1. The amphioxus genome sequence illuminates the evolutionary origin of vertebrates

   • Jeremy J. Gibson-Brown
   • Volker Hartenstein

   Editorial 24 October 2008 Pages: 575 - 578

2. Comprehensive survey and classification of homeobox genes in the genome of amphioxus, Branchiostoma floridae

   • Naohito Takatori
   • Thomas Butts
   • Peter W. H. Holland

   Original Article 17 September 2008 Pages: 579 - 590

   

3. Unexpectedly large number of conserved noncoding regions within the ancestral chordate Hox cluster

   • Juan Pascual-Anaya
   • Salvatore D’Aniello
   • Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez

   Original Article 13 September 2008 Pages: 591 - 597

   

4. Expression of somite segmentation genes in amphioxus: a clock without a wavefront?

   • Laura Beaster-Jones
   • Stacy L. Kaltenbach
   • Linda Z. Holland

   Original Article 21 October 2008 Pages: 599 - 611

   

5. Conservation of linkage and evolution of developmental function within the Tbx2/3/4/5 subfamily of T-box genes: implications for the origin of vertebrate limbs

   • Amy C. Horton
   • Navin R. Mahadevan
   • Jeremy J. Gibson-Brown

   Original Article 25 September 2008 Pages: 613 - 628

   

6. The Fox genes of Branchiostoma floridae

   • Jr-Kai Yu
   • Francoise Mazet
   • Sebastian M. Shimeld

   Original Article 05 September 2008 Pages: 629 - 638

   

7. C2H2 zinc finger genes of the Gli, Zic, KLF, SP, Wilms’ tumour, Huckebein, Snail, Ovo, Spalt, Odd, Blimp-1, Fez and related gene families from Branchiostoma floridae

   • Sebastian M. Shimeld

   Original Article 16 September 2008 Pages: 639 - 649

   

8. Nuclear hormone receptor signaling in amphioxus

   • Michael Schubert
   • Frédéric Brunet
   • Vincent Laudet

   Original Article 25 September 2008 Pages: 651 - 665

   

9. The amphioxus genome enlightens the evolution of the thyroid hormone signaling pathway

   • Mathilde Paris
   • Frédéric Brunet
   • Vincent Laudet

   Original Article 07 November 2008 Pages: 667 - 680

   

10. Characterization of AGAT, GAMT and CT1 in amphioxus: implications for the evolutionary conservation of creatine metabolism related molecules at the invertebrate-to-vertebrate transition

    • Lifeng Wang
    • Dongyan Chen
    • Hongwei Zhang

    Original Article 05 September 2008 Pages: 681 - 689

    

11. Evolution of DNA-methylation machinery: DNA methyltransferases and methyl-DNA binding proteins in the amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae

    • Ricard Albalat

    Original Article 24 September 2008 Pages: 691 - 701

    

12. Evidence for stasis and not genetic piracy in developmental expression patterns of Branchiostoma lanceolatum and Branchiostoma floridae, two amphioxus species that have evolved independently over the course of 200 Myr

    • Ildiko Somorjai
    • Stéphanie Bertrand
    • Hector Escriva

    Original Article 09 October 2008 Pages: 703 - 713

    

13. Regulatory genes in the ancestral chordate genomes

    • Yutaka Satou
    • Shuichi Wada
    • Nori Satoh

    Short Communication Open access 05 September 2008 Pages: 715 - 721

    

14. A cDNA resource for the cephalochordate amphioxus Branchiostoma floridae

    • Jr-Kai Yu
    • Ming-Chih Wang
    • Yutaka Satou

    Technical Note 05 September 2008 Pages: 723 - 727

15. Referees 2008

    Acknowledgement to Referees 27 November 2008 Pages: 729 - 730