1. The Carboxylesterase Gene Family from Arabidopsis thaliana

   • Sean D. G. Marshall
   • Joanna J. Putterill
   • Richard D. Newcomb

   OriginalPaper Pages: 487 - 500

   

2. Phylogenetic Analysis of Vertebrate Fibrillar Collagen Locates the Position of Zebrafish α3(I) and Suggests an Evolutionary Link Between Collagen α Chains and Hox Clusters

   • Ghislaine Morvan-Dubois
   • Dominique Le Guellec
   • Laure Bonnaud

   OriginalPaper Pages: 501 - 514

   

3. EVG, the Remnants of a Primordial Bilaterian’s Synteny of Functionally Unrelated Genes

   • Begoña Granadino
   • Javier Rey-Campos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 519

   

4. Concerted Changes in the Nucleotide Sequences of the Intragenic Promoter Regions of Eukaryotic Genes for tRNAs of All Specificities

   • Tatiana M. Naykova
   • Yuri V. Kondrakhin
   • Aida G. Romaschenko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 520 - 532

   

5. Codon Usage Decreases the Error Minimization Within the Genetic Code

   • Chen-Tseh Zhu
   • Xiao-Bin Zeng
   • Wei-Da Huang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 533 - 537

   

6. Nonrandom Intragenic Variations in Patterns of Codon Bias Implicate a Sequential Interplay Between Transitional Genetic Drift and Functional Amino Acid Selection

   • K. Lin
   • S. B. Tan
   • R. J. Epstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 538 - 545

7. Interisland Mutation of a Novel Phospholipase A₂ from Trimeresurus flavoviridis Venom and Evolution of Crotalinae Group II Phospholipases A₂

   • Takahito Chijiwa
   • Sachiko Hamai
   • Motonori Ohno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 546 - 554

   

8. A Novel Family of Unconventional Actins in Volvocalean Algae

   • Takako Kato-Minoura
   • Masayo Okumura
   • Ritsu Kamiya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 555 - 561

   

9. Molecular Phylogeny of the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup

   • Wen-Ya Ko
   • Ryan M. David
   • Hiroshi Akashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 562 - 573

   

10. Mitochondrial Genome of Ciona savignyi (Urochordata, Ascidiacea, Enterogona): Comparison of Gene Arrangement and tRNA Genes with Halocynthia roretzi Mitochondrial Genome

    • Shin-ichi Yokobori
    • Yukari Watanabe
    • Tairo Oshima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 574 - 587

    

11. The Evolution of Parasite Recognition Genes in the Innate Immune System: Purifying Selection on Drosophila melanogaster Peptidoglycan Recognition Proteins

    • Francis M. Jiggins
    • Gregory D. D. Hurst

    OriginalPaper Pages: 598 - 605