1. Mineral Catalysis of a Potentially Prebiotic Aldol Condensation

   • R.M. De Graaf
   • J. Visscher
   • Alan W. Schwartz

   Pages: 501 - 507

2. The Root of the Universal Tree of Life Inferred from Anciently Duplicated Genes Encoding Components of the Protein-Targeting Machinery

   • Simonetta Gribaldo
   • Piero Cammarano

   Pages: 508 - 516

3. Symbiosis Between Methanogenic Archaea and δ-Proteobacteria as the Origin of Eukaryotes: The Syntrophic Hypothesis

   • David Moreira
   • Purificación López-García

   Pages: 517 - 530

4. Identification of the First Fungal Annexin: Analysis of Annexin Gene Duplications and Implications for Eukaryotic Evolution

   • Edward L. Braun
   • Seogchan Kang
   • Donald O. Natvig

   Pages: 531 - 543

5. Actin Phylogeny Identifies Mesostigma viride as a Flagellate Ancestor of the Land Plants

   • Debashish Bhattacharya
   • Klaus Weber
   • Wolfgang Berning-Koch

   Pages: 544 - 550

6. Molecular Evolution Modeled as a Fractal Renewal Point Process in Agreement with the Dispersion of Substitutions in Mammalian Genes

   • David R. Bickel
   • Bruce J. West

   Pages: 551 - 556

7. What Amino Acid Properties Affect Protein Evolution?

   • Xuhua Xia
   • Wen-Hsiung Li

   Pages: 557 - 564

8. Heat Shock Protein 70 Family: Multiple Sequence Comparisons, Function, and Evolution

   • Samuel Karlin
   • Luciano Brocchieri

   Pages: 565 - 577

9. Isolation of Mhc Class II DMA and DMB cDNA Sequences in a Marsupial: The Gray Short-Tailed Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

   • Colm O'hUigin
   • Holger Sültmann
   • Brent W. Murray

   Pages: 578 - 585

10. Performance of 18S rRNA in Littorinid Phylogeny (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda)

    • Birgitta M.H. Winnepenninckx
    • David G. Reid
    • Thierry Backeljau

    Pages: 586 - 596

11. Phylogeny of Nematoda and Cephalorhyncha Derived from 18S rDNA

    • Vladimir V. Aleshin
    • Irina A. Milyutina
    • Nikolai B. Petrov

    Pages: 597 - 605

12. Sociality and the Rate of rDNA Sequence Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae) and Honeybees (Apis)

    • J. Schmitz
    • R.F.A. Moritz

    Pages: 606 - 612

13. Phylogeographic Patterns and Evolution of the Mitochondrial DNA Control Region in Two Neotropical Cats (Mammalia, Felidae)

    • Eduardo Eizirik
    • Sandro L. Bonatto
    • Francisco M. Salzano

    Pages: 613 - 624

14. Ancient Origin of Human Complement Factor H

    • Julia Krushkal
    • Claudia Kemper
    • Irma Gigli

    Pages: 625 - 630

15. Did Archaeal and Bacterial Cells Arise Independently from Noncellular Precursors? A Hypothesis Stating That the Advent of Membrane Phospholipid with Enantiomeric Glycerophosphate Backbones Caused the Separation of the Two Lines of Descent

    • Y. Koga
    • T. Kyuragi
    • N. Sone

    Pages: 631 - 631