Molecular Biology and Evolution

PCR-Induced Sequence Alterations Hamper the Typing of Prehistoric Bone Samples for Diagnostic Achondroplasia Mutations
pp. 2005-2011(7)
Authors: C. M. Pusch; M. Broghammer; G. J. Nicholson; A. G. Nerlich; A. Zink; I. Kennerknecht; L. Bachmann; N. Blin

Disuniting Uniformity: A Pied Cladistic Canvas of mtDNA Haplogroup H in Eurasia
pp. 2012-2021(10)
Authors: Eva-Liis Loogväli; Urmas Roostalu; Boris A. Malyarchuk; Miroslava V. Derenko; Toomas Kivisild; Ene Metspalu; Kristiina Tambets; Maere Reidla; Helle-Viivi Tolk; Jüri Parik; Erwan Pennarun; Sirle Laos; Arina Lunkina; Maria Golubenko; Lovorka Bara; Marijana Perii; Oleg P. Balanovsky; Vladislava Gusar; Elsa K. Khusnutdinova; Vadim Stepanov; Valery Puzyrev; Pavao Rudan; Elena V. Balanovska; Elena Grechanina; Christelle Richard; Jean-Paul Moisan; André Chaventré; Nicholas P. Anagnou; Kalliopi I. Pappa; Emmanuel N. Michalodimitrakis; Mireille Claustres; Mukaddes Gölge; Ilia Mikerezi; Esien Usanga; Richard Villems

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-like Element in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica
pp. 2022-2033(12)
Authors: Jean-Nicolas Volff; Hans Lehrach; Richard Reinhardt; Daniel Chourrout

Long-Term Conservation of Six Duplicated Structural Genes in Cephalopod Mitochondrial Genomes
pp. 2034-2046(13)
Authors: Shin-ichi Yokobori; Naoya Fukuda; Mitsue Nakamura; Tomoko Aoyama; Tairo Oshima

Genetic Evidence for Unequal Effective Population Sizes of Human Females and Males
pp. 2047-2057(11)
Authors: Jason A. Wilder; Zahra Mobasher; Michael F. Hammer

Conservation and Coevolution in the Scale-Free Human Gene Coexpression Network
pp. 2058-2070(13)
Authors: I. King Jordan; Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez; Yuri I. Wolf; Eugene V. Koonin

The Molecular Basis of Adaptive Evolution of Squirrelfish Rhodopsins
pp. 2071-2078(8)
Authors: Shozo Yokoyama; Naomi Takenaka

Rhesus Macaque Class I Duplicon Structures, Organization, and Evolution Within the Alpha Block of the Major Histocompatibility Complex
pp. 2079-2091(13)
Authors: Jerzy K Kulski; Tatsuya Anzai; Takashi Shiina; Hidetoshi Inoko

Microsatellite Variation and Evolutionary History of PCDHX/Y Gene Pair Within the Xq21.3/Yp11.2 Hominid-Specific Homology Block
pp. 2092-2101(10)
Authors: Alexandra M. Lopes; Francesc Calafell; António Amorim

Molecular Claims of Gondwanan Age for Australian Agamid Lizards are Untenable
pp. 2102-2110(9)
Authors: Andrew F. Hugall; Michael S. Y. Lee

Recent Origin of a Hominoid-Specific Splice Form of Neuropsin, a Gene Involved in Learning and Memory
pp. 2111-2115(5)
Authors: Yi Li; Ya-ping Qian; Xiao-jing Yu; Yin-qiu Wang; Ding-gui Dong; Wei Sun; Run-mei Ma; Bing Su

Divergence of Conserved Non-Coding Sequences: Rate Estimates and Relative Rate Tests
pp. 2116-2121(6)
Authors: Günter P. Wagner; Claudia Fried; Sonja J. Prohaska; Peter F. Stadler

Identification of Chaetognaths as Protostomes Is Supported by the Analysis of Their Mitochondrial Genome
pp. 2122-2129(8)
Authors: Daniel Papillon; Yvan Perez; Xavier Caubit; Yannick Le Parco

Molecular Evolution of Sex-Biased Genes in Drosophila
pp. 2130-2139(10)
Authors: Zhi Zhang; Tina M. Hambuch; John Parsch

Predicting Mammalian SINE Subfamily Activity from A-tail Length
pp. 2140-2148(9)
Authors: Guy L. Odom; Jennifer L. Robichaux; Prescott L. Deininger

The Evolutionary Repertoires of the Eukaryotic-Type ABC Transporters in Terms of the Phylogeny of ATP-binding Domains in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes
pp. 2149-2160(12)
Authors: Yoshinobu Igarashi; Kiyoko F. Aoki; Hiroshi Mamitsuka; Kei-ichi Kuma; Minoru Kanehisa

The Serine Repeat Antigen (SERA) Gene Family Phylogeny in Plasmodium: The Impact of GC Content and Reconciliation of Gene and Species Trees
pp. 2161-2171(11)
Authors: Richard Bourgon; Mauro Delorenzi; Tobias Sargeant; Anthony N. Hodder; Brendan S. Crabb; Terence P. Speed

The Evolutionary Fate of Nonfunctional DNA in the Bacterial Endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola
pp. 2172-2181(10)
Authors: Laura Gómez-Valero; Amparo Latorre; Francisco J. Silva