1. Invertebrate Species with Nonpelagic Larvae Have Elevated Levels of Nonsynonymous Substitutions and Reduced Nucleotide Diversities

   • David W. Foltz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 612

   

2. Comparisons of Two Large Phaeoviral Genomes and Evolutionary Implications

   • Nicolas Delaroque
   • Wilhelm Boland
   • Rolf Knippers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 613 - 622

   

3. Marked Intragenomic Heterogeneity and Geographical Differentiation of nrDNA ITS in Larix potaninii (Pinaceae)

   • Xiao-Xin Wei
   • Xiao-Quan Wang
   • De-Yuan Hong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 635

   

4. Relative Rates of Nucleotide Substitution in Frogs

   • Andrew J. Crawford

   OriginalPaper Pages: 636 - 641

   

5. Presence of dUTPase in the Various Human Endogenous Retrovirus K (HERV-K) Families

   • Jens Mayer
   • Eckart U. Meese

   OriginalPaper Pages: 642 - 649

   

6. Selective Pressure on the Allantoicase Gene During Vertebrate Evolution

   • Davide Vigetti
   • Giorgio Binelli
   • Rosalba Gornati

   OriginalPaper Pages: 650 - 658

   

7. Highly Variable Polymorphism of the α-Amylase Gene Family in Litopenaeus vannamei (Crustacea Decapoda)

   • Alain Van Wormhoudt
   • Daniel Sellos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 671

   

8. Speciation in Chlamydia: Genomewide Phylogenetic Analyses Identified a Reliable Set of Acquired Genes

   • Csaba Ortutay
   • Zoltán Gáspári
   • Tibor Vellai

   OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 680

   

9. A Comparison of Intraspecific Patterns of DNA Sequence Variation in Mitochondrial DNA, α-Enolase, and MHC Class II B Loci in Auklets (Charadriiformes: Alcidae)

   • Hollie E. Walsh
   • Vicki L. Friesen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 681 - 693

   

10. Mammalian Mutation Pressure, Synonymous Codon Choice, and mRNA Degradation

    • Jubao Duan
    • Marcos A. Antezana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 694 - 701

    

11. Evolutionary History and Mode of the amylase Multigene Family in Drosophila

    • Ze Zhang
    • Nobuyuki Inomata
    • Hirohisa Kishino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 702 - 709

    

12. Phylogeny and Self-Splicing Ability of the Plastid tRNA-Leu Group I Intron

    • Dawn Simon
    • David Fewer
    • Debashish Bhattacharya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 710 - 720

    

13. The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles

    • Massimo Di Giulio

    OriginalPaper Pages: 721 - 730

    

14. Selection for Highly Biased Amino Acid Frequency in the TolA Cell Envelope Protein of Proteobacteria

    • Alejandro P. Rooney

    OriginalPaper Pages: 731 - 736

    

15. Lineage-Specific Homogenization of the Polyubiquitin Gene Among Human and Great Apes

    • Hiroshi Tachikui
    • Naruya Saitou
    • Ituro Inoue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 737 - 744

    

16. Phylogenetic Analysis of Vertebrate Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) Multigene Families

    • Yi-Ju Li
    • Stephen C. -M. Tsoi
    • Steven Shoei-lung Li

    Erratum Pages: 745 - 745

17. Author Index to Volume 57 (2003)

    • Springer-Verlag

    Index Pages: 749 - 750