Molecular Biology and Evolution

Proceedings of the SMBE Tri-National Young Investigators' Workshop 2005:

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 3rd Young Investigators' Workshop: www.smbe.org
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 847; doi:10.1093/molbev/msk020 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Barbara R. Holland, Lars S. Jermiin, and Vincent Moulton

Improved Consensus Network Techniques for Genome-Scale Phylogeny
MBE Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 848-855; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher E. Lane, Hameed Khan, Melissa MacKinnon, Anna Fong, Stan Theophilou, and John M. Archibald

Insight into the Diversity and Evolution of the Cryptomonad Nucleomorph Genome
MBE Advance Access published on November 23, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 856-865; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masato Nikaido, Healy Hamilton, Hitomi Makino, Takeshi Sasaki, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mutsuo Goto, Naohisa Kanda, Luis A. Pastene, and Norihiro Okada

Baleen Whale Phylogeny and a Past Extensive Radiation Event Revealed by SINE Insertion Analysis
MBE Advance Access published on December 5, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 866-873; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj071 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Mark I. Stevens, Penelope Greenslade, Ian D. Hogg, and Paul Sunnucks

Southern Hemisphere Springtails: Could Any Have Survived Glaciation of Antarctica?
MBE Advance Access published on December 2, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 874-882; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Anthony J. Greenberg and Chung-I Wu

Molecular Genetics of Natural Populations
MBE Advance Access published on December 16, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 883-886; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen D. Crow and Günter P. Wagner

What Is the Role of Genome Duplication in the Evolution of Complexity and Diversity?
MBE Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 887-892; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew C. Clarke, Michael K. Burtenshaw, Patricia A. McLenachan, David L. Erickson, and David Penny

Reconstructing the Origins and Dispersal of the Polynesian Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)
MBE Advance Access published on January 9, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 893-900; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Lesley Collins and David Penny

Investigating the Intron Recognition Mechanism in Eukaryotes
MBE Advance Access published on December 21, 2005
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 901-910; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew W. Hahn

Accurate Inference and Estimation in Population Genomics
MBE Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 911-918; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stéphane Guindon, Mik Black, and Allen Rodrigo

Control of the False Discovery Rate Applied to the Detection of Positively Selected Amino Acid Sites
MBE Advance Access published on January 19, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 919-926; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kiyoshi Ezawa, Satoshi OOta, and Naruya Saitou

Genome-Wide Search of Gene Conversions in Duplicated Genes of Mouse and Rat
MBE Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 927-940; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Junko Kusumi, Aya Sato, and Hidenori Tachida

Relaxation of Functional Constraint on Light-Independent Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase in Thuja
MBE Advance Access published on January 20, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 941-948; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj097 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Hilary C. Miller, Katherine Belov, and Charles H. Daugherty

MHC Class I Genes in the Tuatara (Sphenodon spp.): Evolution of the MHC in an Ancient Reptilian Order
MBE Advance Access published on January 24, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 949-956; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ralph Haygood

Mutation Rate and the Cost of Complexity
MBE Advance Access published on February 9, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 957-963; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Yasuhiro Go

Lineage-Specific Expansions and Contractions of the Bitter Taste Receptor Gene Repertoire in Vertebrates
MBE Advance Access published on February 16, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 964-972; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Leonie C. Moyle and Elaine B. Graham

Genome-Wide Associations Between Hybrid Sterility QTL and Marker Transmission Ratio Distortion
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 973-980; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Masafumi Nozawa, Masahiko Kumagai, Tadashi Aotsuka, and Koichiro Tamura

Unusual Evolution of Interspersed Repeat Sequences in the Drosophila ananassae Subgroup
MBE Advance Access published on February 8, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 981-987; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Greg Ewing and Allen Rodrigo

Coalescent-Based Estimation of Population Parameters When the Number of Demes Changes Over Time
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 988-996; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Araceli M. Huerta, Julio Collado-Vides, and M. Pilar Francino

Positional Conservation of Clusters of Overlapping Promoter-Like Sequences in Enterobacterial Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on March 17, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 997-1010; doi:10.1093/molbev/msk004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Aurora M. Nedelcu, Tudor Borza, and Robert W. Lee

A Land Plant–Specific Multigene Family in the Unicellular Mesostigma Argues for Its Close Relationship to Streptophyta
MBE Advance Access published on February 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1011-1015; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

M. Imwong, D. Sudimack, S. Pukrittayakamee, L. Osorio, J. M. Carlton, N. P. J. Day, N. J. White, and T. J. C. Anderson

Microsatellite Variation, Repeat Array Length, and Population History of Plasmodium vivax
MBE Advance Access published on February 28, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1016-1018; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj116 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles:

E. Susko, J. Leigh, W. F. Doolittle, and E. Bapteste

Visualizing and Assessing Phylogenetic Congruence of Core Gene Sets: A Case Study of the -Proteobacteria
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1019-1030; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Klasson and Siv G. E. Andersson

Strong Asymmetric Mutation Bias in Endosymbiont Genomes Coincide with Loss of Genes for Replication Restart Pathways
MBE Advance Access published on February 13, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1031-1039; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Hideki Innan and Hidemi Watanabe

The Effect of Gene Flow on the Coalescent Time in the Human-Chimpanzee Ancestral Population
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1040-1047; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj109 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah L. Robertson and Aurélien Tartar

Evolution of Glutamine Synthetase in Heterokonts: Evidence for Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer and the Early Evolution of Photosynthesis
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1048-1055; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vaishali Katju and Michael Lynch

On the Formation of Novel Genes by Duplication in the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome
MBE Advance Access published on February 24, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1056-1067; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Seong-Ho Kim and Soojin V. Yi

Correlated Asymmetry of Sequence and Functional Divergence Between Duplicate Proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
MBE Advance Access published on March 1, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1068-1075; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Pleuni S. Pennings and Joachim Hermisson

Soft Sweeps II—Molecular Population Genetics of Adaptation from Recurrent Mutation or Migration
MBE Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1076-1084; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Kei Iida and Mitiko Go

Survey of Conserved Alternative Splicing Events of mRNAs Encoding SR Proteins in Land Plants
MBE Advance Access published on March 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1085-1094; doi:10.1093/molbev/msj118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  [Request Permissions]  

Errata:

An Analysis of Signatures of Selective Sweeps in Natural Populations of the House Mouse
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1095; doi:10.1093/molbev/msk005 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Selectionism and Neutralism in Molecular Evolution
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1095; doi:10.1093/molbev/msk009 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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