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Koji Fujimura, Yohey Terai, Naoya Ishiguro, Masaki Miya, Mutsumi Nishida, and Norihiro Okada
Heterotypy in the N-Terminal Region of Growth/Differentiation Factor 5 (GDF5) Mature Protein during Teleost Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 797-800; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Max Reuter, Jan Engelstädter, Pierre Fontanillas, and Laurence D. Hurst
A Test of the Null Model for 5' UTR Evolution Based on GC Content
MBE Advance Access published on February 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 801-804; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn044 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Miguel M. Fonseca, David Posada, and D. James Harris
Inverted Replication of Vertebrate Mitochondria
MBE Advance Access published on February 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 805-808; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Hanna M. Fischer, Christopher W. Wheat, David G. Heckel, and Heiko Vogel
Evolutionary Origins of a Novel Host Plant Detoxification Gene in Butterflies
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 809-820; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn014 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Veiko Krauss, Christian Thümmler, Franziska Georgi, Jörg Lehmann, Peter F. Stadler, and Carina Eisenhardt
Near Intron Positions Are Reliable Phylogenetic Markers: An Application to Holometabolous Insects
MBE Advance Access published on February 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 821-830; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Leopold Eckhart, Claudia Ballaun, Marcela Hermann, John L. VandeBerg, Wolfgang Sipos, Aumaid Uthman, Heinz Fischer, and Erwin Tschachler
Identification of Novel Mammalian Caspases Reveals an Important Role of Gene Loss in Shaping the Human Caspase Repertoire
MBE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 831-841; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material] [Request Permissions]  

Samuel Blanquart and Nicolas Lartillot
A Site- and Time-Heterogeneous Model of Amino Acid Replacement
MBE Advance Access published on January 29, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 842-858; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Cyrille Conord, Laurence Despres, Agnès Vallier, Séverine Balmand, Christian Miquel, Stéphanie Zundel, Guy Lemperiere, and Abdelaziz Heddi
Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family
MBE Advance Access published on February 29, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 859-868; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Avner Bar-Hen, Mahendra Mariadassou, Marie-Anne Poursat, and Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
Influence Function for Robust Phylogenetic Reconstructions
MBE Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 869-873; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Atsushi Kurabayashi, Masayuki Sumida, Hiromichi Yonekawa, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, and Masami Hasegawa
Phylogeny, Recombination, and Mechanisms of Stepwise Mitochondrial Genome Reorganization in Mantellid Frogs from Madagascar
MBE Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 874-891; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Norman Warthmann, Sandip Das, Christa Lanz, and Detlef Weigel
Comparative Analysis of the MIR319a MicroRNA Locus in Arabidopsis and Related Brassicaceae
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 892-902; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn029 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Miklós Csurös, Igor B. Rogozin, and Eugene V. Koonin
Extremely Intron-Rich Genes in the Alveolate Ancestors Inferred with a Flexible Maximum-Likelihood Approach
MBE Advance Access published on February 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 903-911; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn039 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Sophie Pantalacci, Arnaud Chaumot, Gérard Benoît, Alexa Sadier, Frédéric Delsuc, Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, and Vincent Laudet
Conserved Features and Evolutionary Shifts of the EDA Signaling Pathway Involved in Vertebrate Skin Appendage Development
MBE Advance Access published on February 27, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 912-928; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jian Lu, Yonggui Fu, Supriya Kumar, Yang Shen, Kai Zeng, Anlong Xu, Richard Carthew, and Chung-I Wu
Adaptive Evolution of Newly Emerged Micro-RNA Genes in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 929-938; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Evgeny A. Glazov, Sean McWilliam, Wesley C. Barris, and Brian P. Dalrymple
Origin, Evolution, and Biological Role of miRNA Cluster in DLK-DIO3 Genomic Region in Placental Mammals
MBE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 939-948; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Susan E. Masta and Jeffrey L. Boore
Parallel Evolution of Truncated Transfer RNA Genes in Arachnid Mitochondrial Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on February 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 949-959; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Tae-Kun Seo
Calculating Bootstrap Probabilities of Phylogeny Using Multilocus Sequence Data
MBE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 960-971; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn043 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlo G. Artieri, Wilfried Haerty, Bhagwati P. Gupta, and Rama S. Singh
Sexual Selection and Maintenance of Sex: Evidence from Comparisons of Rates of Genomic Accumulation of Mutations and Divergence of Sex-Related Genes in Sexual and Hermaphroditic Species of Caenorhabditis
MBE Advance Access published on February 14, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 972-979; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn046 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Claire Larroux, Graham N. Luke, Peter Koopman, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Sebastian M. Shimeld, and Bernard M. Degnan
Genesis and Expansion of Metazoan Transcription Factor Gene Classes
MBE Advance Access published on February 21, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 980-996; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn047 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Santos Alonso, Saioa López, Neskuts Izagirre, and Concepción de la Rúa
Overdominance in the Human Genome and Olfactory Receptor Activity
MBE Advance Access published on February 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 997-1001; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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