Molecular Biology and Evolution

Two Families of Rep-Like Genes That Probably Originated by Interspecies Recombination Are Represented in Viral, Plasmid, Bacterial, and Parasitic Protozoan Genomes
pp. 1097-1100(4)
Authors: Gibbs, Mark J.; Smeianov, Vladimir V.; Steele, James L.; Upcroft, Peter; Efimov, Boris A.

Adaptive Protein Evolution and Regulatory Divergence in Drosophila
pp. 1101-1103(3)
Authors: Good, Jeffrey M.; Hayden, Celine A.; Wheeler, Travis J.

A Sex-Specific Marker Reveals Male Heterogamety in European Tree Frogs
pp. 1104-1106(3)
Authors: Berset-Brändli, L.; Jaquiéry, J.; Dubey, S.; Perrin, N.

Average Gene Length Is Highly Conserved in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes and Diverges Only Between the Two Kingdoms
pp. 1107-1108(2)
Authors: Xu, Lin; Chen, Hong; Hu, Xiaohua; Zhang, Rongmei; Zhang, Ze; Luo, Z. W.

The GapA/B Gene Duplication Marks the Origin of Streptophyta (Charophytes and Land Plants)
pp. 1109-1118(10)
Authors: Petersen, Jörn; Teich, René; Becker, Burkhard; Cerff, Rüdiger; Brinkmann, Henner

Low Rates of Expression Profile Divergence in Highly Expressed Genes and Tissue-Specific Genes During Mammalian Evolution
pp. 1119-1128(10)
Authors: Liao, Ben-Yang; Zhang, Jianzhi

Horizontal Transfer of a Virulence Operon to the Ancestor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
pp. 1129-1135(7)
Authors: Rosas-Magallanes, Vania; Deschavanne, Patrick; Quintana-Murci, Lluis; Brosch, Roland; Gicquel, Brigitte; Neyrolles, Olivier

Reorganization of Adjacent Gene Relationships in Yeast Genomes by Whole-Genome Duplication and Gene Deletion
pp. 1136-1143(8)
Authors: Byrnes, Jake K.; Morris, Geoffrey P.

Early Penguin Fossils, Plus Mitochondrial Genomes, Calibrate Avian Evolution
pp. 1144-1155(12)
Authors: Slack, Kerryn E.; Jones, Craig M.; Fordyce, R. Ewan; Arnason, Ulfur; Penny, David

Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus (ERIC) Sequences in Escherichia coli: Evolution and Implications for ERIC-PCR
pp. 1156-1168(13)
Authors: Wilson, Lindsay A.; Sharp, Paul M.

Homologs of Mitochondrial Transcription Factor B, Sparsely Distributed Within the Eukaryotic Radiation, Are Likely Derived from the Dimethyladenosine Methyltransferase of the Mitochondrial Endosymbiont
pp. 1169-1179(11)
Authors: Shutt, Timothy E.; Gray, Michael W.

The Rieske Protein: A Case Study on the Pitfalls of Multiple Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Reconstruction
pp. 1180-1191(12)
Authors: Lebrun, Evelyne; Santini, Joanne M.; Brugna, Myriam; Ducluzeau, Anne-Lise; Ouchane, Soufian; Schoepp-Cothenet, Barbara; Baymann, Frauke; Nitschke, Wolfgang

Asymmetric Evolution in Two Fish-Specifically Duplicated Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Paralogons Involved in Teleost Coloration
pp. 1192-1202(11)
Authors: Braasch, Ingo; Salzburger, Walter; Meyer, Axel

Strong Regional Biases in Nucleotide Substitution in the Chicken Genome
pp. 1203-1216(14)
Authors: Webster, Matthew T.; Axelsson, Erik; Ellegren, Hans

A Unique Recent Origin of the Allotetraploid Species Arabidopsis suecica: Evidence from Nuclear DNA Markers
pp. 1217-1231(15)
Authors: Jakobsson, Mattias; Hagenblad, Jenny; Tavaré, Simon; Säll, Torbjörn; Halldén, Christer; Lind-Halldén, Christina; Nordborg, Magnus

Origin and Molecular Evolution of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases with Immunoglobulin-Like Domains
pp. 1232-1241(10)
Authors: Grassot, Julien; Gouy, Manolo; Perrière, Guy; Mouchiroud, Guy

Analysis of the Overdispersed Clock in the Short-Term Evolution of Hepatitis C Virus: Using the E1/E2 Gene Sequences to Infer Infection Dates in a Single Source Outbreak
pp. 1242-1253(12)
Authors: Wróbel, Borys; Torres-Puente, Manuela; Jiménez, Nuria; Bracho, María Alma; García-Robles, Inmaculada; Moya, Andrés; González-Candelas, Fernando

Transposon-Mediated Expansion and Diversification of a Family of ULP-like Genes
pp. 1254-1268(15)
Authors: Hoen, Douglas R.; Park, Kyong Cheul; Yu, Zhihui; Mohabir, Nadia; Cowan, Rebecca K.; Bureau, Thomas E.

Evolution of Paralogous Genes: Reconstruction of Genome Rearrangements Through Comparison of Multiple Genomes Within Staphylococcus aureus
pp. 1269-1285(17)
Authors: Tsuru, Takeshi; Kawai, Mikihiko; Mizutani-Ui, Yoko; Uchiyama, Ikuo; Kobayashi, Ichizo

The Stepwise Evolution of Early Life Driven by Energy Conservation
pp. 1286-1292(7)
Authors: Ferry, James G.; House, Christopher H.

Promoter Analysis of MADS-Box Genes in Eudicots Through Phylogenetic Footprinting
pp. 1293-1303(11)
Authors: De Bodt, Stefanie; Theissen, Guenter; Van de Peer, Yves

Common Phylogenetic Origin of Protamine-like (PL) Proteins and Histone H1: Evidence from Bivalve PL Genes
pp. 1304-1317(14)
Authors: Eirín-López, José M.; Lewis, John D.; Ausió, Juan

CpG + CpNpG Analysis of Protein-Coding Sequences from Tomato
pp. 1318-1323(6)
Authors: Hobolth, Asger; Nielsen, Rasmus; Wang, Ying; Wu, Feinan; Tanksley, Steven D.

The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Chara vulgaris Sheds New Light into the Closest Green Algal Relatives of Land Plants
pp. 1324-1338(15)
Authors: Turmel, Monique; Otis, Christian; Lemieux, Claude