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Research Article
Trevor Bedford and Daniel L. Hartl
Overdispersion Of The Molecular Clock: Temporal Variation Of Gene-Specific Substitution Rates In Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn112
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Research Article
B. Malyarchuk, T. Grzybowski, M. Derenko, M. Perkova, T. Vanecek, J. Lazur, P. Gomolcak, and I. Tsybovsky
Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny in Eastern and Western Slavs
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn114
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Research Article
John F. Baines, Stanley A. Sawyer, Daniel L. Hartl, and John Parsch
Effects of X-linkage and sex-biased gene expression on the rate of adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn111
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Research Article
Navin Elango and Soojin V. Yi
DNA METHYLATION AND STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL BIMODALITY OF VERTEBRATE PROMOTERS
MBE Advance Access published on May 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn110
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Research Article
Natalya Yutin, Kira S. Makarova, Sergey L. Mekhedov, Yuri I. Wolf, and Eugene V. Koonin
The deep archaeal roots of eukaryotes
MBE Advance Access published on May 6, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn108
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Research Article
Wendy E. Grus and Jianzhi Zhang
Distinct evolutionary patterns between chemoreceptors of two vertebrate olfactory systems and the differential tuning hypothesis
MBE Advance Access published on May 5, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn107
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Research Article
William Ferguson, Shira Dvora, Juliana Gallo, Annie Orth, and Stéphane Boissinot
Long-Term Balancing Selection at the West-Nile Virus Resistance Gene, Oas1b, Maintains Trans-Specific Polymorphisms in the House Mouse
MBE Advance Access published on May 5, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn106
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Research Article
Barry G. Hall
How well does the HoT score reflect sequence alignment accuracy?
MBE Advance Access published on May 4, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn103
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Research Article
Zengyan Xie, Xia Li, Beverley J. Glover, Shunong Bai, Guang-Yuan Rao, Jingchu Luo, and Ji Yang
Duplication and functional diversification of HAP3 genes leading to the origin of the seed-developmental regulatory gene, LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1), in non-seed plant genomes
MBE Advance Access published on May 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn105
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Research Article
Arjun B. Prasad, Marc W. Allard, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, and Eric D. Green
Confirming the Phylogeny of Mammals by Use of Large Comparative Sequence Datasets
MBE Advance Access published on May 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn104
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Research Article
Minoru Ueda, Tomotaro Nishikawa, Masaru Fujimoto, Hideki Takanashi, Shin-ichi Arimura, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, and Koh-ichi Kadowaki
Substitution of the gene for chloroplast RPS16 was assisted by generation of a dual targeting signal
MBE Advance Access published on May 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn102
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Research Article
Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang
Co-expression of Linked Genes in Mammalian Genomes is Generally Disadvantageous
MBE Advance Access published on April 24, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn101
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Research Article
Clévio Nóbrega, Mahnaz Kahdem, Montserrat Aguadé, and Carmen Segarra
Genetic exchange vs genetic differentiation in a medium-sized inversion of Drosophila: the A2/Ast arrangements of D. subobscura
MBE Advance Access published on April 23, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn100
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Research Article
Verónica Martín and Esteban Domingo
Influence of the mutant spectrum in viral evolution: focused selection of antigenic variants in a reconstructed viral quasispecies
MBE Advance Access published on April 23, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn099
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Research Article
Nicole Gruenheit, Peter J. Lockhart, Mike Steel, and William Martin
Difficulties in Testing for Covarion-Like Properties of Sequences Under the Confounding Influence of Changing Proportions of Variable Sites
MBE Advance Access published on April 18, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn098
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Sutada Mungpakdee, Hee-Chan Seo, Anna Rita Angotzi, Xianjun Dong, Altuna Akalin, and Daniel Chourrout
Differential Evolution of the Thirteen Atlantic Salmon Hox Clusters
MBE Advance Access published on April 18, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn097
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Research Article
Ligia M. Mateiu and Bruce Rannala
Bayesian Inference of Errors in Ancient DNA Caused by Post Mortem Degradation
MBE Advance Access published on April 16, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn095
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Research Article
Rui Zhang, Yin-Qiu Wang, and Bing Su
Molecular evolution of a primate-specific microRNA family
MBE Advance Access published on April 15, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn094
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Research Article
Cadhla Ramsden, Fernando L. Melo, Luiz. M. Figueiredo, Edward C. Holmes, Paolo M.A. Zanotto, and the VGDN Consortium
High Rates of Molecular Evolution in Hantaviruses.
