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MOLECULAR STRATEGIES IN BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

Volume 870 published May 1999
Editors:
Lynn Helena Caporale
Index of Authors
Contents
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Lynn Helena Caporale
Preface
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: xi. [Full Text] [PDF]  
Lynn Helena Caporale
Introductory Remarks
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: xiii. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution: Chance Favors the Prepared Genome:
LYNN HELENA CAPORALE
Chance Favors the Prepared Genome
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 1-21. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part I. Structured Pathways for Variation: Evolution As a Biological Function:
JAMES A. SHAPIRO
Part I. Introduction
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 22. [Full Text] [PDF]  

JAMES A. SHAPIRO
Genome System Architecture and Natural Genetic Engineering in Evolution
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 23-35. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

WERNER ARBER
Involvement of Gene Products in Bacterial Evolution
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 36-44. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUSANNA LEWIS, ERCAN AKGÜN, and MARIA JASIN
Palindromic DNA and Genome Stability: Further Studies
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 45-57. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUSANNA M. LEWIS
Evolution of Immunoglobulin and T-Cell Receptor Gene Assembly
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 58-67. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RUTH M. HALL, CHRISTINA M. COLLIS, MI-JURNG KIM, SALLY R. PARTRIDGE, GAVIN D. RECCHIA, and H. W. STOKES
Mobile Gene Cassettes and Integrons in Evolution
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 68-80. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GIUSEPPE D'ONOFRIO, KAMEL JABBARI, HÉCTOR MUSTO, FERNANDO ALVAREZ-VALIN, STEPHANE CRUVEILLER, and GIORGIO BERNARDI
Evolutionary Genomics of Vertebrates and Its Implications
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 81-94. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

JAMES A. SHAPIRO
Part I. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 95-98. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part II. Modulation of Fidelity and Repair: Fidelity and Flexibility in Evolution:
STEPHEN J. BENKOVIC
Part II. Introduction
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 99. [Full Text] [PDF]  

JOHN W. DRAKE
The Distribution of Rates of Spontaneous Mutation over Viruses, Prokaryotes, and Eukaryotes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 100-107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ABRAM GABRIEL and EMILIE H. MULES
Fidelity of Retrotransposon Replication
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 108-118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ALAN HERBERT and ALEXANDER RICH
RNA Processing in Evolution: The Logic of Soft-Wired Genomesa
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 119-132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATRICIA L. FOSTER and WILLIAM A. ROSCHE
Mechanisms of Mutation in Nondividing Cells: Insights from the Study of Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 133-145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MIROSLAV RADMAN, IVAN MATIC, and FRANÇOIS TADDEI
Evolution of Evolvability
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 146-155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

STEPHEN J. BENKOVIC
Part II. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 156. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part III. Context-Dependent Genetic Alteration: Cell and Sequence Context-Dependent Effects on Genetic Variation:
LYNN S. RIPLEY
Part III. Introduction
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 157-158. [Full Text] [PDF]  

LYNN S. RIPLEY
Predictability of Mutant Sequences: Relationships between Mutational Mechanisms and Mutant Specificity
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 159-172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RICHARD R. SINDEN, VERA I. HASHEM, and WILLIAM A. ROSCHE
DNA-Directed Mutations: Leading and Lagging Strand Specificity
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 173-189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

LARRY SIMPSON and DMITRI A. MASLOV
Evolution of the U-Insertion/Deletion RNA Editing in Mitochondria of Kinetoplastid Protozoa
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 190-205. [Full Text] [PDF]  

AMY KENTER and ROBERT WUERFFEL
Immunoglobulin Switch Recombination May Occur by a DNA End-Joining Mechanism
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 206-217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

LYNN S. RIPLEY
Part III. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 218-219. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part IV. New Contexts for Functional DNA Sequences: How Do New Functions Evolve?:
DOUGLAS L. PITTMAN, KERRY J. SCHIMENTI, WILLIAM H. HANNEMAN, and JOHN C. SCHIMENTI
Transgenic and Mutational Analyses of Meiotic Recombination in Mice
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 220-222. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BALDOMERO M. OLIVERA, CRAIG WALKER, G. EDWARD CARTIER, DAVID HOOPER, AMEURFINA D. SANTOS, ROBERT SCHOENFELD, RESHMA SHETTY, MAREN WATKINS, PRADIP BANDYOPADHYAY, and DAVID R. HILLYARD
Speciation of Cone Snails and Interspecific Hyperdivergence of Their Venom Peptides: Potential Evolutionary Significance of Introns
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 223-237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

FRANK H. RUDDLE, CHRIS T. AMEMIYA, JANET L. CARR, CHANG-BAE KIM, CHRISTINA LEDJE, COODUVALLI S. SHASHIKANT, and GÜNTER P. WAGNER
Evolution of Chordate Hox Gene Clusters
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 238-248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MONICA RILEY
Part IV. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 249-250. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part V. Regulation of Genetic Variation:
NINA V. FEDOROFF
Transposable Elements As a Molecular Evolutionary Force
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 251-264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SHIGERU IIDA, ATSUSHI HOSHINO, YASUYO JOHZUKA-HISATOMI, YOSHIKI HABU, and YOSHISHIGE INAGAKI
Floricultural Traits and Transposable Elements in the Japanese and Common Morning Gloriesa
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 265-274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MARY-JANE LOMBARDO, JOEL TORKELSON, HAROLD J. BULL, GREGORY J. McKENZIE, and SUSAN M. ROSENBERG
Mechanisms of Genome-Wide Hypermutation in Stationary Phase
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 275-289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EVELYN FOX KELLER
Part V. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 290-291. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Part VI. Genomes As Evolving Systems:
TAKASHI GOJOBORI
Part VI. Introduction
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 292. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MATTHEW I. BELLGARD, TAKESHI ITOH, HIDEMI WATANABE, TADASHI IMANISHI, and TAKASHI GOJOBORI
Dynamic Evolution of Genomes and the Concept of Genome Space
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 293-300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

