Presents experimental and theoretical work aimed at deciphering features of molecular evolution and the processes bearing on these features Examines comparative structural and functional genomics, and other topics Coverage includes the evolution of informational macromolecules and their relation to more complex levels of biological organization, up to populations and taxa 100% of authors who answered a survey reported that they would definitely publish or probably publish in the journal again Journal of Molecular Evolution covers experimental, computational, and theoretical work aimed at deciphering features of molecular evolution and the processes bearing on these features, from the initial formation of macromolecular systems through their evolution at the molecular level, the co-evolution of their functions in cellular and organismal systems, and their influence on organismal adaptation, speciation, and ecology. Topics addressed include the evolution of informational macromolecules and their relation to more complex levels of biological organization, including populations and taxa, as well as the molecular basis for the evolution of ecological interactions of species and the use of molecular data to infer fundamental processes in evolutionary ecology. This coverage accommodates such subfields as new genome sequences, comparative structural and functional genomics, population genetics, the molecular evolution of development, the evolution of gene regulation and gene interaction networks, and in vitro evolution of DNA and RNA, molecular evolutionary ecology, and the development of methods and theory that enable molecular evolutionary inference, including but not limited to, phylogenetic methods.
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Description
Identifiers
ISSN | 0022-2844 |
e-ISSN | 1432-1432 |
DOI | 10.1007/239.1432-1432 |
Publisher
Springer US
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Data set: Springer
Articles
Journal of Molecular Evolution > 2019 > 87 > 9-10 > 298-308
The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) undergoes substantial genomic alterations during embryogenesis in which specific sequences are deleted from the genome of somatic cells yet retained in cells of the germ line. One element that undergoes diminution in P. marinus is Germ1, which consists of a somatically rare (SR) region and a fragment of 28S rDNA. Although the SR-region has been used as a marker...
Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua,
Gabriela Castellanos-Morales,
Leslie M. Paredes-Torres,
Helena S. Hernández-Rosales,
more
Journal of Molecular Evolution > 2019 > 87 > 9-10 > 327-342
Twenty-nine DNA regions of plastid origin have been previously identified in the mitochondrial genome of Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin; Cucurbitaceae). Four of these regions harbor homolog sequences of rbcL, matK, rpl20–rps12 and trnL–trnF, which are widely used as molecular markers for phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies. We extracted the mitochondrial copies of these regions based on the mitochondrial...
Journal of Molecular Evolution > 2019 > 87 > 9-10 > 309-316
In mammals, chicken-type (c-type) lysozymes are part of the innate immune system, killing bacteria by degrading peptidoglycan in their cell walls. Many of the studies on the evolution of c-type lysozymes have focused on its new digestive function, including the duplicated stomach lysozymes in ruminants. Similarly, in bats, gene duplications and subsequent adaptive evolution of c-type lysozyme have...