MBE Advance Access published on September 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2483-2492; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn195 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Maria D. S. Nunes, Viola Nolte, and Christian Schlötterer
Nonrandom Wolbachia Infection Status of Drosophila melanogaster Strains with Different mtDNA Haplotypes
MBE Advance Access published on September 9, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2493-2498; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn199 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

N. C. Sheffield, H. Song, S. L. Cameron, and M. F. Whiting
A Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) and Genome Descriptions of Six New Beetles
MBE Advance Access published on September 8, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2499-2509; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn198 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Erratum Back

Scott William Roy and Manuel Irimia
Origins of Human Malaria: Rare Genomic Changes and Full Mitochondrial Genomes Confirm the Relationship of Plasmodium falciparum to Other Mammalian Parasites but Complicate the Origins of Plasmodium vivax
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 2511; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn191 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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