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Yufeng Wu, Zhengge Zhu, Ligeng Ma, and Mingsheng Chen
The Preferential Retention of Starch Synthesis Genes Reveals the Impact of Whole-Genome Duplication on Grass Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1003-1006; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Jane Charlesworth and Adam Eyre-Walker
The McDonald–Kreitman Test and Slightly Deleterious Mutations
MBE Advance Access published on January 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1007-1015; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Manda Clair Jost, David M. Hillis, Ying Lu, John W. Kyle, Harry A. Fozzard, and Harold H. Zakon
Toxin-Resistant Sodium Channels: Parallel Adaptive Evolution across a Complete Gene Family
MBE Advance Access published on February 6, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1016-1024; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Michael Macpherson, Josefa González, Daniela M. Witten, Jerel C. Davis, Noah A. Rosenberg, Aaron E. Hirsh, and Dmitri A. Petrov
Nonadaptive Explanations for Signatures of Partial Selective Sweeps in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on January 16, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1025-1042; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catalina Hernández-Sánchez, Alicia Mansilla, Flora de Pablo, and Rafael Zardoya
Evolution of the Insulin Receptor Family and Receptor Isoform Expression in Vertebrates
MBE Advance Access published on February 29, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1043-1053; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bryan Kolaczkowski and Joseph W. Thornton
A Mixed Branch Length Model of Heterotachy Improves Phylogenetic Accuracy
MBE Advance Access published on March 3, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1054-1066; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Xianghui Fu, Marcin Adamski, and Eric M. Thompson
Altered miRNA Repertoire in the Simplified Chordate, Oikopleura dioica
MBE Advance Access published on March 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1067-1080; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Artyom Kopp, Olga Barmina, Andrew M. Hamilton, Laura Higgins, Lauren M. McIntyre, and Corbin D. Jones
Evolution of Gene Expression in the Drosophila Olfactory System
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1081-1092; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Sébastien Calvignac, Jean-Michel Terme, Shannon M. Hensley, Pierre Jalinot, Alex D. Greenwood, and Catherine Hänni
Ancient DNA Identification of Early 20th Century Simian T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1093-1098; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Qianghua Xu, Chi-Hing Christina Cheng, Peng Hu, Hua Ye, Zuozhou Chen, Lixue Cao, Lei Chen, Yu Shen, and Liangbiao Chen
Adaptive Evolution of Hepcidin Genes in Antarctic Notothenioid Fishes
MBE Advance Access published on February 29, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1099-1112; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Hitoshi Toyota, Masato Hosokawa, Itaru Urabe, and Tetsuya Yomo
Emergence of Polyproline II-Like Structure at Early Stages of Experimental Evolution from Random Polypeptides
MBE Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1113-1119; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas O'Toole, Mitsuru Hattori, Charles Andres, Kei Iida, Claire Lurin, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber, Mamoru Sugita, and Ian Small
On the Expansion of the Pentatricopeptide Repeat Gene Family in Plants
MBE Advance Access published on March 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1120-1128; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Koushirou Suga, David B. Mark Welch, Yukari Tanaka, Yoshitaka Sakakura, and Atsushi Hagiwara
Two Circular Chromosomes of Unequal Copy Number Make Up the Mitochondrial Genome of the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
MBE Advance Access published on March 7, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1129-1137; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Susanna K. Remold, Andrew Rambaut, and Paul E. Turner
Evolutionary Genomics of Host Adaptation in Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
MBE Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1138-1147; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn059 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenji Ichiyanagi and Norihiro Okada
Mobility Pathways for Vertebrate L1, L2, CR1, and RTE Clade Retrotransposons
MBE Advance Access published on March 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1148-1157; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn061 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne-Lise Ducluzeau, Soufian Ouchane, and Wolfgang Nitschke
The cbb3 Oxidases Are an Ancient Innovation of the Domain Bacteria
MBE Advance Access published on March 18, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1158-1166; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Motomichi Matsuzaki, Haruko Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Kiyoshi Kita, and Hisayoshi Nozaki
A Cryptic Algal Group Unveiled: A Plastid Biosynthesis Pathway in the Oyster Parasite Perkinsus marinus
MBE Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1167-1179; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Reto Burri, Hélène Niculita Hirzel, Nicolas Salamin, Alexandre Roulin, and Luca Fumagalli
Evolutionary Patterns of MHC Class II B in Owls and Their Implications for the Understanding of Avian MHC Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1180-1191; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Scott William Roy and Manuel Irimia
Origins of Human Malaria: Rare Genomic Changes and Full Mitochondrial Genomes Confirm the Relationship of Plasmodium falciparum to Other Mammalian Parasites but Complicate the Origins of Plasmodium vivax
MBE Advance Access published on March 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1192-1198; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn069 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Supriya Munshaw and Thomas B. Kepler
An Information-Theoretic Method for the Treatment of Plural Ancestry in Phylogenetics
MBE Advance Access published on March 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1199-1208; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pedro Soares, Jean Alain Trejaut, Jun-Hun Loo, Catherine Hill, Maru Mormina, Chien-Liang Lee, Yao-Ming Chen, Georgi Hudjashov, Peter Forster, Vincent Macaulay, David Bulbeck, Stephen Oppenheimer, Marie Lin, and Martin B. Richards
Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia
MBE Advance Access published on March 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1209-1218; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Sven B. Gould, Wai-Hong Tham, Alan F. Cowman, Geoffrey I. McFadden, and Ross F. Waller
Alveolins, a New Family of Cortical Proteins that Define the Protist Infrakingdom Alveolata
MBE Advance Access published on March 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1219-1230; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn070 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Kohji Okamura and Kenta Nakai
Retrotransposition as a Source of New Promoters
MBE Advance Access published on March 25, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1231-1238; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn071 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Han Liang, Yeong-Shin Lin, and Wen-Hsiung Li
Fast Evolution of Core Promoters in Primate Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on March 25, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1239-1244; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Deirdre A. Joy, Lilia Gonzalez-Ceron, Jane M. Carlton, Amy Gueye, Michael Fay, Thomas F. McCutchan, and Xin-zhuan Su
Local Adaptation and Vector-Mediated Population Structure in Plasmodium vivax Malaria
MBE Advance Access published on April 2, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1245-1252; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn073 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

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