Add MS 86840/67

Annotations and manuscripts originally part of a collection of offprints etc. received by John Maynard Smith filed under 'Ma'. Contents include:

• Handwritten letter from Gilean A.T. McVean to Maynard Smith; 15 Sep 1999. Attached to 'The evolution of codon preferences in drosophila: a maximum-likelihood approach to parameter estimation and hypothesis testing' by Gilean A.T. McVean and J. Vieira.

• Annotation to 'Evolutionary lability of context-dependent codon bias in bacteria' by Gilean .A.T. McVean and Gregory D.D. Hurst. Annotation reads: 'Dear John, it took a long time, but finally here is mine and Gregg's paper on context-dependent codon bias. G'.

• Annotation to draft of 'Phylogenetic histories within and among species' by W. Maddison. Annotation reads: 'To be part of symposium volume in Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden' [Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden]. Published as Maddison, W. P. “Phylogenetic Histories within and among Species.” In Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant Biosystematics, edited by P. C. Hoch and A. G. Stevenson, pp. 273–287. St. Louis, 1995.

• Annotation to 'Differential games in evolutionary theory: height growth strategies of trees ' by A. Makela. Annotation reads: 'To prof Maynard-Smith, with grateful thanks for your advice, Annikki Makela'.

• Annotation to 'Gamete dimorphism and the cost of sexual reproduction: are they separate phenomena?' by J.T. Manning. Annotation reads: 'Best wishes-John T. Manning '.

• Annotation to 'Is sex maintained to facilitate or minimize mutational advance?' by J.T. Manning. Annotation reads: 'For Professor John Maynard Smith, Best wishes, John T. Manning'.

• Annotation to 'The balance argument and the evolution of sex' by J.T. Manning. Annotation reads 'Best wishes, John'.

• Annotation to 'Manipulation, modulation, information, cognition: some of the riddles of communication' by H. Markl. Annotation reads: 'For John Maynard Smith, with compliments and in admiration, Jim Markl'.

• Annotation to 'Specific distinctiveness in the communication signals of birds' by P. Marler. Annotation reads: 'With many thanks for your help, Peter'.

• Annotation to 'The evolutionary process in talitrid amphipods and salamanders in changing environments, with a discussion of 'genetic assimilation' and some other evolutionary concepts' by R. Matsuda. Annotation reads: 'Prof Maynard-Smith, with compliment of the author'.

• Draft of 'High polymorphism of mutation rates in commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli natural isolates' by E. Bingen, E. Denamur, C. Doit, J. Elion, I. Matic, B. Picard, M. Radman and F. Taddei.

The full range of authors represented in the original collection of offprints etc. filed under 'Ma' is: J. Vaun McArthur, Josephine McCauley, Gary F. McCracken, Roy N. McDiarmid, John F. McDonald, S.J. McNaughton, G.A.T. McVean, Wayne Maddison, T.R. Magee, Marjorie M. Maguire, Annikki Makela, A. Malagolowkin, Russell L. Malmberg, J.T. Manning, Lynn Margulius, Daniel Marier, Hubert Markel, P. Marler, David F. Marshall, Bob Martin, Wharton B. Mather, Ivan Matik, Ryuichi Matsuda, Margaret Masterman, Sheila Maynard Smith and O. Mayo. The date range of the original collection of offprints etc. filed under 'Ma' is 1954-2000.