1. The Zuckerkandl Prize

   From the Editor Pages: 491 - 492

   

2. Functional Constraints of Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) of Tephritidae and Relationships with Other Dipteran Species

   • Elias Eliopoulos
   • George N. Goulielmos
   • Michael Loukas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 505

3. Phylogenetic Analysis of the Plant Endo-β-1,4-Glucanase Gene Family

   • Emanuele Libertini
   • Yi Li
   • Simon J. McQueen-Mason

   OriginalPaper Pages: 506 - 515

4. Cobra (Naja spp. ) Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Exhibits Resistance to Erabu Sea Snake (Laticauda semifasciata) Short-Chain α-Neurotoxin

   • Zoltan Takacs
   • Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
   • Steve Sorota

   OriginalPaper Pages: 516 - 526

5. The Consistent Phylogenetic Signal in Genome Trees Revealed by Reducing the Impact of Noise

   • Bas E. Dutilh
   • Martijn A. Huynen
   • Berend Snel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 539

6. Presence of a Bacterial-Like Citrate Synthase Gene in Tetrahymena thermophila: Recent Lateral Gene Transfers (LGT) or Multiple Gene Losses Subsequent to a Single Ancient LGT?

   • Atsushi Mukai
   • Hiroshi Endoh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 540 - 549

7. Polymorphic Insertions and Deletions in Parabasalian Enolase Genes

   • Patrick J. Keeling

   OriginalPaper Pages: 550 - 556

8. Structure Analysis of Two Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum Satellite DNA Families and Evolution of Their Common Monomeric Sequence

   • Marina Clemente
   • Natalia de Miguel
   • Sergio O. Angel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 567

9. Chinese Strains (Type 7) of JC Virus Are Afro-Asiatic in Origin But Are Phylogenetically Distinct from the Mongolian and Indian Strains (Type 2D) and the Korean and Japanese Strains (Type 2A)

   • Xiaohong Cui
   • Jian C. Wang
   • Gerald L. Stoner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 568 - 583

10. Abundance, Distribution, and Mutation Rates of Homopolymeric Nucleotide Runs in the Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans

    • Dee R. Denver
    • Krystalynne Morris
    • W. Kelley Thomas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 584 - 595

    

11. Ectopic Gene Conversions in Four Escherichia coli Genomes: Increased Recombination in Pathogenic Strains

    • Robert T. Morris
    • Guy Drouin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 596 - 605

    

12. Plastid Sequence Evolution: A New Pattern of Nucleotide Substitutions in the Cucurbitaceae

    • Deena S. Decker-Walters
    • Sang-Min Chung
    • Jack E. Staub

    OriginalPaper Pages: 606 - 614

    

13. Detection of Lateral Gene Transfer Events in the Prokaryotic tRNA Synthetases by the Ratios of Evolutionary Distances Method

    • Kamyar Farahi
    • Gordon D. Pusch
    • William B. Whitman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 615 - 631