Molecular Biology and Evolution

Smoke Without Fire: Most Reported Cases of Intron Gain in Nematodes Instead Reflect Intron Losses
pp. 2259-2262(4)
Authors: Roy, Scott William; Penny, David

Tracking Ancient Polyploids: A Retroposon Insertion Reveals an Extinct Diploid Ancestor in the Polyploid Origin of Belladonna
pp. 2263-2267(5)
Authors: Yuan, Yao-wu; Zhang, Zhi-yun; Chen, Zhi-duan; Olmstead, Richard G.

Difference between Evolutionarily Effective and Germ line Mutation Rate Due to Stochastically Varying Haplogroup Size
pp. 2268-2270(3)
Authors: Zhivotovsky, Lev A.; Underhill, Peter A.; Feldman, Marcus W.

Can Deleterious Mutations Explain the Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates?
pp. 2271-2273(3)
Author: Woodhams, Michael

The Influence of Phylogenetic Uncertainty on the Detection of Positive Darwinian Selection
pp. 2274-2278(5)
Author: Pie, Marcio R.

On the Varied Pattern of Evolution of 2 Fungal Genomes: A Critique of Hughes and Friedman
pp. 2279-2282(4)
Author: Yang, Ziheng

Higher Intensity of Purifying Selection on >90% of the Human Genes Revealed by the Intrinsic Replacement Mutation Rates
pp. 2283-2287(5)
Authors: Subramanian, Sankar; Kumar, Sudhir

Insights into Early Extracellular Matrix Evolution: Spongin Short Chain Collagen-Related Proteins Are Homologous to Basement Membrane Type IV Collagens and Form a Novel Family Widely Distributed in Invertebrates
pp. 2288-2302(15)
Authors: Aouacheria, Abdel; Geourjon, Christophe; Aghajari, Nushin; Navratil, Vincent; Deléage, Gilbert; Lethias, Claire; Exposito, Jean-Yves

The Evolution of Biased Codon and Amino Acid Usage in Nematode Genomes
pp. 2303-2315(13)
Authors: Cutter, Asher D.; Wasmuth, James D.; Blaxter, Mark L.

Interplay of Selective Pressure and Stochastic Events Directs Evolution of the MEL172 Satellite DNA Library in Root-Knot Nematodes
pp. 2316-2325(10)
Authors: Meštrović, Nevenka; Castagnone-Sereno, Philippe; Plohl, Miroslav

The Unusual Adaptive Expansion of Pancreatic Ribonuclease Gene in Carnivora
pp. 2326-2335(10)
Authors: Yu, Li; Zhang, Ya-ping

Avian Influenza Virus Exhibits Rapid Evolutionary Dynamics
pp. 2336-2341(6)
Authors: Chen, Rubing; Holmes, Edward C.

Diversifying Selection Drives the Evolution of the Type III Secretion System Pilus of Pseudomonas syringae
pp. 2342-2354(13)
Authors: Guttman, David S.; Gropp, Susan J.; Morgan, Robyn L.; Wang, Pauline W.

Robustness of Coalescent Estimators to Between-Lineage Mutation Rate Variation
pp. 2355-2360(6)
Author: Kuhner, Mary K.

Evolution of the Terminal Regions of the Streptomyces Linear Chromosome
pp. 2361-2369(9)
Authors: Choulet, Frédéric; Aigle, Bertrand; Gallois, Alexandre; Mangenot, Sophie; Gerbaud, Claude; Truong, Chantal; Francou, François-Xavier; Fourrier, Céline; Guérineau, Michel; Decaris, Bernard; Barbe, Valérie; Pernodet, Jean-Luc; Leblond, Pierre

The Transcriptomics of Ecological Convergence between 2 Limnetic Coregonine Fishes (Salmonidae)
pp. 2370-2378(9)
Authors: Derome, N; Bernatchez, L

Gene Gain and Gene Loss in Streptococcus: Is It Driven by Habitat?
pp. 2379-2391(13)
Authors: Marri, Pradeep Reddy; Hao, Weilong

Intron Size, Abundance, and Distribution within Untranslated Regions of Genes
pp. 2392-2404(13)
Authors: Hong, Xin; Scofield, Douglas G.; Lynch, Michael

Evidence for Transit Peptide Acquisition through Duplication and Subsequent Frameshift Mutation of a Preexisting Protein Gene in Rice
pp. 2405-2412(8)
Authors: Ueda, Minoru; Fujimoto, Masaru; Arimura, Shin-ichi; Tsutsumi, Nobuhiro; Kadowaki, Koh-ichi

Nucleus-to-Nucleus Gene Transfer and Protein Retargeting into a Remnant Cytoplasm of Cryptophytes and Diatoms
pp. 2413-2422(10)
Authors: Gould, Sven B.; Sommer, Maik S.; Kroth, Peter G.; Gile, Gillian H.; Keeling, Patrick J.; Maier, Uwe-G.

The Parkinson Disease Gene LRRK2: Evolutionary and Structural Insights
pp. 2423-2433(11)
Authors: Marín, Ignacio

CYP6B1 and CYP6B3 of the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes): Adaptive Evolution through Subfunctionalization
pp. 2434-2443(10)
Authors: Wen, Zhimou; Rupasinghe, Sanjeewa; Niu, Guodong; Berenbaum, May R.; Schuler, Mary A.

Global Phylogeny Determined by the Combination of Protein Domains in Proteomes
pp. 2444-2454(11)
Authors: Wang, Minglei; Caetano-Anollés, Gustavo

Evolutionary Relationships of Apusomonads Inferred from Taxon-Rich Analyses of 6 Nuclear Encoded Genes
pp. 2455-2466(12)
Authors: Kim, Eunsoo; Simpson, Alastair G. B.; Graham, Linda E.

Preferential Duplication in the Sparse Part of Yeast Protein Interaction Network
pp. 2467-2473(7)
Authors: Li, Li; Huang, Yingwu; Xia, Xuefeng; Sun, Zhirong

Large Global Effective Population Sizes in Paramecium
pp. 2474-2479(6)
Authors: Snoke, Margaret S.; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Barth, Dana; Lynch, Michael

Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians
pp. 2480-2491(12)
Authors: Hill, Catherine; Soares, Pedro; Mormina, Maru; Macaulay, Vincent; Meehan, William; Blackburn, James; Clarke, Douglas; Raja, Joseph Maripa; Ismail, Patimah; Bulbeck, David; Oppenheimer, Stephen; Richards, Martin

The Shoot Stem Cell Niche in Angiosperms: Expression Patterns of WUS Orthologues in Rice and Maize Imply Major Modifications in the Course of Mono- and Dicot Evolution
pp. 2492-2504(13)
Authors: Nardmann, Judith; Werr, Wolfgang

Transcription and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Centromeric Satellite Repeat CentO in Rice
pp. 2505-2520(16)
Authors: Lee, Hye-Ran; Neumann, Pavel; Jiang, Jiming

Treasurer's Report for Financial Year 2005
pp. 2521-2521(1)
Author: Wayne, Marta L.

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2006, Tempe, Arizona
pp. 2522-2524(3)

Editor's Report for 2006
pp. 2525-2527(3)
Author: Martin, William

MBE Reviewers Volume 23
pp. 2528-2532(5)