1. Forthcoming Papers

   Announcement Pages: iii - iii

2. Evolution of restriction sites of ribosomal DNA in natural populations of the field mouse, Apodemus speciosus

   • Hitoshi Suzuki
   • Kimiyuki Tsuchiya
   • Susumu Sakurai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 112

3. A frame-specific symmetry of complementary strands of DNA suggests the existence of genes on the antisense strand

   • Tetsuya Yomo
   • Itaru Urabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 120

4. Evolution of murine α₁-proteinase inhibitors: Gene amplification and reactive center divergence

   • Carol Rheaume
   • Richard L. Goodwin
   • Franklin G. Bergen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 131

5. Retrotransposition of a plant SINE into the wx locus during evolution of rice

   • H. -Y. Hirano
   • K. Mochizuki
   • Y. Sano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 137

6. The complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization of carp (Cyprinus carpio) mitochondrial genome

   • Yea-sha Chang
   • Fore-lien Huang
   • Tung-bin Lo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 138 - 155

7. Speciation in the Artemia genus: Mitochondrial DNA analysis of bisexual and parthenogenetic brine shrimps

   • Maria Luz Perez
   • José Ramón Valverde
   • Rafael Garesse

   OriginalPaper Pages: 156 - 168

8. Molecular characterization of the rh-like locus and gene transcripts from the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta)

   • Isabelle Mouro
   • Caroline Le Van Kim
   • Yves Colin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 176

9. Evolution of prothrombin: Isolation and characterization of the cDNAs encoding chicken and hagfish prothrombin

   • David K. Banfield
   • David M. Irwin
   • Ross T.A. MacGillivray

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 187

10. Similarity landscapes: A way to detect many structural and sequence motifs in both introns and exons

    • Michael Hultner
    • Douglas W. Smith
    • Christopher Wills

    OriginalPaper Pages: 188 - 203

11. Errata

    Erratum Pages: 204 - 204