Genome Biology and Evolution - 4 (1), 2012

Contents:

Research Articles

        C. J. Jackson, S. G. Gornik,and R. F. Waller
    The Mitochondrial Genome and Transcriptome of the Basal Dinoflagellate Hematodinium sp.: Character Evolution within the Highly Derived Mitochondrial Genomes of Dinoflagellates
   
        David Roy Smith, Ehsan Kayal, Angel A. Yanagihara, Allen G. Collins, Stacy Pirro, and Patrick J. Keeling
    First Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Box Jellyfish Reveals a Highly Fragmented Linear Architecture and Insights into Telomere Evolution
   
        Apurva Narechania, Richard H. Baker, Ryan Sit, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Rob DeSalle, and Paul J. Planet
    Random Addition Concatenation Analysis: A Novel Approach to the Exploration of Phylogenomic Signal Reveals Strong Agreement between Core and Shell Genomic Partitions in the Cyanobacteria
  
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight: Tiny Bacterial Genome Opens a Huge Mystery: AT Mutational Bias in Hodgkinia
  
        James T. Van Leuven and John P. McCutcheon
    An AT Mutational Bias in the Tiny GC-Rich Endosymbiont Genome of Hodgkinia
 
        Yogeshwar D. Kelkar and Howard Ochman
    Causes and Consequences of Genome Expansion in Fungi
 
        Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, Allen G. Collins, Mohsen Kayal, Stacy Pirro, and Dennis V. Lavrov
    Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians
  
Letters

        Huabin Zhao, Dong Xu, Shuyi Zhang, and Jianzhi Zhang
    Genomic and Genetic Evidence for the Loss of Umami Taste in Bats
   
        Laura E. Williams and Jennifer J. Wernegreen
    Purifying Selection, Sequence Composition, and Context-Specific Indel Mutations Shape Intraspecific Variation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont
   
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