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Manuel Irimia, Ignacio Maeso, and Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Convergent Evolution of Clustering of Iroquois Homeobox Genes across Metazoans
MBE Advance Access published on May 9, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1521-1525; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn109 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Marek Elias
The Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Sec2 and PRONE: Candidate Synapomorphies for the Opisthokonta and the Archaeplastida
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1526-1529; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Yiwen Chen and Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Natural Selection against Protein Aggregation on Self-Interacting and Essential Proteins in Yeast, Fly, and Worm
MBE Advance Access published on May 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1530-1533; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn122 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Articles Back

Clévio Nóbrega, Mahnaz Khadem, Montserrat Aguadé, and Carmen Segarra
Genetic Exchange versus Genetic Differentiation in a Medium-Sized Inversion of Drosophila: The A2/Ast Arrangements of Drosophila subobscura
MBE Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1534-1543; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn100 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Verónica Martín and Esteban Domingo
Influence of the Mutant Spectrum in Viral Evolution: Focused Selection of Antigenic Variants in a Reconstructed Viral Quasispecies
MBE Advance Access published on April 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1544-1554; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang
Coexpression of Linked Genes in Mammalian Genomes Is Generally Disadvantageous
MBE Advance Access published on April 24, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1555-1565; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Minoru Ueda, Tomotaro Nishikawa, Masaru Fujimoto, Hideki Takanashi, Shin-ichi Arimura, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, and Koh-ichi Kadowaki
Substitution of the Gene for Chloroplast RPS16 Was Assisted by Generation of a Dual Targeting Signal
MBE Advance Access published on May 2, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1566-1575; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Barry G. Hall
How Well Does the HoT Score Reflect Sequence Alignment Accuracy?
MBE Advance Access published on May 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1576-1580; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Zengyan Xie, Xia Li, Beverley J. Glover, Shunong Bai, Guang-Yuan Rao, Jingchu Luo, and Ji Yang
Duplication and Functional Diversification of HAP3 Genes Leading to the Origin of the Seed-Developmental Regulatory Gene, LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1), in Nonseed Plant Genomes
MBE Advance Access published on May 2, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1581-1592; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Wendy E. Grus and Jianzhi Zhang
Distinct Evolutionary Patterns between Chemoreceptors of 2 Vertebrate Olfactory Systems and the Differential Tuning Hypothesis
MBE Advance Access published on May 5, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1593-1601; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Navin Elango and Soojin V. Yi
DNA Methylation and Structural and Functional Bimodality of Vertebrate Promoters
MBE Advance Access published on May 9, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1602-1608; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

William Ferguson, Shira Dvora, Juliana Gallo, Annie Orth, and Stéphane Boissinot
Long-Term Balancing Selection at the West Nile Virus Resistance Gene, Oas1b, Maintains Transspecific Polymorphisms in the House Mouse
MBE Advance Access published on May 5, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1609-1618; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natalya Yutin, Kira S. Makarova, Sergey L. Mekhedov, Yuri I. Wolf, and Eugene V. Koonin
The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes
MBE Advance Access published on May 6, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1619-1630; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn108 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Trevor Bedford and Daniel L. Hartl
Overdispersion of the Molecular Clock: Temporal Variation of Gene-Specific Substitution Rates in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1631-1638; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

John F. Baines, Stanley A. Sawyer, Daniel L. Hartl, and John Parsch
Effects of X-Linkage and Sex-Biased Gene Expression on the Rate of Adaptive Protein Evolution in Drosophila
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1639-1650; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

B. Malyarchuk, T. Grzybowski, M. Derenko, M. Perkova, T. Vanecek, J. Lazur, P. Gomolcak, and I. Tsybovsky
Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny in Eastern and Western Slavs
MBE Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1651-1658; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Bas E. Dutilh, Berend Snel, Thijs J. G. Ettema, and Martijn A. Huynen
Signature Genes as a Phylogenomic Tool
MBE Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1659-1667; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn115 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Ivan Ovcharenko
Widespread Ultraconservation Divergence in Primates
MBE Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1668-1676; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn116 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

James A. Lake
Reconstructing Evolutionary Graphs: 3D Parsimony
MBE Advance Access published on May 19, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1677-1682; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon Whelan
Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Nucleotide Sequence Evolution
MBE Advance Access published on May 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1683-1694; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn119 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guntram Christiansen, Carole Molitor, Benjamin Philmus, and Rainer Kurmayer
Nontoxic Strains of Cyanobacteria Are the Result of Major Gene Deletion Events Induced by a Transposable Element
MBE Advance Access published on May 22, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1695-1704; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn120 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

José María Eirín-López, Lindsay J. Frehlick, Manel Chiva, Núria Saperas, and Juan Ausió
The Sperm Proteins from Amphioxus Mirror Its Basal Position among Chordates and Redefine the Origin of Vertebrate Protamines
MBE Advance Access published on May 23, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1705-1713; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

G. A. Babbitt and Y. Kim
Inferring Natural Selection on Fine-Scale Chromatin Organization in Yeast
MBE Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1714-1727; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John E. Pool and Rasmus Nielsen
The Impact of Founder Events on Chromosomal Variability in Multiply Mating Species
MBE Advance Access published on May 28, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1728-1736; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Yongzhong Zhao and Richard J. Epstein
Programmed Genetic Instability: A Tumor-Permissive Mechanism for Maintaining the Evolvability of Higher Species through Methylation-Dependent Mutation of DNA Repair Genes in the Male Germ Line
MBE Advance Access published on June 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1737-1749; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn126 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Ryosuke Kimura, Jun Ohashi, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Minato Nakazawa, Tsukasa Inaoka, Ryutaro Ohtsuka, Motoki Osawa, and Katsushi Tokunaga
Gene Flow and Natural Selection in Oceanic Human Populations Inferred from Genome-Wide SNP Typing
MBE Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1750-1761; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta, Yangrae Cho, Jeffrey P. Mower, Andrew J. Alverson, and Jeffrey D. Palmer
Frequent, Phylogenetically Local Horizontal Transfer of the cox1 Group I Intron in Flowering Plant Mitochondria
MBE Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1762-1777; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn129 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer L. Knies, Kristen K. Dang, Todd J. Vision, Noah G. Hoffman, Ronald Swanstrom, and Christina L. Burch
Compensatory Evolution in RNA Secondary Structures Increases Substitution Rate Variation among Sites
MBE Advance Access published on June 4, 2008
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1778-1787; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn130 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata Back

Yong-Hwee Loh, Sydney Brenner, and Byrappa Venkatesh
Investigation of Loss and Gain of Introns in the Compact Genomes of Pufferfishes (fugu and Tetraodon)
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1788; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn118 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T. Robinson and L. A. Katz
Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Paralogs of 2 Cytoskeletal Genes in the Ciliate Chilodonella uncinata
Mol Biol Evol 2008 25: 1789; doi:10.1093/molbev/msn144 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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