Genome Biology and Evolution - 4 (5), 2012

Contents:

        Timothy Paape, Peng Zhou, Antoine Branca, Roman Briskine, Nevin Young, and Peter Tiffin
    Fine-Scale Population Recombination Rates, Hotspots, and Correlates of Recombination in the Medicago truncatula Genome
   
        Zhuo-Cheng Hou, Kirstin N. Sterner, Roberto Romero, Nandor Gabor Than, Juan M. Gonzalez, Amy Weckle, Jun Xing, Kurt Benirschke, Morris Goodman, and Derek E. Wildman
    Elephant Transcriptome Provides Insights into the Evolution of Eutherian Placentation
   
        Meng-Shin Shiao, Andrew Ying-Fei Chang, Ben-Yang Liao, Yung-Hao Ching, Mei-Yeh Jade Lu, Stella Maris Chen, and Wen-Hsiung Li
    Transcriptomes of Mouse Olfactory Epithelium Reveal Sexual Differences in Odorant Detection
  
        Eryn Blass, Michael Bell, and Stéphane Boissinot
    Accumulation and Rapid Decay of Non-LTR Retrotransposons in the Genome of the Three-Spine Stickleback
   
        Jeffrey P. Mower, Andrea L. Case, Eric R. Floro, and John H. Willis
    Evidence against Equimolarity of Large Repeat Arrangements and a Predominant Master Circle Structure of the Mitochondrial Genome from a Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Lineage with Cryptic CMS
   
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight—Tracking Adaptation's Role: Do Larger Populations Evolve Faster?
  
        Toni I. Gossmann, Peter D. Keightley, and Adam Eyre-Walker
    The Effect of Variation in the Effective Population Size on the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in Eukaryotes
   
        Mahoko Takahashi and Naruya Saitou
    Identification and Characterization of Lineage-Specific Highly Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Mammalian Genomes
   
        Koji Yahara, Mikihiko Kawai, Yoshikazu Furuta, Noriko Takahashi, Naofumi Handa, Takeshi Tsuru, Kenshiro Oshima, Masaru Yoshida, Takeshi Azuma, Masahira Hattori, Ikuo Uchiyama, and Ichizo Kobayashi
    Genome-Wide Survey of Mutual Homologous Recombination in a Highly Sexual Bacterial Species
  
        Danielle Venton
    Highlight: The Chaperone Network—Evolution's Helping Hand
  
        David Bogumil, Giddy Landan, Judith Ilhan, and Tal Dagan
    Chaperones Divide Yeast Proteins into Classes of Expression Level and Evolutionary Rate