Volume 19, Issue 5 | May 2009

Preface
- - On the origin of Darwinism
    Hillary E. Sussman
    First Published May 1, 2009
Commentary
- - One hundred fifty years without Darwin are enough!
    Francisco J. Ayala
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - ‘Why genomes in pieces?’ revisited: Sucking lice do their own thing in mtDNA circle game
    David M. Rand
    First Published May 1, 2009
Perspective
- - Non-Darwinian estimation: My ancestors, my genes' ancestors
    Kenneth M. Weiss
    Jeffrey C. Long
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Constructing genomic maps of positive selection in humans: Where do we go from here?
    Joshua M. Akey
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in mice, flies, and humans
    Jonathan Flint
    Trudy F.C. Mackay
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Evolution under canalization and the dual roles of microRNAs—A hypothesis
    Chung-I Wu
    Yang Shen
    Tian Tang
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - On the origin of prokaryotic species
    W. Ford Doolittle
    Olga Zhaxybayeva
    First Published May 1, 2009
Article
- - Meiotic recombination generates rich diversity in NK cell receptor genes, alleles, and haplotypes
    Paul J. Norman
    Laurent Abi-Rached
    Ketevan Gendzekhadze
    John A. Hammond
    Achim K. Moesta
    Deepti Sharma Thorsten Graef Karina L. McQueen Lisbeth A. Guethlein Christine V.F. Carrington Dasdayanee Chandanayingyong Yih-Hsin Chang Catalina Crespí Güher Saruhan-Direskeneli Kamran Hameed Giorgi Kamkamidze Kwadwo A. Koram Zulay Layrisse Nuria Matamoros Joan Milà Myoung Hee Park Ramasamy M. Pitchappan D. Dan Ramdath Ming-Yuh Shiau Henry A.F. Stephens Siske Struik Dolly Tyan David H. Verity Robert W. Vaughan Ronald W. Davis
    ...[+25 authors]...,
    Patricia A. Fraser
    Eleanor M. Riley
    Mostafa Ronaghi
    Peter Parham
    First Published May 1, 2009
Letter
- - Breakpoint regions and homologous synteny blocks in chromosomes have different evolutionary histories
    Denis M. Larkin
    Greg Pape
    Ravikiran Donthu
    Loretta Auvil
    Michael Welge
    First Published April 2, 2009
  - Evolutionary descent of a human chromosome 6 neocentromere: A jump back to 17 million years ago
    Oronzo Capozzi
    Stefania Purgato
    Pietro D'Addabbo
    Nicoletta Archidiacono
    Paola Battaglia
    Anna Baroncini
    ...[+1 authors]...,
    Antonella Capucci
    Roscoe Stanyon
    Giuliano Della Valle
    Mariano Rocchi
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - The impact of genomic neighborhood on the evolution of human and chimpanzee transcriptome
    Subhajyoti De
    Sarah A. Teichmann
    M. Madan Babu
    First Published February 19, 2009
  - Global distribution of genomic diversity underscores rich complex history of continental human populations
    Adam Auton
    Katarzyna Bryc
    Adam R. Boyko
    Kirk E. Lohmueller
    John Novembre
    Andy Reynolds Amit Indap Mark H. Wright Jeremiah D. Degenhardt
    ...[+4 authors]...,
    Ryan N. Gutenkunst
    Karen S. King
    Matthew R. Nelson
    Carlos D. Bustamante
    First Published February 13, 2009
  - Geographical structure and differential natural selection among North European populations
    Brian P. McEvoy
    Grant W. Montgomery
    Allan F. McRae
    Samuli Ripatti
    Markus Perola
    Tim D. Spector Lynn Cherkas Kourosh R. Ahmadi Dorret Boomsma Gonneke Willemsen Jouke J. Hottenga Nancy L. Pedersen Patrik K.E. Magnusson Kirsten Ohm Kyvik Kaare Christensen Jaakko Kaprio Kauko Heikkilä Aarno Palotie Elisabeth Widen Juha Muilu Ann-Christine Syvänen Ulrika Liljedahl Orla Hardiman
    ...[+18 authors]...,
    Simon Cronin
    Leena Peltonen
    Nicholas G. Martin
    Peter M. Visscher
    First Published March 5, 2009
  - Fine-scaled human genetic structure revealed by SNP microarrays
    Jinchuan Xing
    W. Scott Watkins
    David J. Witherspoon
    Yuhua Zhang
    Stephen L. Guthery
    Rangaswamy Thara
    ...[+1 authors]...,
    Bryan J. Mowry
    Kazima Bulayeva
    Robert B. Weiss
    Lynn B. Jorde
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations
    Joseph K. Pickrell
    Graham Coop
    John Novembre
    Sridhar Kudaravalli
    Jun Z. Li
    Devin Absher Balaji S. Srinivasan
    ...[+2 authors]...,
    Gregory S. Barsh
    Richard M. Myers
    Marcus W. Feldman
    Jonathan K. Pritchard
    First Published March 23, 2009
  - Darwinian and demographic forces affecting human protein coding genes
    Rasmus Nielsen
    Melissa J. Hubisz
    Ines Hellmann
    Dara Torgerson
    Aida M. Andrés
    Anders Albrechtsen Ryan Gutenkunst Mark D. Adams Michele Cargill
    ...[+4 authors]...,
    Adam Boyko
    Amit Indap
    Carlos D. Bustamante
    Andrew G. Clark
    First Published March 11, 2009
  - The apolipoprotein L family of programmed cell death and immunity genes rapidly evolved in primates at discrete sites of host–pathogen interactions
    Eric E. Smith
    Harmit S. Malik
    First Published March 19, 2009
  - Adaptive evolution of young gene duplicates in mammals
    Mira V. Han
    Jeffery P. Demuth
    Casey L. McGrath
    Claudio Casola
    Matthew W. Hahn
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Mosaic retroposon insertion patterns in placental mammals
    Gennady Churakov
    Jan Ole Kriegs
    Robert Baertsch
    Anja Zemann
    Jürgen Brosius
    First Published March 4, 2009
  - Comparative analysis of Alu repeats in primate genomes
    George E. Liu
    Can Alkan
    Lu Jiang
    Shaying Zhao
    Evan E. Eichler
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Proteomic discovery of previously unannotated, rapidly evolving seminal fluid genes in Drosophila
    Geoffrey D. Findlay
    Michael J. MacCoss
    Willie J. Swanson
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus
    Maria D. Vibranovski
    Yong Zhang
    Manyuan Long
    First Published February 27, 2009
  - The single mitochondrial chromosome typical of animals has evolved into 18 minichromosomes in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus
    Renfu Shao
    Ewen F. Kirkness
    Stephen C. Barker
    First Published March 31, 2009
  - Alternative splicing of anciently exonized 5S rRNA regulates plant transcription factor TFIIIA
    Yan Fu
    Oliver Bannach
    Hao Chen
    Jan-Hendrik Teune
    Axel Schmitz
    First Published February 10, 2009
Methods
- - The difficulty of avoiding false positives in genome scans for natural selection
    Swapan Mallick
    Sante Gnerre
    Paul Muller
    David Reich
    First Published May 1, 2009
Resource
- - Recovering genome rearrangements in the mammalian phylogeny
    Hao Zhao
    Guillaume Bourque
    First Published May 1, 2009
  - Breakpoint graphs and ancestral genome reconstructions
    Max A. Alekseyev
    Pavel A. Pevzner
    First Published February 13, 2009
Erratum
- - Erratum
    First Published May 1, 2009

