1. The Coevolution Theory of the Origin of the Genetic Code

   • Massimo Di Giulio

   Pages: 253 - 254

2. Response

   • Ramin Amirnovin
   • Stanley L. Miller

   Pages: 254 - 255

3. What Can 18S rDNA Do for Bivalve Phylogeny?

   • Gonzalo Giribet
   • Salvador Carranza

   Pages: 256 - 258

4. Response

   • Gerhard Steiner

   Pages: 258 - 261

5. The Drosophila virilis Alcohol Dehydrogenase Catalytic Residues Are Conserved

   • Sílvia Atrian
   • Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte

   Pages: 262 - 263

6. A Novel Approach to Phylogeny Reconstruction from Protein Sequences

   • Nick V. Grishin

   Pages: 264 - 273

7. Estimation of the Transition/Transversion Rate Bias and Species Sampling

   • Ziheng Yang
   • Anne D. Yoder

   Pages: 274 - 283

8. Compositional Bias May Affect Both DNA-Based and Protein-Based Phylogenetic Reconstructions

   • Peter G. Foster
   • Donal A. Hickey

   Pages: 284 - 290

9. Novel Predicted RNA-Binding Domains Associated with the Translation Machinery

   • L. Aravind
   • Eugene V. Koonin

   Pages: 291 - 302

10. Plant Mitochondrial RNA Editing

    • Siegfried Steinhauser
    • Susanne Beckert
    • Volker Knoop

    Pages: 303 - 312

11. Evolution of Microsatellites in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Role of Length and Number of Repeated Units

    • Tal Pupko
    • Dan Graur

    Pages: 313 - 316

12. Genomic Organization Around the Centromeric End of the HLA Class I Region: Large-Scale Sequence Analysis

    • Masaaki Yamazaki
    • Yoshio Tateno
    • Hidetoshi Inoko

    Pages: 317 - 327

13. A Mariner-Like Transposable Element in the Insect Parasite Nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

    • Eric Grenier
    • Monique Abadon
    • Pierre Abad

    Pages: 328 - 336

14. A Group I Intron in the 18S Ribosomal DNA from the Parasitic Fungus Isaria japonica

    • Yuko Ito
    • Takashi Hirano

    Pages: 337 - 340

15. Evolution of Chitin-Binding Proteins in Invertebrates

    • Zhicheng Shen
    • Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

    Pages: 341 - 347

16. Partial Sequence of the Mitochondrial Genome of Littorina saxatilis: Relevance to Gastropod Phylogenetics

    • Craig S. Wilding
    • Peter J. Mill
    • John Grahame

    Pages: 348 - 359

17. Inclusion of Cetaceans Within the Order Artiodactyla Based on Phylogenetic Analysis of Pancreatic Ribonuclease Genes

    • Reinhard G. Kleineidam
    • Graziano Pesole
    • Ron. A. Kastelein

    Pages: 360 - 368

18. Multiple Substitutions Affect the Phylogenetic Utility of Cytochrome b and 12S rDNA Data: Examining a Rapid Radiation in Leporid (Lagomorpha) Evolution

    • Kenneth M. Halanych
    • Terence J. Robinson

    Pages: 369 - 379

19. A Translocated Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Pseudogene in Voles (Rodentia: Microtus)

    • J. Andrew DeWoody
    • Ronald K. Chesser
    • Robert J. Baker

    Pages: 380 - 382