1. Codons AGA and AGG are read as glycine in ascidian mitochondria

   • Shin-ichi Yokobori
   • Takuya Ueda
   • Kimitsuna Watanabe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

2. The evolution of long interspersed repeated DNA (L1, LINE 1) as revealed by the analysis of an ancient rodent L1 DNA family

   • Esterina Pascale
   • Christine Liu
   • Anthony V. Furano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 20

3. The evolutionary relationship of avian and mammalian myosin heavy-chain genes

   • Laurie A. Moore
   • William E. Tidyman
   • Everett Bandman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 30

4. Region-specific rates of molecular evolution: A fourfold reduction in the rate of accumulation of “Silent” mutations in transcribed versus nontranscribed regions of homologous DNA fragments derived from two closely related mouse species

   • Mitchell S. Turker
   • Gregory E. Cooper
   • Peggy L. Bishop

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 40

5. Evolution of protein complexity: The blue copper-containing oxidases and related proteins

   • Lars G. Rydén
   • Lois T. Hunt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 66

6. Phyletic relationships of protein structures based on spatial preference of residues

   • Chun-xu Qu
   • Lu-hua Lai
   • You-qi Tang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 78

7. The evolution of proteins from random amino acid sequences. I. Evidence from the lengthwise distribution of amino acids in modern protein sequences

   • Stephen H. White
   • Russell E. Jacobs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 95

8. Unbiased estimation of the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution

   • Wen-Hsiung Li

   Letter To The Editor Pages: 96 - 99