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Claudia Acquisti, James J. Elser, and Sudhir Kumar
Ecological Nitrogen Limitation Shapes the DNA Composition of Plant Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 953-956; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Narayanan Raghupathy and Dannie Durand
Gene Cluster Statistics with Gene Families
MBE Advance Access published on January 15, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 957-968; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp002 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Nicole Lewis-Rogers, Matthew L. Bendall, and Keith A. Crandall
Phylogenetic Relationships and Molecular Adaptation Dynamics of Human Rhinoviruses
MBE Advance Access published on January 30, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 969-981; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp009 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Weidong Bao, Matthew G. Jurka, Vladimir V. Kapitonov, and Jerzy Jurka
New Superfamilies of Eukaryotic DNA Transposons and Their Internal Divisions
MBE Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 983-993; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Kari B. Schroeder, Mattias Jakobsson, Michael H. Crawford, Theodore G. Schurr, Simina M. Boca, Donald F. Conrad, Raul Y. Tito, Ludmilla P. Osipova, Larissa A. Tarskaia, Sergey I. Zhadanov, Jeffrey D. Wall, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Ripan S. Malhi, David G. Smith, and Noah A. Rosenberg
Haplotypic Background of a Private Allele at High Frequency in the Americas
MBE Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 995-1016; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

James X. Sun, James C. Mullikin, Nick Patterson, and David E. Reich
Microsatellites Are Molecular Clocks That Support Accurate Inferences about History
MBE Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1017-1027; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Børge A. Kristoffersen, Audun Nerland, Frank Nilsen, Jelena Kolarevic, and Roderick Nigel Finn
Genomic and Proteomic Analyses Reveal Non–Neofunctionalized Vitellogenins in a Basal Clupeocephalan, the Atlantic Herring, and Point to the Origin of Maturational Yolk Proteolysis in Marine Teleosts
MBE Advance Access published on January 27, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1029-1044; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather Ramsay, Loren H. Rieseberg, and Kermit Ritland
The Correlation of Evolutionary Rate with Pathway Position in Plant Terpenoid Biosynthesis
MBE Advance Access published on February 2, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1045-1053; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Simon G. Williams and Simon C. Lovell
The Effect of Sequence Evolution on Protein Structural Divergence
MBE Advance Access published on February 4, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1055-1065; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp020 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-François Gout, Laurent Duret, and Daniel Kahn
Differential Retention of Metabolic Genes Following Whole-Genome Duplication
MBE Advance Access published on February 13, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1067-1072; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Erik Axelsson and Hans Ellegren
Quantification of Adaptive Evolution of Genes Expressed in Avian Brain and the Population Size Effect on the Efficacy of Selection
MBE Advance Access published on February 2, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1073-1079; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jianning Lv, Yun Yang, Heng Yin, Fengjiao Chu, Haitao Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Yaozhou Zhang, and Yongfeng Jin
Molecular Determinants and Evolutionary Dynamics of Wobble Splicing
MBE Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1081-1092; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp023 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Turi E. King and Mark A. Jobling
Founders, Drift, and Infidelity: The Relationship between Y Chromosome Diversity and Patrilineal Surnames
MBE Advance Access published on February 9, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1093-1102; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp022 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Victor C. Li, Jerel C. Davis, Kapa Lenkov, Benjamin Bolival, Margaret T. Fuller, and Dmitri A. Petrov
Molecular Evolution of the Testis TAFs of Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on February 25, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1103-1116; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Kimberley A. Johnstone, Kate L. Ciborowski, Krzysztof P. Lubieniecki, William Chow, Ruth B. Phillips, Ben F. Koop, William C. Jordan, and William S. Davidson
Genomic Organization and Evolution of the Vomeronasal Type 2 Receptor-Like (OlfC) Gene Clusters in Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar
MBE Advance Access published on February 12, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1117-1125; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp027 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Cameron J. Weadick and Belinda S.W. Chang
Molecular Evolution of the β{gamma} Lens Crystallin Superfamily: Evidence for a Retained Ancestral Function in {gamma}N Crystallins?
MBE Advance Access published on February 20, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1127-1142; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

José Ignacio Lucas-Lledó and Michael Lynch
Evolution of Mutation Rates: Phylogenomic Analysis of the Photolyase/Cryptochrome Family
MBE Advance Access published on February 19, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1143-1153; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin C. Conant and Peter F. Stadler
Solvent Exposure Imparts Similar Selective Pressures across a Range of Yeast Proteins
MBE Advance Access published on February 20, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1155-1161; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Mrázek
Phylogenetic Signals in DNA Composition: Limitations and Prospects
MBE Advance Access published on February 20, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1163-1169; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp032 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Yuji Inagaki, Yoshihiro Nakajima, Mitsuhisa Sato, Miako Sakaguchi, and Tetsuo Hashimoto
Gene Sampling Can Bias Multi-Gene Phylogenetic Inferences: The Relationship between Red Algae and Green Plants as a Case Study
MBE Advance Access published on February 26, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1171-1178; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Sabyasachi Das
Evolutionary Origin and Genomic Organization of Micro-RNA Genes in Immunoglobulin Lambda Variable Region Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on February 26, 2009
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1179-1189; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Besant K. Tiwary and Wen-Hsiung Li
Parallel Evolution between Aromatase and Androgen Receptor in the Animal Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1191; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn292 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jinghua Hu and Jeffrey L. Blanchard
Environmental Sequence Data from the Sargasso Sea Reveal That the Characteristics of Genome Reduction in Prochlorococcus Are Not a Harbinger for an Escalation in Genetic Drift
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1191; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn299 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Dan Graur
About the Cover: 1859 and All That
Mol Biol Evol 2009 26: 1193; doi:10.1093/molbev/msp055 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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