Molecular Biology and Evolution

Evolutionary Pressures on Apicoplast Transit Peptides
pp. 2183-2194(12)
Authors: Ralph, Stuart A.; Foth, Bernardo J.; Hall, Neil; McFadden, Geoffrey I.

The Control of Copy Number of IS6110 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
pp. 2195-2201(7)
Authors: Tanaka, Mark M.; Rosenberg, Noah A.; Small, Peter M.

Nonneutral Evolution of the Transcribed Pseudogene Makorin1-p1 in Mice
pp. 2202-2209(8)
Authors: Podlaha, Ondrej; Zhang, Jianzhi

Evolution of Vertebrate Genes Related to Prion and Shadoo Proteins—Clues from Comparative Genomic Analysis
pp. 2210-2231(22)
Authors: Premzl, Marko; Gready, Jill E.; Jermiin, Lars S.; Simonic, Tatjana; Marshall Graves, Jennifer A.

The Evolutionary Implications of knox-I Gene Duplications in Conifers: Correlated Evidence from Phylogeny, Gene Mapping, and Analysis of Functional Divergence
pp. 2232-2245(14)
Authors: Guillet-Claude, Carine; Isabel, Nathalie; Pelgas, Betty; Bousquet, Jean

Decreases in Activation Energy and Substrate Affinity in Cold-Adapted A₄-Lactate Dehydrogenase: Evidence from the Antarctic Notothenioid Fish Chaenocephalus aceratus
pp. 2246-2255(10)
Authors: Fields, Peter A.; Houseman, Daniel E.

Duplication and Diversifying Selection Among Termite Antifungal Peptides
pp. 2256-2264(9)
Authors: Bulmer, Mark S.; Crozier, Ross H.

Different Matrilineal Contributions to Genetic Structure of Ethnic Groups in the Silk Road Region in China
pp. 2265-2280(16)
Authors: Yao, Yong-Gang; Kong, Qing-Peng; Zhu, Chun-Ling; Zhang, Ya-Ping

Selective Expansion of the Newly Evolved Genomic Variants of Retrotransposon 1731 in the Drosophila Genomes
pp. 2281-2289(9)
Authors: Kalmykova, A. I.; Kwon, D. A.; Rozovsky, Ya. M.; Hueber, N.; Capy, P.; Maisonhaute, C.; Gvozdev, V. A.

Comparison of Three Methods for Estimating Rates of Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Nucleotide Substitutions
pp. 2290-2298(9)
Authors: Tzeng, Yun-Huei; Pan, Runsun; Li, Wen-Hsiung

Phylogenetic Assessment of Introns and SINEs Within the Y Chromosome Using the Cat Family Felidae As a Species Tree
pp. 2299-2309(11)
Authors: Pecon-Slattery, J.; Pearks Wilkerson, A. J.; Murphy, W. J.; O'Brien, S. J.

Different Regulatory Mechanisms Underlie Similar Transposable Element Profiles in Pufferfish and Fruitflies
pp. 2310-2318(9)
Authors: Neafsey, Daniel E.; Blumenstiel, Justin P.; Hartl, Daniel L.

A Broad Survey of Recombination in Animal Mitochondria
pp. 2319-2325(7)
Authors: Piganeau, Gwenaël; Gardner, Michael; Eyre-Walker, Adam

Adaptive Evolution Drives the Diversification of Zinc-Finger Binding Domains
pp. 2326-2339(14)
Authors: Schmidt, Deena; Durrett, Rick

Evolution of the RNA Polymerase B Subunit Gene (rpoB) in Halobacteriales: a Complementary Molecular Marker to the SSU rRNA Gene
pp. 2340-2351(12)
Authors: Walsh, David A.; Bapteste, Eric; Kamekura, Masahiro; Doolittle, W. Ford

Three-Dimensional Window Analysis for Detecting Positive Selection at Structural Regions of Proteins
pp. 2352-2359(8)
Author: Suzuki, Yoshiyuki

Editor's Report for 2003 and January to June, 2004
pp. 2360-2363(4)
Author: Martin, William

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2004 State College, Pennsylvania, USA
pp. 2364-2365(2)

Treasurer's Report for January 1, 2003–December 31, 2004 prepared by Marta L. Wayne, Treasurer
pp. 2366-2366(1)

MBE Reviewers
pp. 2367-2373(7)

Origins, Lineage-Specific Expansions, and Multiple Losses of Tyrosine Kinases in Eukaryotes
pp. 2374-2375(2)
Authors: Shiu, Shin-Han; Li, Wen-Hsiung