DAVID M. PRESCOTT
Evolution of DNA Organization in Hypotrichous Ciliates
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 301-313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

JAN MRÁZEK and SAMUEL KARLIN
Detecting Alien Genes in Bacterial Genomes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 314-329. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDWARD N. TRIFONOV
Elucidating Sequence Codes: Three Codes for Evolution
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 330-338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

TAKASHI GOJOBORI
Part VI. Summary
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 339-340. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution: Closing Session:
WERNER ARBER
Closing Session: Future Directions: Strategies and Perspectives
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 341. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MACLYN McCARY
Further Remarks
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 342-343. [Full Text] [PDF]  

WERNER ARBER
Concluding Remarks
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 344-345. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution: Poster Session:
DAVID THALER
Introduction to the Poster Presentations: Developmental Themes and Evolution
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 346-348. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDWARD A. CURTIS and LAURA F. LANDWEBER
Evolution of Gene Scrambling in Ciliate Micronuclear Genes
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 349-350. [Full Text] [PDF]  

HIDEO GOTOH, DAHAI ZHU, and E. M. EDDY
Protein Binding to Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Mouse Testis
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 351-353. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ICHIZO KOBAYASHI
Homologous Recombination and Sex As a Strategy against Selfish Genes Attacking the Genome
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 354-356. [Full Text] [PDF]  

CAROLL E. HENRY, PHILIP OKORO, EVLENE STEWARD-CLARK, EDWARD D. GARBER, and MANFRED RUDDAT
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis of Ustilago violacea
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 357-361. [Full Text] [PDF]  

KATHELEEN GARDINER
Human Chromosome 21. Why 40 Mb?
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 362-368. [Full Text] [PDF]  

YOSHIMA TODA, RINTARO SAITO, and MASARU TOMITA
Sequence Patterns Observed in 5' Flanking Regions of Primate Alu Elements
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 369-374. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUSAN L. HOLBECK and JEFFREY N. STRATHERN
EXO1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Functions in Mutagenesis during Double-Strand Break Repair
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 375-377. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DAWN FIELD, MARCELO O. MAGNASCO, E. RICHARD MOXON, DAVID METZGAR, MARK M. TANAKA, CHRISTOPHER WILLS, and DAVID S. THALER
Contingency Loci, Mutator Alleles, and Their Interactions: Synergistic Strategies for Microbial Evolution and Adaptation in Pathogenesis
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 378-381. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ANGELICA LONGACRE, JACQUELINE M. REIMERS, and BARBARA E. WRIGHT
Specificity of Transcription-Enhanced Mutations
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 383-385. [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. VISWANATHAN, J. LIU, and P. W. DOETSCH
E. coli RNA Polymerase Bypass of DNA Base Damage: Mutagenesis at the Level of Transcription
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 386-388. [Full Text] [PDF]  

A.T. MIKHAILOV, M. TORRADO, M. PAZ, and L.I. KOROCHKIN
Gonad Recruitment of Carboxylesterase Genes during Evolution of the Reproductive System: Conserved Male-Specific Overexpression in Mussels, Fruitflies, and Mammals
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 389-391. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DAN D. LEVY and THOMAS A. CEBULA
Mutagenesis Patterns in a tRNA Mutation Marker Gene Altered to Include Repetitive Sequence Replicated in mutS E. coli
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 392-395. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DAVID G. KING
Modeling Selection for Adjustable Genes Based on Simple Sequence Repeats
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 396-399. [Full Text] [PDF]  

FRANCES H. ARNOLD, LORI GIVER, ANNE GERSHENSON, HUIMIN ZHAO, and KEN MIYAZAKI
Directed Evolution of Mesophilic Enzymes into Their Thermophilic Counterparts
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 400-403. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MILAN JUCOVIC and ANTHONY R. POTEETE
Protein Salvage by Directed Evolution: Functional Restoration of a Defective Lysozyme Mutant
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 404-407. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ROBIN D. KNIGHT and LAURA F. LANDWEBER
Is the Genetic Code Really a Frozen Accident? New Evidence from in Vitro Selection
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 408-410. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUNGCHUL JI
The Linguistics of DNA: Words, Sentences, Grammar, Phonetics, and Semantics
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 411-417. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RIVKA RUDNER, AUDREY MURRAY, and NAZMUL HUDA
Is There a Link between Mutation Rates and the Stringent Response in Bacillus subtilis?
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 418-422. [Full Text] [PDF]  

WILLIAM J. KOKOLUS, DENNIS A. JOHNSTON, and HERBERT A. FRITSCHE
Does the FountainTM Epitope Model's Rhythmic Hydropathy Continuum Pattern Satisfy the Requirements of a Nucleic Acid Meta-code or Protein Meta-form?
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 423-427. [Full Text] [PDF]  

M.PILAR FRANCINO and HOWARD OCHMAN
A Comparative Genomics Approach to DNA Asymmetry
Ann NY Acad Sci 1999 870: 428-431. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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