1. Molecular Evolution of the GapC Gene Family in Amsinckia spectabilis Populations That Differ in Outcrossing Rate

   • Joëlle R. Pérusse
   • Daniel J. Schoen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 436

   

2. Serpins in Unicellular Eukarya, Archaea, and Bacteria: Sequence Analysis and Evolution

   • Thomas H. Roberts
   • Jørn Hejgaard
   • Paul M. G. Curmi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 437 - 447

   

3. Hypervariable and Highly Divergent Intron–Exon Organizations in the Chordate Oikopleura dioica

   • Rolf B. Edvardsen
   • Emmanuelle Lerat
   • Daniel Chourrout

   OriginalPaper Pages: 448 - 457

   

4. A New Family of “H3L-Like” Histone Genes

   • P. Mancini
   • G. Pulcrano
   • L. Fucci

   OriginalPaper Pages: 458 - 463

   

5. Comparative Analysis of the Complete Plastid Genome Sequence of the Red Alga Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. liui Provides Insights into the Evolution of Rhodoplasts and Their Relationship to Other Plastids

   • Jonathan C. Hagopian
   • Marcelo Reis
   • Mariana C. de Oliveira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 464 - 477

   

6. Ancestral Population Sizes and Species Divergence Times in the Primate Lineage on the Basis of Intron and BAC End Sequences

   • Yoko Satta
   • Michael Hickerson
   • Jan Klein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 478 - 487

   

7. Expression Patterns of Murine Antichymotrypsin-like Genes Reflect Evolutionary Divergence at the Serpina3 Locus

   • Anita J. Horvath
   • Sharon L. Forsyth
   • Paul B. Coughlin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 488 - 497

   

8. Molecular Evolution of Daphnia Immunity Genes: Polymorphism in a Gram-Negative Binding Protein Gene and an α-2-Macroglobulin Gene

   • Tom J. Little
   • John K. Colbourne
   • Teresa J. Crease

   OriginalPaper Pages: 498 - 506

   

9. Recombination in Primeval Genomes: A Step Forward but Still a Long Leap from Maintaining a Sizable Genome

   • Mauro Santos
   • Elias Zintzaras
   • Eörs Szathmáry

   OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 519

   

10. Overlapping Messages and Survivability

    • Ofer Peleg
    • Valery Kirzhner
    • Alexander Bolshoy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 520 - 527

    

11. The Evolution of Amino Acid Repeat Arrays in Plasmodium and Other Organisms

    • Austin L. Hughes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 528 - 535

    

12. cDNA Sequence, Protein Structure, and Evolution of the Single Hemocyanin from Aplysia californica, an Opisthobranch Gastropod

    • Bernhard Lieb
    • Valesca Boisguérin
    • Jürgen Markl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 536 - 545

    

13. Evolution of the Regular Zone of Histone H1 in Fabaceae Plants

    • Yuri Trusov
    • Vera S. Bogdanova
    • Vladimir A. Berdnikov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 546 - 555

    

14. Estimation of the Extent of Synteny Between Tetraodon nigroviridis and Homo sapiens Genomes

    • Alain Bernot
    • Jean Weissenbach

    OriginalPaper Pages: 556 - 569