Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letters

Get checked abstract Jianli Wang, Alison P. Lee, Rimantas Kodzius, Sydney Brenner, and Byrappa Venkatesh

Large Number of Ultraconserved Elements Were Already Present in the Jawed Vertebrate Ancestor
MBE Advance Access published on December 3, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 487-490; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn278 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Omar De la Cruz, Ran Blekhman, Xiaohong Zhang, Dan Nicolae, Stuart Firestein, and Yoav Gilad

A Signature of Evolutionary Constraint on a Subset of Ectopically Expressed Olfactory Receptor Genes
MBE Advance Access published on December 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 491-494; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn294 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Karin Schaefer and Christian Brösamle

Zwilling-A and -B, Two Related Myelin Proteins of Teleosts, Which Originate from a Single Bicistronic Transcript
MBE Advance Access published on January 6, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 495-499; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn298 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles

Get checked abstract Josefa González, J. Michael Macpherson, Philipp W. Messer, and Dmitri A. Petrov

Inferring the Strength of Selection in Drosophila under Complex Demographic Models
MBE Advance Access published on November 24, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 513-526; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn270 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephanie A. Pearl, Mark E. Welch, and David E. McCauley

Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy and Paternal Leakage in Natural Populations of Silene vulgaris, a Gynodioecious Plant
MBE Advance Access published on November 24, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 537-545; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn273 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Greta J. Binford, Melissa R. Bodner, Matthew H.J. Cordes, Katherine L. Baldwin, Melody R. Rynerson, Scott N. Burns, and Pamela A. Zobel-Thropp

Molecular Evolution, Functional Variation, and Proposed Nomenclature of the Gene Family That Includes Sphingomyelinase D in Sicariid Spider Venoms
MBE Advance Access published on November 28, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 547-566; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn274 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract H. Dawn Marshall, Mark W. Coulson, and Steven M. Carr

Near Neutrality, Rate Heterogeneity, and Linkage Govern Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) and Other Gadine Fish
MBE Advance Access published on December 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 579-589; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn279 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John G. Gibbons and Antonis Rokas

Comparative and Functional Characterization of Intragenic Tandem Repeats in 10 Aspergillus Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on December 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 591-602; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn277 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Macarena Toll-Riera, Nina Bosch, Nicolás Bellora, Robert Castelo, Lluis Armengol, Xavier Estivill, and M. Mar Albà

Origin of Primate Orphan Genes: A Comparative Genomics Approach
MBE Advance Access published on December 8, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 603-612; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn281 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zhe Wang, Lihong Yuan, Stephen J. Rossiter, Xueguo Zuo, Binghua Ru, Hui Zhong, Naijian Han, Gareth Jones, Paul D. Jepson, and Shuyi Zhang

Adaptive Evolution of 5'HoxD Genes in the Origin and Diversification of the Cetacean Flipper
MBE Advance Access published on December 10, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 613-622; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn282 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yusuke Yamanoue, Masaki Miya, Keiichi Matsuura, Seita Miyazawa, Naofumi Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Doi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kohji Mabuchi, Mutsumi Nishida, and Harumi Sakai

Explosive Speciation of Takifugu: Another Use of Fugu as a Model System for Evolutionary Biology
MBE Advance Access published on December 12, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 623-629; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn283 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Monique Turmel, Marie-Christine Gagnon, Charley J. O'Kelly, Christian Otis, and Claude Lemieux

The Chloroplast Genomes of the Green Algae Pyramimonas, Monomastix, and Pycnococcus Shed New light on the Evolutionary History of Prasinophytes and the Origin of the Secondary Chloroplasts of Euglenids
MBE Advance Access published on December 12, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 631-648; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Naomi Phillips, Matthew Salomon, Andrew Custer, Dejerianne Ostrow, and Charles F. Baer

Spontaneous Mutational and Standing Genetic (Co)variation at Dinucleotide Microsatellites in Caenorhabditis briggsae and Caenorhabditis elegans
MBE Advance Access published on December 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 659-669; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn287 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mascha Pusnik, Fabien Charrière, Pascal Mäser, Ross F. Waller, Michael J. Dagley, Trevor Lithgow, and André Schneider

The Single Mitochondrial Porin of Trypanosoma brucei is the Main Metabolite Transporter in the Outer Mitochondrial Membrane
MBE Advance Access published on December 17, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 671-680; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn288 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Demetrios Vassilakos, Ada Natoli, Marilyn Dahlheim, and A. Rus Hoelzel

Balancing and Directional Selection at Exon-2 of the MHC DQB1 Locus among Populations of Odontocete Cetaceans
MBE Advance Access published on January 6, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 681-689; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn296 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract John Parsch, Zhi Zhang, and John F. Baines

The Influence of Demography and Weak Selection on the McDonald–Kreitman Test: An Empirical Study in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on January 6, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 691-698; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn297 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ana L. Caicedo, Christina Richards, Ian M. Ehrenreich, and Michael D. Purugganan

Complex Rearrangements Lead to Novel Chimeric Gene Fusion Polymorphisms at the Arabidopsis thaliana MAF2-5 Flowering Time Gene Cluster
MBE Advance Access published on January 12, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 699-711; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn300 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Errata

Shigehiro Kuraku, Axel Meyer, and Shigeru Kuratani

Timing of Genome Duplications Relative to the Origin of the Vertebrates: Did Cyclostomes Diverge before or after?
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 713; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn295 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brenna M. Henn, Christopher R. Gignoux, Marcus W. Feldman, and Joanna L. Mountain

Characterizing the Time Dependency of Human Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate Estimates
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 713; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn304 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jing He, David M. Irwin, and Ya-ping Zhang

Insights into the evolution of themotilin/ghrelin-associated family and their receptors
MBE Advance Access published on August 16, 2007
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: NP; doi:10.1093/molbev/msm161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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