Table of Contents

Volume 19, Issue 5 | May 2009

Preface

On the origin of Darwinism

Commentary

One hundred fifty years without Darwin are enough!

‘Why genomes in pieces?’ revisited: Sucking lice do their own thing in mtDNA circle game

Perspective

Non-Darwinian estimation: My ancestors, my genes' ancestors

Constructing genomic maps of positive selection in humans: Where do we go from here?

Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in mice, flies, and humans

Evolution under canalization and the dual roles of microRNAs—A hypothesis

On the origin of prokaryotic species

Article

Meiotic recombination generates rich diversity in NK cell receptor genes, alleles, and haplotypes

Letter

Breakpoint regions and homologous synteny blocks in chromosomes have different evolutionary histories

Evolutionary descent of a human chromosome 6 neocentromere: A jump back to 17 million years ago

The impact of genomic neighborhood on the evolution of human and chimpanzee transcriptome

Global distribution of genomic diversity underscores rich complex history of continental human populations

Geographical structure and differential natural selection among North European populations

Fine-scaled human genetic structure revealed by SNP microarrays

Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

Darwinian and demographic forces affecting human protein coding genes

The apolipoprotein L family of programmed cell death and immunity genes rapidly evolved in primates at discrete sites of host–pathogen interactions

Adaptive evolution of young gene duplicates in mammals

Mosaic retroposon insertion patterns in placental mammals

Comparative analysis of Alu repeats in primate genomes

Proteomic discovery of previously unannotated, rapidly evolving seminal fluid genes in Drosophila

General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus

The single mitochondrial chromosome typical of animals has evolved into 18 minichromosomes in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus

Alternative splicing of anciently exonized 5S rRNA regulates plant transcription factor TFIIIA

Methods

The difficulty of avoiding false positives in genome scans for natural selection

Resource

Recovering genome rearrangements in the mammalian phylogeny

Breakpoint graphs and ancestral genome reconstructions

Erratum

Erratum

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