Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letters

Get checked abstract Scott William Roy and David Penny

Smoke Without Fire: Most Reported Cases of Intron Gain in Nematodes Instead Reflect Intron Losses
MBE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2259-2262; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yao-wu Yuan, Zhi-yun Zhang, Zhi-duan Chen, and Richard G. Olmstead

Tracking Ancient Polyploids: A Retroposon Insertion Reveals an Extinct Diploid Ancestor in the Polyploid Origin of Belladonna
MBE Advance Access published on August 30, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2263-2267; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Peter A. Underhill, and Marcus W. Feldman

Difference between Evolutionarily Effective and Germ line Mutation Rate Due to Stochastically Varying Haplogroup Size
MBE Advance Access published on September 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2268-2270; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Woodhams

Can Deleterious Mutations Explain the Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates?
MBE Advance Access published on September 7, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2271-2273; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcio R. Pie

The Influence of Phylogenetic Uncertainty on the Detection of Positive Darwinian Selection
MBE Advance Access published on September 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2274-2278; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ziheng Yang

On the Varied Pattern of Evolution of 2 Fungal Genomes: A Critique of Hughes and Friedman
MBE Advance Access published on September 18, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2279-2282; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl122 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sankar Subramanian and Sudhir Kumar

Higher Intensity of Purifying Selection on >90% of the Human Genes Revealed by the Intrinsic Replacement Mutation Rates
MBE Advance Access published on September 18, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2283-2287; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl123 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles

Get checked abstract Abdel Aouacheria, Christophe Geourjon, Nushin Aghajari, Vincent Navratil, Gilbert Deléage, Claire Lethias, and Jean-Yves Exposito

Insights into Early Extracellular Matrix Evolution: Spongin Short Chain Collagen-Related Proteins Are Homologous to Basement Membrane Type IV Collagens and Form a Novel Family Widely Distributed in Invertebrates
MBE Advance Access published on August 31, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2288-2302; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl100 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Asher D. Cutter, James D. Wasmuth, and Mark L. Blaxter

The Evolution of Biased Codon and Amino Acid Usage in Nematode Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on August 25, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2303-2315; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl097 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nevenka Mestrovic, Philippe Castagnone-Sereno, and Miroslav Plohl

Interplay of Selective Pressure and Stochastic Events Directs Evolution of the MEL172 Satellite DNA Library in Root-Knot Nematodes
MBE Advance Access published on September 18, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2316-2325; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl119 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Li Yu and Ya-ping Zhang

The Unusual Adaptive Expansion of Pancreatic Ribonuclease Gene in Carnivora
MBE Advance Access published on August 31, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2326-2335; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rubing Chen and Edward C. Holmes

Avian Influenza Virus Exhibits Rapid Evolutionary Dynamics
MBE Advance Access published on August 31, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2336-2341; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David S. Guttman, Susan J. Gropp, Robyn L. Morgan, and Pauline W. Wang

Diversifying Selection Drives the Evolution of the Type III Secretion System Pilus of Pseudomonas syringae
MBE Advance Access published on September 1, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2342-2354; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mary K. Kuhner

Robustness of Coalescent Estimators to Between-Lineage Mutation Rate Variation
MBE Advance Access published on September 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2355-2360; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Frédéric Choulet, Bertrand Aigle, Alexandre Gallois, Sophie Mangenot, Claude Gerbaud, Chantal Truong, François-Xavier Francou, Céline Fourrier, Michel Guérineau, Bernard Decaris, Valérie Barbe, Jean-Luc Pernodet, and Pierre Leblond

Evolution of the Terminal Regions of the Streptomyces Linear Chromosome
MBE Advance Access published on September 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2361-2369; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract N Derome and L Bernatchez

The Transcriptomics of Ecological Convergence between 2 Limnetic Coregonine Fishes (Salmonidae)
MBE Advance Access published on September 8, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2370-2378; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pradeep Reddy Marri, Weilong Hao, and G. Brian Golding

Gene Gain and Gene Loss in Streptococcus: Is It Driven by Habitat?
MBE Advance Access published on September 11, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2379-2391; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Xin Hong, Douglas G. Scofield, and Michael Lynch

Intron Size, Abundance, and Distribution within Untranslated Regions of Genes
MBE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2392-2404; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Minoru Ueda, Masaru Fujimoto, Shin-ichi Arimura, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, and Koh-ichi Kadowaki

Evidence for Transit Peptide Acquisition through Duplication and Subsequent Frameshift Mutation of a Preexisting Protein Gene in Rice
MBE Advance Access published on September 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2405-2412; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sven B. Gould, Maik S. Sommer, Peter G. Kroth, Gillian H. Gile, Patrick J. Keeling, and Uwe-G. Maier

Nucleus-to-Nucleus Gene Transfer and Protein Retargeting into a Remnant Cytoplasm of Cryptophytes and Diatoms
MBE Advance Access published on September 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2413-2422; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ignacio Marín

The Parkinson Disease Gene LRRK2: Evolutionary and Structural Insights
MBE Advance Access published on September 11, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2423-2433; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zhimou Wen, Sanjeewa Rupasinghe, Guodong Niu, May R. Berenbaum, and Mary A. Schuler

CYP6B1 and CYP6B3 of the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes): Adaptive Evolution through Subfunctionalization
MBE Advance Access published on September 19, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2434-2443; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Minglei Wang and Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Global Phylogeny Determined by the Combination of Protein Domains in Proteomes
MBE Advance Access published on September 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2444-2454; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eunsoo Kim, Alastair G. B. Simpson, and Linda E. Graham

Evolutionary Relationships of Apusomonads Inferred from Taxon-Rich Analyses of 6 Nuclear Encoded Genes
MBE Advance Access published on September 18, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2455-2466; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Li Li, Yingwu Huang, Xuefeng Xia, and Zhirong Sun

Preferential Duplication in the Sparse Part of Yeast Protein Interaction Network
MBE Advance Access published on September 15, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2467-2473; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Margaret S. Snoke, Thomas U. Berendonk, Dana Barth, and Michael Lynch

Large Global Effective Population Sizes in Paramecium
MBE Advance Access published on September 20, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2474-2479; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Catherine Hill, Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, Vincent Macaulay, William Meehan, James Blackburn, Douglas Clarke, Joseph Maripa Raja, Patimah Ismail, David Bulbeck, Stephen Oppenheimer, and Martin Richards

Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians
MBE Advance Access published on September 18, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2480-2491; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Judith Nardmann and Wolfgang Werr

The Shoot Stem Cell Niche in Angiosperms: Expression Patterns of WUS Orthologues in Rice and Maize Imply Major Modifications in the Course of Mono- and Dicot Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on September 20, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2492-2504; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl125 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hye-Ran Lee, Pavel Neumann, Jiri Macas, and Jiming Jiang

Transcription and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Centromeric Satellite Repeat CentO in Rice
MBE Advance Access published on September 20, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2505-2520; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

Marta L. Wayne

Treasurer's Report for Financial Year 2005: Prepared by Marta L. Wayne, Treasurer
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2521; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl109 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2006, Tempe, Arizona
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2522-2524; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William Martin

Editor's Report for 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2525-2527; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl126 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Index

MBE Reviewers Volume 23
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 2528-2532; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl134 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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