1. Editorial

   • Giorgio Bernardi
   • Takashi Gojobori
   • Martin Kreitman

   EditorialNotes 03 February 2014 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Intron Length and Codon Usage

   • Alexander E. Vinogradov

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 2 - 5

3. Diversification of the Microtubule System in the Early Stage of Eukaryote Evolution: Elongation Factor 1α and α-Tubulin Protein Phylogeny of Termite Symbiotic Oxymonad and Hypermastigote Protists

   • Shigeharu Moriya
   • Kentaro Tanaka
   • Toshiaki Kudo

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 6 - 16

4. Detecting Changes in the Functional Constraints of Paralogous Genes

   • Ignacio Marín
   • Mario Alí Fares
   • Andrés Moya

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 17 - 28

5. Characterization of Two Alcohol Dehydrogenase (Adh) Loci from the Olive Fruit Fly, Bactrocera (Dacus) oleae and Implications for Adh Duplication in Dipteran Insects

   • George N. Goulielmos
   • Nickolaos Cosmidis
   • Eleftherios Zouros

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 29 - 39

6. The Rates of Molecular Evolution in Rodent and Primate Mitochondrial DNA

   • Daniel M. Weinreich

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 40 - 50

7. The Evolution of Modern Lineages of Mouse L1 Elements

   • Michael L. Mears
   • Clyde A. Hutchison III

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 51 - 62

8. Evolution of the Integrin α and β Protein Families

   • Austin L. Hughes

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 63 - 72

9. The Nicotinamide Biosynthetic Pathway Is a By-Product of the RNA World

   • H. James Cleaves
   • Stanley L. Miller

   OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 73 - 77

10. Identification of Four Families of Peptidoglycan Lytic Transglycosylases

    • Neil T. Blackburn
    • Anthony J. Clarke

    OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 78 - 84

11. Genetic Affinities Within the Herring Gull Larus argentatus Assemblage Revealed by AFLP Genotyping

    • Peter de Knijff
    • Frank Denkers
    • Martin Kuiper

    OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 85 - 93

12. Allelic Diversity at the het-c Locus in Neurospora tetrasperma Confirms Outcrossing in Nature and Reveals an Evolutionary Dilemma for Pseudohomothallic Ascomycetes

    • Amy J. Powell
    • David J. Jacobson
    • Donald O. Natvig

    OriginalPaper 03 February 2014 Pages: 94 - 102