MBE Advance Access published on April 15, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn093
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Research Article
Tanja Slotte, Huirun Huang, Martin Lascoux, and Alf Ceplitis
Polyploid speciation did not confer instant reproductive isolation in Capsella (Brassicaceae)
MBE Advance Access published on April 15, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn092
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Research Article
Andrew J. Heidel and Gernot Glöckner
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in the Social Amoebae
MBE Advance Access published on April 15, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn088
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Research Article
Vladimir N. Minin, Erik W. Bloomquist, and Marc A. Suchard
Smooth Skyride through a Rough Skyline: Bayesian Coalescent-Based Inference of Population Dynamics
MBE Advance Access published on April 11, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn090
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Research Article
Chuanzhu Fan, Ying Chen, and Manyuan Long
Recurrent Tandem Gene Duplication Gave Rise to Functionally Divergent Genes in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on April 11, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn089
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Research Article
Shigeki Nakagome, Jill Pecon-Slattery, and Ryuichi Masuda
Unequal Rates of Y chromosome Gene Divergence during Speciation of the Family Ursidae
MBE Advance Access published on April 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn086
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Research Article
Corrinne E. Grover, Yeisoo Yu, Rod A. Wing, Andrew H. Paterson, and Jonathan F. Wendel
A phylogenetic analysis of indel dynamics in the cotton genus
MBE Advance Access published on April 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn085
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Research Article
Mareike Rüdinger, Monika Polsakiewicz, and Volker Knoop
Organellar RNA editing and plant-specific extensions of pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins in jungermanniid but not in marchantiid liverworts
MBE Advance Access published on April 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn084
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Research Article
Benjamin N. Sacks, Danika L. Bannasch, Bruno B. Chomel, and Holly B. Ernest
Coyotes demonstrate how habitat specialization by individuals of a generalist species can diversify populations in a heterogeneous ecoregion
MBE Advance Access published on April 7, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn082
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Research Article
Kenji K. Kojima and Minoru Kanehisa
Systematic survey for novel types of prokaryotic retroelements based on gene neighborhood and protein architecture
MBE Advance Access published on April 7, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn081
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Research Article
André M. Comeau and Henry M. Krisch
The Capsid of the T4 Phage Superfamily: The Evolution, Diversity, and Structure of Some of the Most Prevalent Proteins in the Biosphere
MBE Advance Access published on April 7, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn080
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Research Article
John Paul Foxe, Vaqaar-un-Nisa Dar, Honggang Zheng, Magnus Nordborg, Brandon S. Gaut, and Stephen I. Wright
Selection on amino acid substitutions in Arabidopsis
MBE Advance Access published on April 4, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn079
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Research Article
Manfred Kayser, Ying Choi, Mannis van Oven, Stefano Mona, Silke Brauer, Dagwin Suarkia, Wulf Schiefenhövel, and Mark Stoneking
The impact of the Austronesian expansion: evidence from mtDNA and Y-chromosome diversity in the Admiralty Islands of Melanesia
MBE Advance Access published on April 3, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn078
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Research Article
MA Chapman, JH Leebens-Mack, and JM Burke
Positive selection and expression divergence following gene duplication in the sunflower CYCLOIDEA gene family
MBE Advance Access published on April 3, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn001
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Research Article
Xinjiang Cai
Unicellular Ca2+ Signaling ‘Toolkit’ at the Origin of Metazoa
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn077
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Research Article
Supriya V. Kadam, Sigrun Wegener-Feldbrügge, Lotte Søgaard-Andersen, and Gregory J. Velicer
Novel transcriptome patterns accompany evolutionary restoration of defective social development in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn076
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Research Article
Claudio H. Slamovits and Patrick J. Keeling
Plastid-Derived Genes in the Non-Photosynthetic Alveolate Oxyrrhis marina
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn075
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Research Article
David F. Soria-Hernanz, John M. Braverman, and Matthew B. Hamilton
Parallel Rate Heterogeneity in Chloroplast and Mitochondrial Genomes of Brazil Nut Trees (Lecythidaceae) is Consistent with Lineage Effects.
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn074
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Research Article
Si Quang Le and Olivier Gascuel
An Improved General Amino-Acid Replacement Matrix
MBE Advance Access published on March 26, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn067
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Research Article
Jing He, David M. Irwin, and Ya-ping Zhang
Insights into the Evolution of the Motilin/Ghrelin-Associated Family and Their Receptors
MBE Advance Access published on September 28, 2007.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msm161
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Letter
Marek Elias
The guanine nucleotide exchange factors Sec2 and PRONE: candidate synapomorphies for the Opisthokonta and the Archaeplastida
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn113
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Letter
Manuel Irimia, Ignacio Maeso, and Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Convergent evolution of clustering of Iroquois homeobox genes across metazoans
MBE Advance Access published on May 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn109
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Letter
Graham Coop, Kevin Bullaughey, Francesca Luca, and Molly Przeworski
The Timing of Selection at the Human FOXP2 Gene
MBE Advance Access published on April 15, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn091
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Letter
David Posada
jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging
MBE Advance Access published on April 8, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn083
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Article
Verónica Garrocho-Villegas and Raúl Arredondo-Peter
Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a Moss (Ceratodon purpureus) Non-Symbiotic Hemoglobin Provides Insight into the Early Evolution of Plant Non-Symbiotic Hemoglobins
MBE Advance Access published on April 16, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn096
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Article
Daniela Brites, Seanna McTaggart, Krystalynne Morris, Jobriah Anderson, Kelley Thomas, Isabelle Colson, Thomas Fabbro, Tom Little, Dieter Ebert, and Louis Du Pasquier
The Dscam Homologue of the Crustacean Daphnia is Diversified by Alternative Splicing Like in Insects
MBE Advance Access published on April 9, 2008.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msn087
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