1. Anopheles stephensi Dox-A2 Shares Common Ancestry with Genes from Distant Groups of Eukaryotes Encoding a 26S Proteasome Subunit and Is in a Conserved Gene Cluster

   • C.F. Garvey
   • C.A. Malcolm

   Pages: 497 - 509

2. Using Alu J Elements as Molecular Clocks to Trace the Evolutionary Relationships Between Duplicated HLA Class I Genomic Segments

   • Jerzy K. Kulski
   • Silvana Gaudieri
   • Roger L. Dawkins

   Pages: 510 - 519

3. Molecular Evolution of Apoptotic Pathways: Cloning of Key Domains from Sponges (Bcl-2 Homology Domains and Death Domains) and Their Phylogenetic Relationships

   • Matthias Wiens
   • Anatoli Krasko
   • Werner E.G. Müller

   Pages: 520 - 531

4. Phylogenetic Relationships of Acanthocephala Based on Analysis of 18S Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences

   • Martín García-Varela
   • Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
   • Juan P. Laclette

   Pages: 532 - 540

5. Formation of the Japanese Carabina Fauna Inferred from a Phylogenetic Tree of Mitochondrial ND5 Gene Sequences (Coleoptera, Carabidae)

   • Osamu Tominaga
   • Zhi-Hui Su
   • Syozo Osawa

   Pages: 541 - 549

6. Molecular Characterization of STAT5A- and STAT5B-Encoding Genes Reveals Extended Intragenic Sequence Homogeneity in Cattle and Mouse and Different Degrees of Divergent Evolution of Various Domains

   • Hans-Martin Seyfert
   • Christian Pitra
   • Manfred Schwerin

   Pages: 550 - 561

7. Evolutionary Rate Acceleration of Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit I in Simian Primates

   • T. Daniel Andrews
   • Simon Easteal

   Pages: 562 - 568

8. The Mitochondrial Genome of the Sperm Whale and a New Molecular Reference for Estimating Eutherian Divergence Dates

   • Ulfur Arnason
   • Anette Gullberg
   • Axel Janke

   Pages: 569 - 578