1. Type II Opsins: Evolutionary Origin by Internal Domain Duplication?

   • Nicholas D. Larusso
   • Brian E. Ruttenberg
   • Todd H. Oakley

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2008 Pages: 417 - 423

   

2. Selection on Length Mutations After Frameshift Can Explain the Origin and Retention of the AP3/DEF-Like Paralogues in Impatiens

   • Steven B. Janssens
   • Tom Viaene
   • Koen P. Geuten

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2008 Pages: 424 - 435

   

3. Evidence of Gene Conversion in the Evolutionary Process of the Codon 41/42 (-CTTT) Mutation Causing β-Thalassemia in Southern China

   • Wen Zhang
   • Wang-Wei Cai
   • Xiang-Min Xu

   OriginalPaper 15 April 2008 Pages: 436 - 445

   

4. Rapid Evolution by Positive Darwinian Selection in T-Cell Antigen CD4 in Primates

   • Zhengdong D. Zhang
   • George Weinstock
   • Mark Gerstein

   OriginalPaper 15 April 2008 Pages: 446 - 456

   

5. Expression Pattern Diversity and Functional Conservation Between Retroposed PRAT Genes from Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis

   • Jay Penney
   • Jessica Bossé
   • Denise V. Clark

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2008 Pages: 457 - 471

   

6. Phylogenetic and Structural Analysis of Translationally Controlled Tumor Proteins

   • Jesús Hinojosa-Moya
   • Beatriz Xoconostle-Cázares
   • Roberto Ruiz-Medrano

   OriginalPaper 08 April 2008 Pages: 472 - 483

   

7. An Extensive Study of Mutation and Selection on the Wobble Nucleotide in tRNA Anticodons in Fungal Mitochondrial Genomes

   • Malisa Carullo
   • Xuhua Xia

   OriginalPaper 10 April 2008 Pages: 484 - 493

   

8. Rethinking Proteasome Evolution: Two Novel Bacterial Proteasomes

   • Ruben E. Valas
   • Philip E. Bourne

   OriginalPaper Open access 04 April 2008 Pages: 494 - 504

   

9. Early Evolution of Histone Genes: Prevalence of an ‘Orphon’ H1 Lineage in Protostomes and Birth-and-Death Process in the H2A Family

   • Rodrigo González-Romero
   • Juan Ausió
   • José M. Eirín-López

   OriginalPaper 29 April 2008 Pages: 505 - 518

   

10. On the Physical Basis of the Amino Acid Polar Requirement

    • Damien C. Mathew
    • Zaida Luthey-Schulten

    OriginalPaper 29 April 2008 Pages: 519 - 528

    

11. Detection of the Genes Evolving Under Ureaplasma-Specific Selection

    • Kenro Oshima
    • Hiromi Nishida

    Letter to the Editor 15 April 2008 Pages: 529 - 532

12. Ancient DNA Clarifies the Evolutionary History of American Late Pleistocene Equids

    • Ludovic Orlando
    • Dean Male
    • Catherine Hänni

    OriginalPaper 09 April 2008 Pages: 533 - 538