1. Forthcoming papers

   Legacy Pages: iii - iii

2. A hydrothermally precipitated catalytic iron sulphide membrane as a first step toward life

   • Michael J. Russell
   • Roy M. Daniel
   • John A. Sherringham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 243

3. Evolution of chorion gene families in Lepidoptera: Characterization of 15 cDNAs from the gypsy moth

   • Robert F. Leclerc
   • Jerome C. Regier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 244 - 254

4. Molecular evolution of interleukin-3

   • Herman Burger
   • Gerard Wagemaker
   • Lambert C. J. Dorssers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 267

5. Multiple origins of the green-sensitive opsin genes in fish

   • Elizabeth A. Register
   • Ruth Yokoyama
   • Shozo Yokoyama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 268 - 273

6. Characterization of a species-specific satellite DNA family of Dolichopoda schiavazzii (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae) cave crickets

   • Lutz Bachmann
   • Federica Venanzetti
   • Valerio Sbordoni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 274 - 281

7. On the evolution of protamines in bony Fish: Alternatives to the “Retroviral horizontal transmission” hypothesis

   • Núria Saperas
   • Juan Ausio
   • Manel Chiva

   OriginalPaper Pages: 282 - 295

8. Phylogenetic reconstruction of South American felids defined by protein electrophoresis

   • J. Pecon Slattery
   • W.E. Johnson
   • S.J. O'Brien

   OriginalPaper Pages: 296 - 305

9. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods

   • Ziheng Yang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 306 - 314

10. Estimation of evolutionary distances between nucleotide sequences

    • Andrey Zharkikh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 315 - 329