1. On the Crucial Stages in the Origin of Animate Matter

   • Shneior Lifson

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 1 - 8

2. Erratic Evolution of Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in Drosophila, Chymomyza, and Ceratitis

   • Jan Kwiatowski
   • Michal Krawczyk
   • F.J. Ayala

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 9 - 22

3. Selection and Methionine Accumulation in the Fat Body Protein 2 Gene (FBP2), a Duplicate of the Drosophila Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) Gene

   • Gilles K. Meghlaoui
   • Michel Veuille

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 23 - 32

4. The Reverse-Transcriptase-Like Proteins Encoded by Group II Introns in the Mitochondrial Genome of the Brown Alga Pylaiella littoralis Belong to Two Different Lineages Which Apparently Coevolved with the Group II Ribosyme Lineages

   • Jean-Marc Fontaine
   • Didier Goux
   • Susan Loiseaux-de Goër

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 33 - 42

5. Of Worms and Men: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Fibroblast Growth Factor (FGF) and FGF Receptor Families

   • François Coulier
   • Pierre Pontarotti
   • Daniel Birnbaum

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 43 - 56

6. Molecular Diversity and Evolution of bla _TEM Genes Encoding β-Lactamases Resistant to Clavulanic Acid in Clinical E. coli

   • Maria Manuela M. Caniça
   • Chang Y. Lu
   • Gérard C. Paul

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 57 - 65

7. Conserved Clusters of Functionally Related Genes in Two Bacterial Genomes

   • Javier Tamames
   • Georg Casari
   • Alfonso Valencia

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 66 - 73

8. Analysis of Orthologous Retrovirus-Like Elements in the White-Footed Mouse, Peromyscus leucopus

   • Ryan Sawby
   • Holly A. Wichman

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 74 - 80

9. Contribution of Mutation and RNA Recombination to the Evolution of a Plant Pathogenic RNA

   • Miguel A. Aranda
   • Aurora Fraile
   • Fernando García-Arenal

   OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 81 - 88

10. Structural Comparisons of Muscle and Nonmuscle Actins Give Insights Into the Evolution of Their Functional Differences

    • Nicole Mounier
    • John C. Sparrow

    OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 89 - 97

11. Phylogenetic Position of the Mitochondrion-Lacking Protozoan Trichomonas tenax, Based on Amino Acid Sequences of Elongation Factors 1α and 2

    • Ayako Yamamoto
    • Tetsuo Hashimoto
    • Nobuichi Goto

    OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 98 - 105

12. Pyrophosphate and Adenosine 5′-Diphosphate Synthesis from Phospho(enol)pyruvate: Catalysis by Phosphate Minerals and Modulation by Dimethyl Sulfoxide

    • Marcelo Hermes-Lima
    • Ana Claudia Tessis
    • Adalberto Vieyra

    OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 106 - 111

13. Estimating the Transition/Transversion Ratio from Independent Pairwise Comparisons with an Assumed Phylogeny

    • Andy Purvis
    • Lindell Bromham

    OriginalPaper 13 March 2014 Pages: 112 - 119