Genome Biology and Evolution - 4 (3), 2012

Contents

Research Articles

        Alexandra Popa, Paul Samollow, Christian Gautier, and Dominique Mouchiroud
    The Sex-Specific Impact of Meiotic Recombination on Nucleotide Composition
   
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight: Our Reptilian Brethren: Mammals and Live-Bearing Lizards Show Similar Pregnancy Mechanisms
  
        Matthew C. Brandley, Rebecca L. Young, Dan L. Warren, Michael B. Thompson, and Günter P. Wagner
    Uterine Gene Expression in the Live-Bearing Lizard, Chalcides ocellatus, Reveals Convergence of Squamate Reptile and Mammalian Pregnancy Mechanisms
   
        Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Honglei Chen, Simon Gladman, Sean C. Moore, Torsten Seemann, Ian B. Powell, Alan Hillier, Keith A. Crandall, and P. Scott Chandry
    Population Genomics and Phylogeography of an Australian Dairy Factory Derived Lytic Bacteriophage
 
        Ching-Ping Lin, Chung-Shien Wu, Ya-Yi Huang, and Shu-Miaw Chaw
    The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Ginkgo biloba Reveals the Mechanism of Inverted Repeat Contraction
   
        M. M. Pentony, P. Winters, D. Penfold-Brown, K. Drew, A. Narechania, R. DeSalle, R. Bonneau, and M. D. Purugganan
    The Plant Proteome Folding Project: Structure and Positive Selection in Plant Protein Families
   
        Sonja Grath and John Parsch
    Rate of Amino Acid Substitution Is Influenced by the Degree and Conservation of Male-Biased Transcription Over 50 Myr of Drosophila Evolution
  
        Elizabeth Skippington and Mark A. Ragan
    Evolutionary Dynamics of Small RNAs in 27 Escherichia coli and Shigella Genomes
   
        Anna R. Kersting, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Andrew D. Moore, and Sonja Grath
    Dynamics and Adaptive Benefits of Protein Domain Emergence and Arrangements during Plant Genome Evolution
  
        Kasper U. Kjeldsen, Thomas Bataillon, Nicolás Pinel, Stéphane De Mita, Marie B. Lund, Frank Panitz, Christian Bendixen, David A. Stahl, and Andreas Schramm
    Purifying Selection and Molecular Adaptation in the Genome of Verminephrobacter, the Heritable Symbiotic Bacteria of Earthworms
 
        Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson, Martin Wu, Jeffrey D. Palmer, and Douglas R. Taylor
    Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene
  
        José L. Campos, Brian Charlesworth, and Penelope R. Haddrill
    Molecular Evolution in Nonrecombining Regions of the Drosophila melanogaster Genome
  
        James C. Schnable, Michael Freeling, and Eric Lyons
    Genome-Wide Analysis of Syntenic Gene Deletion in the Grasses
 
        Jana Fulnečková, Tereza Hasíková, Jiří Fajkus, Alena Lukešová, Marek Eliáš, and Eva Sýkorová
    Dynamic Evolution of Telomeric Sequences in the Green Algal Order Chlamydomonadales
  
        Felix Horns, Elsa Petit, Roxana Yockteng, and Michael E. Hood
    Patterns of Repeat-Induced Point Mutation in Transposable Elements of Basidiomycete Fungi
  
        Masafumi Nozawa, Sayaka Miura, and Masatoshi Nei
    Origins and Evolution of MicroRNA Genes in Plant Species
  
        Thomas D. Cuypers and Paulien Hogeweg
    Virtual Genomes in Flux: An Interplay of Neutrality and Adaptability Explains Genome Expansion and Streamlining
  
        Michael F. Seidl, Guido Van den Ackerveken, Francine Govers, and Berend Snel
    Reconstruction of Oomycete Genome Evolution Identifies Differences in Evolutionary Trajectories Leading to Present-Day Large Gene Families
  
Letters

        Matthew A. Campbell, Antonis Rokas, and Jason C. Slot
    Horizontal Transfer and Death of a Fungal Secondary Metabolic Gene Cluster
   
============

Euphytica - 185 (1), 2012

Contents:

Can Mediterranean durum wheat landraces contribute to improved grain quality attributes in modern cultivars?
Ruyman Nazco, Dolors Villegas, Karim Ammar, Roberto Javier Pena, Marc Moragues

Mapping stripe rust resistance gene YrSph derived from Tritium sphaerococcum Perc. with SSR, SRAP, and TRAP markers
Shi-Sheng Chen, Guo-Yue Chen, Hua Chen, Yu-Ming Wei, Wei Li, Ya-Xi Liu

AFLP genetic diversity analysis in Russian wheat aphid resistant wheat accessions
G. Srinivas, Yinghua Huang, Brett F. Carver, Do Mornhinweg Pages 

QTL associated with barley (Hordeum vulgare) feed quality traits measured through in situ digestion
Peter W. Gous, Anke Martin, Wendy Lawson, Alison Kelly, Glen P. Fox

Molecular mapping of partial resistance to powdery mildew in winter wheat cultivar Folke
Morten Lillemo, Asmund Bjornstad, Helge Skinnes 

Elite durum wheat genetic map and recombination rate variation in a multiparental connected design
Laurence Vaissayre, Morgane Ardisson, Christiane Borries, Sylvain Santoni

QTL analysis of main and epistatic effects for flour color traits in durum wheat
Pablo F. Roncallo, Gerardo L. Cervigni, Carlos Jensen, Rubén Miranda

Quantitative trait loci for resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Chinese wheat landrace Huangfangzhu
Tao Li, Guihua Bai, Shuangye Wu, Shiliang Gu 

Selection of genetically diverse sea oats lines with improved performance for coastal restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Sarah E. Bertrand-Garcia, Carrie A. Knott, Niranjan Baisakh

Agronomic effects of a reciprocal translocation in a widely grown Spanish barley variety
A. Farré, A. Visioni, I. Lacasa-Benito, L. Cistué, J. Jansen, I. Romagosa 

Effects of inter-varietal diversity, biotic stresses and environmental productivity on grain yield of spring barley variety mixtures
Lars P. Kiar, Ib M. Skovgaard, Hanne Ostergard 

Combining ability for grain chemistry quality traits in a white oat diallelic cross
Maraisa Crestani, Solange Ferreira da Silveira Silveira