Published in Gene on December 31, 2004
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Odor coding by a Mammalian receptor repertoire. Sci Signal (2009) 2.84
Selectionism and neutralism in molecular evolution. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 2.64
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Evaluating cell-surface expression and measuring activation of mammalian odorant receptors in heterologous cells. Nat Protoc (2008) 1.54
Sodium channel genes and the evolution of diversity in communication signals of electric fishes: convergent molecular evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.45
Rapid sequence and expression divergence suggest selection for novel function in primate-specific KRAB-ZNF genes. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 1.38
Ancient genomic architecture for mammalian olfactory receptor clusters. Genome Biol (2006) 1.29
Rapid birth-death evolution specific to xenobiotic cytochrome P450 genes in vertebrates. PLoS Genet (2007) 1.26
Olfactory receptor multigene family in vertebrates: from the viewpoint of evolutionary genomics. Curr Genomics (2012) 1.20
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Functional evolution of mammalian odorant receptors. PLoS Genet (2012) 1.05
Use it or lose it: molecular evolution of sensory signaling in primates. Pflugers Arch (2006) 1.00
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Independent evolutionary origin of fem paralogous genes and complementary sex determination in hymenopteran insects. PLoS One (2014) 0.80
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Aldehyde recognition and discrimination by mammalian odorant receptors via functional group-specific hydration chemistry. ACS Chem Biol (2014) 0.75
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MEGA: a biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences. Brief Bioinform (2008) 24.69
Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 20.53
Estimation of divergence times for major lineages of primate species. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 3.52
POPTREE2: Software for constructing population trees from allele frequency data and computing other population statistics with Windows interface. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 2.68
Overcredibility of molecular phylogenies obtained by Bayesian phylogenetics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.63
Extensive gains and losses of olfactory receptor genes in mammalian evolution. PLoS One (2007) 2.35
Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in fishes and tetrapods. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.32
Evolution of olfactory receptor genes in the human genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.97
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Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.94
Genomic drift and copy number variation of sensory receptor genes in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.80
Acceleration of genomic evolution caused by enhanced mutation rate in endocellular symbionts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.79
Origins and evolution of the recA/RAD51 gene family: evidence for ancient gene duplication and endosymbiotic gene transfer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.72
Evolution of F-box genes in plants: different modes of sequence divergence and their relationships with functional diversification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.70
False-positive selection identified by ML-based methods: examples from the Sig1 gene of the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii and the tax gene of a human T-cell lymphotropic virus. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 1.64
Type I MADS-box genes have experienced faster birth-and-death evolution than type II MADS-box genes in angiosperms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.62
Comparative evolutionary analysis of olfactory receptor gene clusters between humans and mice. Gene (2005) 1.55
Simulation study of the reliability and robustness of the statistical methods for detecting positive selection at single amino acid sites. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 1.50
Molecular evolution of the nontandemly repeated genes of the histone 3 multigene family. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 1.50
Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.48
Evolutionary change of the numbers of homeobox genes in bilateral animals. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 1.37
Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in Drosophila species. Genome Biol Evol (2010) 1.31
Reanalysis of Murphy et al.'s data gives various mammalian phylogenies and suggests overcredibility of Bayesian trees. J Mol Evol (2003) 1.30
Antiquity and evolution of the MADS-box gene family controlling flower development in plants. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.24
Heterogeneous but conserved natural killer receptor gene complexes in four major orders of mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.21
Empirical tests of the reliability of phylogenetic trees constructed with microsatellite DNA. Genetics (2008) 1.20
Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in plant species. Genome Biol Evol (2012) 1.20
Origin and evolution of influenza virus hemagglutinin genes. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 1.19
Concerted and nonconcerted evolution of the Hsp70 gene superfamily in two sibling species of nematodes. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.17
Birth-and-death evolution in primate MHC class I genes: divergence time estimates. Mol Biol Evol (2003) 1.11
The origins and early evolution of DNA mismatch repair genes--multiple horizontal gene transfers and co-evolution. Nucleic Acids Res (2007) 1.10
Purifying selection and birth-and-death evolution in the histone H4 gene family. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 1.09
Evolutionary dynamics of the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes in vertebrates. Immunogenetics (2008) 1.09
Rapid expansion of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor genes in primates and their coevolution with MHC Class I genes. Gene (2005) 1.09
Evolutionary redefinition of immunoglobulin light chain isotypes in tetrapods using molecular markers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.05
Origins and evolution of the formin multigene family that is involved in the formation of actin filaments. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 1.03
Ultraconserved coding regions outside the homeobox of mammalian Hox genes. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 0.98
Origin and evolution of the Ig-like domains present in mammalian leukocyte receptors: insights from chicken, frog, and fish homologues. Immunogenetics (2005) 0.98
Adaptive evolution of variable region genes encoding an unusual type of immunoglobulin in camelids. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 0.97
Genomic organization and evolutionary analysis of Ly49 genes encoding the rodent natural killer cell receptors: rapid evolution by repeated gene duplication. Immunogenetics (2004) 0.96
Origin and evolution of the chicken leukocyte receptor complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 0.95
Evolutionary changes of the target sites of two microRNAs encoded in the Hox gene cluster of Drosophila and other insect species. Genome Biol Evol (2010) 0.88
Analysis of the immunoglobulin light chain genes in zebra finch: evolutionary implications. Mol Biol Evol (2010) 0.86
Genomic drift and evolution of microsatellite DNAs in human populations. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 0.85
Genomic organization and evolution of immunoglobulin kappa gene enhancers and kappa deleting element in mammals. Mol Immunol (2009) 0.79
Eighty percent of proteins are different between humans and chimpanzees. Gene (2005) 0.79
A simple method for predicting the functional differentiation of duplicate genes and its application to MIKC-type MADS-box genes. Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 0.79
Evolution of the sex-lethal gene in insects and origin of the sex-determination system in Drosophila. J Mol Evol (2013) 0.78
Is positive selection responsible for the evolution of a duplicate UV-sensitive opsin gene in Heliconius butterflies? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.78
Random fluctuation of selection coefficients and the extent of nucleotide variation in human populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 0.75