1. The Muscle Ankyrin Repeat Proteins Are Hypoxia-Sensitive: In Vivo mRNA Expression in the Hypoxia-Tolerant Blind Subterranean Mole Rat, Spalax ehrenbergi

   • Mark Band
   • Alma Joel
   • Aaron Avivi

   OriginalPaper 05 December 2009 Pages: 1 - 12

   

2. Certain Non-Standard Coding Tables Appear to be More Robust to Error Than the Standard Genetic Code

   • Mehmet Levent Kurnaz
   • Tugce Bilgin
   • Isil Aksan Kurnaz

   OriginalPaper 10 December 2009 Pages: 13 - 28

   

3. The Origin of Conserved Protein Domains and Amino Acid Repeats Via Adaptive Competition for Control Over Amino Acid Residues

   • Mary M. Rorick
   • Günter P. Wagner

   OriginalPaper 19 December 2009 Pages: 29 - 43

   

4. Evolutionary Rates in Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae): Disentangling the Influence of Life History and Breeding System

   • Kai Müller
   • Dirk C. Albach

   OriginalPaper 19 December 2009 Pages: 44 - 56

   

5. The Mitochondrial Genomes of Two Scallops, Argopecten irradians and Chlamys farreri (Mollusca: Bivalvia): The Most Highly Rearranged Gene Order in the Family Pectinidae

   • Jianfeng Ren
   • Xin Shen
   • Bin Liu

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2009 Pages: 57 - 68

   

6. The Enrichment of TATA Box and the Scarcity of Depleted Proximal Nucleosome in the Promoters of Duplicated Yeast Genes

   • Yuseob Kim
   • Jang H. Lee
   • Gregory A. Babbitt

   OriginalPaper 16 December 2009 Pages: 69 - 73

   

7. The Phylogenetic Distribution of Non-CTCF Insulator Proteins Is Limited to Insects and Reveals that BEAF-32 Is Drosophila Lineage Specific

   • Todd A. Schoborg
   • Mariano Labrador

   OriginalPaper 19 December 2009 Pages: 74 - 84

   

8. Genes Acquired by Horizontal Transfer Are Potentially Involved in the Evolution of Phytopathogenicity in Moniliophthora perniciosa and Moniliophthora roreri, Two of the Major Pathogens of Cacao

   • Ricardo Augusto Tiburcio
   • Gustavo Gilson Lacerda Costa
   • Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira

   OriginalPaper 23 December 2009 Pages: 85 - 97

   

9. Hitchhiking and the Population Genetic Structure of Avian Influenza Virus

   • Rubing Chen
   • Edward C. Holmes

   OriginalPaper 30 December 2009 Pages: 98 - 105

   

10. Searching of Code Space for an Error-Minimized Genetic Code Via Codon Capture Leads to Failure, or Requires At Least 20 Improving Codon Reassignments Via the Ambiguous Intermediate Mechanism

    • Steven E. Massey

    OriginalPaper 28 January 2010 Pages: 106 - 115

    

11. Studying Patterns of Recent Evolution at Synonymous Sites and Intronic Sites in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Kai Zeng
    • Brian Charlesworth

    OriginalPaper 30 December 2009 Pages: 116 - 128