Molecular Biology and Evolution - 27 (8), 2010

SPIS TREŚCI:
(Volume 27, Issue 8, August 2010)

LETTERS

The Demographic Histories of the M and S Molecular Forms of Anopheles gambiae s.s.
Jacob E. Crawford and Brian P. Lazzaro

Distinct Patterns of Expression and Evolution of Intronless and Intron-Containing Mammalian Genes
Svetlana A. Shabalina, Aleksey Y. Ogurtsov, Alexey N. Spiridonov, Pavel S. Novichkov, Nikolay A. Spiridonov, Eugene V. Koonin

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Gene Family Size Conservation Is a Good Indicator of Evolutionary Rates
Feng-Chi Chen, Chiuan-Jung Chen, Wen-Hsiung Li, and Trees-Juen Chuang

An Alignment Confidence Score Capturing Robustness to Guide Tree Uncertainty
Osnat Penn, Eyal Privman, Giddy Landan, Dan Graur, and Tal Pupko

Bayesian Estimation of Divergence Times from Large Sequence Alignments
Stéphane Guindon

Structural Considerations in the Fitness Landscape of a Virus
Teruaki Watabe and Hirohisa Kishino

Rooting the Ribosomal Tree of Life
Gregory P. Fournier and J. Peter Gogarten

Birth-and-Death Long-Term Evolution Promotes Histone H2B Variant Diversification in the Male Germinal Cell Line
Rodrigo González-Romero, Ciro Rivera-Casas, Juan Ausió, Josefina Méndez, and José M. Eirín-López

Genome-Wide Evidence for Efficient Positive and Purifying Selection in Capsella grandiflora, a Plant Species with a Large Effective Population Size
Tanja Slotte, John Paul Foxe, Khaled Michel Hazzouri, and Stephen I. Wright

Genome Wide Analyses Reveal Little Evidence for Adaptive Evolution in many Plant Species
Adam Eyre-Walker, Toni I. Gossmann, Bao-Hua Song, Aaron J. Windsor, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Christopher J. Dixon, Maxim V. Kapralov, Dmitry A. Filatov

Major East – West Division Underlies Y Chromosome Stratification across Indonesia
Tatiana M. Karafet, Brian Hallmark, Murray P. Cox, Herawati Sudoyo, Sean Downey, J. Stephen Lansing, Michael F. Hammer

Copy Number Changes of CNV Regions in Intersubspecific Crosses of the House Mouse
Rick J. Scavetta, Diethard Tautz

Parallelism in Evolution of Highly Repetitive DNAs in Sibling Species
Brankica Mravinac and Miroslav Plohl

Base Pairing Constraints Drive Structural Epistasis in Ribosomal RNA Sequences
Julien Y. Dutheil, Fabrice Jossinet, and Eric Westhof

Phylogeography Takes a Relaxed Random Walk in Continuous Space and Time
Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut, John J. Welch, and Marc A. Suchard

A Newly Classified Vertebrate Calpain Protease, Directly Ancestral to CAPN1 and 2, Episodically Evolved a Restricted Physiological Function in Placental Mammals
Daniel J. Macqueen, Margaret L. Delbridge, Sujatha Manthri, and Ian A. Johnston

GIN Transposons: Genetic Elements Linking Retrotransposons and Genes
Ignacio Marín

Detecting Positive and Purifying Selection at Synonymous Sites in Yeast and Worm
Tong Zhou, Wanjun Gu, Claus O. Wilke

Accelerated Evolution of PAK3 - and PIM1 -like Kinase Gene Families in the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata
Lesheng Kong, Peter V. Lovell, Andreas Heger, Claudio V. Mello, and Chris P. Ponting

Gene Network Visualization and Quantitative Synteny Analysis of more than 300 Marine T4-Like Phage Scaffolds from the GOS Metagenome
André M. Comeau, Christine Arbiol, and H.M. Krisch

Polymorphisms in the CPB2 Gene Are Maintained by Balancing Selection and Result in Haplotype-Preferential Splicing of Exon 7
Rachele Cagliani, Matteo Fumagalli, Stefania Riva, Uberto Pozzoli, Marco Fracassetti, Nereo Bresolin, Giacomo P. Comi, Manuela Sironi

Transposable Elements: Insertion Pattern and Impact on Gene Expression Evolution in Hominids
Maria Warnefors, Vini Pereira, Adam Eyre-Walker

Adaptive Evolution of Genes Duplicated from the Drosophila pseudoobscura neo-X Chromosome
Richard P. Meisel, Benedict B. Hilldorfer, Jessica L. Koch, Steven Lockton, Stephen W. Schaeffer



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