Molecular Biology and Evolution

Letters

Get checked abstract Humberto Quesada, Sebastián E. Ramos-Onsins, Julio Rozas, and Montserrat Aguadé

Positive Selection Versus Demography: Evolutionary Inferences Based on an Unusual Haplotype Structure in Drosophila simulans
MBE Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1643-1647; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl031 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ryan G. Skophammer, Craig W. Herbold, Maria C. Rivera, Jacqueline A. Servin, and James A. Lake

Evidence that the Root of the Tree of Life Is Not within the Archaea
MBE Advance Access published on June 26, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1648-1651; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl046 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Guy Drouin

Processed Pseudogenes Are More Abundant in Human and Mouse X Chromosomes than in Autosomes
MBE Advance Access published on June 29, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1652-1655; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl048 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles

Get checked abstract Leslie M. Turner and Hopi E. Hoekstra

Adaptive Evolution of Fertilization Proteins within a Genus: Variation in ZP2 and ZP3 in Deer Mice (Peromyscus)
MBE Advance Access published on June 14, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1656-1669; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl035 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Esley M. Heizer, Jr, Douglas W. Raiford, Michael L. Raymer, Travis E. Doom, Robert V. Miller, and Dan E. Krane

Amino Acid Cost and Codon-Usage Biases in 6 Prokaryotic Genomes: A Whole-Genome Analysis
MBE Advance Access published on June 5, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1670-1680; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl029 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rebecca A. Zufall, Casey L. McGrath, Spencer V. Muse, and Laura A. Katz

Genome Architecture Drives Protein Evolution in Ciliates
MBE Advance Access published on June 7, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1681-1687; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl032 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jonathan Filée, Eric Bapteste, Edward Susko, and H. M. Krisch

A Selective Barrier to Horizontal Gene Transfer in the T4-Type Bacteriophages That Has Preserved a Core Genome with the Viral Replication and Structural Genes
MBE Advance Access published on June 16, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1688-1696; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl036 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Neskuts Izagirre, Iker García, Corina Junquera, Concepción de la Rúa, and Santos Alonso

A Scan for Signatures of Positive Selection in Candidate Loci for Skin Pigmentation in Humans
MBE Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1697-1706; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl030 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wilfried Haerty and Rama S. Singh

Gene Regulation Divergence Is a Major Contributor to the Evolution of Dobzhansky–Muller Incompatibilities between Species of Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1707-1714; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl033 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marie Sémon and Laurent Duret

Evolutionary Origin and Maintenance of Coexpressed Gene Clusters in Mammals
MBE Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1715-1723; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl034 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sergio L. Pereira and Allan J. Baker

A Mitogenomic Timescale for Birds Detects Variable Phylogenetic Rates of Molecular Evolution and Refutes the Standard Molecular Clock
MBE Advance Access published on June 14, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1731-1740; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl038 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jesse D. Bloom, D. Allan Drummond, Frances H. Arnold, and Claus O. Wilke

Structural Determinants of the Rate of Protein Evolution in Yeast
MBE Advance Access published on June 16, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1751-1761; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl040 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nicolas Rodrigue, Hervé Philippe, and Nicolas Lartillot

Assessing Site-Interdependent Phylogenetic Models of Sequence Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on June 20, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1762-1775; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl041 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Miika Tapio, Nurbiy Marzanov, Mikhail Ozerov, Mirjana Cinkulov, Galina Gonzarenko, Tatyana Kiselyova, Maciej Murawski, Haldja Viinalass, and Juha Kantanen

Sheep Mitochondrial DNA Variation in European, Caucasian, and Central Asian Areas
MBE Advance Access published on June 16, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1776-1783; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl043 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Katharina T. Huber, Bengt Oxelman, Martin Lott, and Vincent Moulton

Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Polyploids from Multilabeled Trees
MBE Advance Access published on June 23, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1784-1791; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl045 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Martijn Holterman, Andre van der Wurff, Sven van den Elsen, Hanny van Megen, Tom Bongers, Oleksandr Holovachov, Jaap Bakker, and Johannes Helder

Phylum-Wide Analysis of SSU rDNA Reveals Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Nematodes and Accelerated Evolution toward Crown Clades
MBE Advance Access published on June 21, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1792-1800; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl044 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract María Lourdes Sampietro, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Oscar Lao, David Caramelli, Martina Lari, Jaume Bertranpetit, and Carles Lalueza-Fox

Tracking down Human Contamination in Ancient Human Teeth
MBE Advance Access published on June 29, 2006
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1801-1807; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl047 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata

Duplication and Divergence of Two Distinct Pancreatic Ribonuclease Genes in Leaf-Eating African and Asian Colobine Monkeys
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1817; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl057 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Insight into the Diversity and Evolution of the Cryptomonad Nucleomorph Genome
Mol Biol Evol 2006 23: 1817; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl058 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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