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Research Articles
Kyanne R. Reidenbach, Daniel E. Neafsey, Carlo Costantini, N’Fale Sagnon, Frédéric Simard, Gregory J. Ragland, Scott P. Egan, Jeffrey L. Feder, Marc A. T. Muskavitch, and Nora J. Besansky
Patterns of Genomic Differentiation between Ecologically Differentiated M and S Forms of Anopheles gambiae in West and Central Africa
Onuralp Soylemez and Fyodor A. Kondrashov
Estimating the Rate of Irreversibility in Protein Evolution
David Williams, J. Peter Gogarten, and R. Thane Papke
Quantifying Homologous Replacement of Loci between Haloarchaeal Species
Yu-Ping Poh, Chau-Ti Ting, Hua-Wen Fu, Charles H. Langley, and David J. Begun
Population Genomic Analysis of Base Composition Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
Jarrett D. Morrow and Vaughn S. Cooper
Evolutionary Effects of Translocations in Bacterial Genomes
David Alvarez-Ponce and Mario A. Fares
Evolutionary Rate and Duplicability in the Arabidopsis thaliana Protein–Protein Interaction Network
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Adam D. Kennedy, Craig Martens, Stephen F. Porcella, Frank R. DeLeo, and Franklin D. Lowy
Toward an Understanding of the Evolution of Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 during Colonization in Community Households
Sabrina Simon, Apurva Narechania, Rob DeSalle, and Heike Hadrys
Insect Phylogenomics: Exploring the Source of Incongruence Using New Transcriptomic Data
José R. López Arriaza, and Rachel Lockridge Mueller
Slow DNA Loss in the Gigantic Genomes of Salamanders
Danielle Venton
Highlight—Making It Big: Salamanders Keep DNA Near and Dear
Christopher Grosche, Helena T. Funk, Uwe G. Maier, and Stefan Zauner
The Chloroplast Genome of Pellia endiviifolia: Gene Content, RNA-Editing Pattern, and the Origin of Chloroplast Editing
Aitor Gonzaga, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Mario López-Pérez, Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Inmaculada García-Heredia, Nikole E. Kimes, Purificación Lopez-García, David Moreira, David Ussery, Mila Zaballos, Rohit Ghai, and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Polyclonality of Concurrent Natural Populations of Alteromonas macleodii
Olga K. Kamneva, Stormy J. Knight, David A. Liberles, and Naomi L. Ward
Analysis of Genome Content Evolution in PVC Bacterial Super-Phylum: Assessment of Candidate Genes Associated with Cellular Organization and Lifestyle
Julia F. Hopkins, David F. Spencer, Sylvie Laboissiere, Jonathan A.D. Neilson, Robert J.M. Eveleigh, Dion G. Durnford, Michael W. Gray, and John M. Archibald
Proteomics Reveals Plastid- and Periplastid-Targeted Proteins in the Chlorarachniophyte Alga Bigelowiella natans
Letter
Yuri I. Wolf and Eugene V. Koonin
A Tight Link between Orthologs and Bidirectional Best Hits in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes
Thomas Schott, Pradeep Kumar Kondadi, Marja-Liisa Hänninen, and Mirko Rossi
Microevolution of a Zoonotic Helicobacter Population Colonizing the Stomach of a Human Host before and after Failed Treatment
Ibrar Ahmed, Patrick J. Biggs, Peter J. Matthews, Lesley J. Collins, Michael D. Hendy, and Peter J. Lockhart
Mutational Dynamics of Aroid Chloroplast Genomes
Patrícia Isabel Marques, Rui Bernardino, Teresa Fernandes, Eric D. Green, Belen Hurle, Victor Quesada, Susana Seixas and NISC Comparative Sequencing Program
Birth-and-Death of KLK3 and KLK2 in Primates: Evolution Driven by Reproductive Biology
Niyaz Yoosuf, Natalya Yutin, Philippe Colson, Svetlana A. Shabalina, Isabelle Pagnier, Catherine Robert, Said Azza, Thomas Klose, Jimson Wong, Michael G. Rossmann, Bernard La Scola, Didier Raoult, and Eugene V. Koonin
Related Giant Viruses in Distant Locations and Different Habitats: Acanthamoeba polyphaga moumouvirus Represents a Third Lineage of the Mimiviridae That Is Close to the Megavirus Lineage
Erratum
Danielle Venton
Highlight—Lowly Sea Cucumber Leads the Evolutionary Race
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