1. Random walking

   • Thomas H. Jukes

   BriefCommunication Pages: 1 - 2

2. Functional elements and domains inferred from sequence comparisons of a heat shock gene in two nematodes

   • Mark F. P. Heschl
   • David L. Baillie

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 9

3. A population genetic model of selection that maintains specific trinucleotides at a specific location

   • Hidenori Tachida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 10 - 17

4. Higher plant origins and the phylogeny of green algae

   • Richard Devereux
   • Alfred R. Loeblich III
   • George E. Fox

   OriginalPaper Pages: 18 - 24

5. Secondary structural elements exclusive to the sequences flanking ribosomal RNAs lend support to the monophyletic nature of the archaebacteria

   • Jørgen Kjems
   • Roger A. Garrett

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 32

6. Extreme differences in charge changes during protein evolution

   • Jack A. M. Leunissen
   • Henno W. van den Hooven
   • Wilfried W. de Jong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 39

7. A new member of a secretory protein gene family in the dipteranChironomus tentans has a variant repeat structure

   • Joakim Galli
   • Urban Lendahl
   • Lars Wieslander

   OriginalPaper Pages: 40 - 50

8. Compositional statistics: An improvement of evolutionary parsimony and its application to deep branches in the tree of life

   • Arend Sidow
   • Allan C. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 68