Journal of Molecular Evolution - The Journal of Molecular Evolution Turns 50
Special Issue: The Journal of Molecular Evolution Turns 50
Editors: Aaron Goldman and David Liberles
In this special issue, we celebrate the history of this journal and the field that it chronicled over the last half century and here we highlight some of the most important studies that were published over the journal’s history. This sampling of topics reflects the choices of individual editors and is necessarily non-exhaustive. We invited current members of the editorial board to each choose an article from the journal archive that has had a substantial impact on their respective discipline and write a perspective piece summarizing the article, its scientific context, the subsequent research that it motivated since its publication, and their perspective on future directions in that area. We present 10 such articles in this issue, which span a broad range of topics with molecular evolution. While the articles in this 50th anniversary edition celebrate a selection of the past achievements published in the journal, they also describe the subsequent research that they have motivated since its publication and the future research that they are likely to inspire. As documented here, molecular evolution has had a storied history. It will also undoubtedly have a far reaching and consequential future, where it now more than ever lies at the center of modern biology (Goldman and Liberles, 2021).
* Artist: Claire Probst, Berlin, NJ, USA
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The Journal of Molecular Evolution Turns 50
Aaron Goldman and David Liberles
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-10000-w (this opens in a new tab)
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Richard Dickerson, Molecular Clocks, and Rates of Protein Evolution
David Alvarez-Ponce
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09973-x (this opens in a new tab)
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Cofactors are Remnants of Life’s Origin and Early Evolution
Aaron D. Goldman & Betul Kacar
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09988-4 (this opens in a new tab)
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Felsenstein Phylogenetic Likelihood
David Posada & Keith A. Crandall
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09982-w (this opens in a new tab)
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Quest for the Best Evolutionary Model
Rafael Zardoya
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09971-z (this opens in a new tab)
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Correction to: Quest for the Best Evolutionary Model
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09992-8 (this opens in a new tab)
Plant Mitochondria are a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
Alan C. Christensen
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09980-y (this opens in a new tab)
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Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction: From Chemical Paleogenetics to Maximum Likelihood Algorithms and Beyond
Avery G. A. Selberg, Eric A. Gaucher & David A. Liberles
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-09993-1 (this opens in a new tab)
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Revisiting the Relationships Between Genomic G + C Content, RNA Secondary Structures, and Optimal Growth Temperature
Michelle M. Meyer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09974-w (this opens in a new tab)
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Constructive Neutral Evolution 20 Years Later
Sergio A. Muñoz-Gómez, Gaurav Bilolikar, Jeremy G. Wideman & Kerry Geiler-Samerotte
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-09996-y (this opens in a new tab)
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The Semi-Enzymatic Origin of Metabolic Pathways: Inferring a Very Early Stage of the Evolution of Life
Arturo Becerra
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-021-09994-0 (this opens in a new tab)
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Directed Evolution. The Legacy of a Nobel Prize
Konstantinos Voskarides
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00239-020-09972-y (this opens in a new tab)
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