1. Origin of fatty acid synthesis: Thermodynamics and kinetics of reaction pathways

   • Arthur L. Weber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 100

2. Pyrophosphate formation as the most efficient condensation reaction of activated nucleotides

   • Libaniel Rodriguez
   • Leslie E. Orgel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 104

3. Reconstruction and analysis of human alu genes

   • Jerzy Jurka
   • Aleksandar Milosavljevic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 121

4. Uniformity in the nonsynonymous substitution rates of embryonic β-globin genes of several vertebrate species

   • Steven G. Shapiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 122 - 127

5. Evolution of the cytochromeb gene of mammals

   • David M. Irwin
   • Thomas D. Kocher
   • Allan C. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 144

6. Evidence forCis- andTrans-acting element coevolution of the 2-μm circle genome inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Wei Xiao
   • Lawrence E. Pelcher
   • Gerald H. Rank

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 152

7. Nucleotide sequence and evolution of coding and noncoding regions of a quail mitochondrial genome

   • Paul Desjardins
   • Réjean Morais

   OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 161

8. An unusual Alu repeat sequence within the CAD gene

   • Jeffrey N. Davidson
   • Nada H. Khattar
   • Kuey-Chu Chen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 162 - 166

9. The evolutionary position of the rhodophytePorphyra umbilicalis and the basidiomyceteLeucosporidium scottii among other eukaryotes as deduced from complete sequences of small ribosomal subunit RNA

   • L. Hendriks
   • R. De Baere
   • R. De Wachter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 177

10. Codon swapping as a possible evolutionary mechanism

    • Eörs Szathmáry

    OriginalPaper Pages: 178 - 182

11. The evolution of plasmodial stage-specific rRNA genes is dominated by gene conversion

    • Vincenzo Enea
    • Vladimir Corredor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 186

12. cDNA and amino acid sequences of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) lysozymes and their implications for the evolution of lysozyme and lactalbumin

    • André Dautigny
    • Ellen M. Prager
    • Pierre Jollès

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 198