1. Reactive Phosphonic Acids as Prebiotic Carriers of Phosphorus

   • R.M. De Graaf
   • J. Visscher
   • Alan W. Schwartz

   Pages: 237 - 241

2. Experimental Indication in Favor of the Introns-Late Theory: The Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Gene from the Sponge Geodia cydonium

   • Vera Gamulin
   • Alexander Skorokhod
   • Werner E. G. Müller

   Pages: 242 - 252

3. Profile of Numbers of Sequence Differences Among V-Genes Coding for the Variable Regions of T Cell Receptor for Antigen Alpha and Beta Chains

   • George Johnson
   • Tai Te Wu

   Pages: 253 - 257

4. The Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Exhibits a Common Secondary Structure in Green Algae and Flowering Plants

   • Jeffrey C. Mai
   • Annette W. Coleman

   Pages: 258 - 271

5. Identification and Characterization of the Cecropin Antibacterial Protein Gene Locus in Drosophila virilis

   • Xiaojun Zhou
   • Thuy Nguyen
   • Deborah A. Kimbrell

   Pages: 272 - 281

6. Nucleotide Composition Bias Affects Amino Acid Content in Proteins Coded by Animal Mitochondria

   • Peter G. Foster
   • Lars S. Jermiin
   • Donal A. Hickey

   Pages: 282 - 288

7. Evolution of Chordate Actin Genes: Evidence from Genomic Organization and Amino Acid Sequences

   • Takehiro Kusakabe
   • Isato Araki
   • William R. Jeffery

   Pages: 289 - 298

8. Relatedness and Phylogeny Within the Family of Periplasmic Chaperones Involved in the Assembly of Pili or Capsule-Like Structures of Gram-Negative Bacteria

   • Alessandra Bonci
   • Alessandra Chiesurin
   • Gian Maria Rossolini

   Pages: 299 - 309

9. A Family of Differentially Amplified Repetitive DNA Sequences in the Genus Beta Reveals Genetic Variation in Beta vulgaris Subspecies and Cultivars

   • Sybille Kubis
   • John Seymour Heslop-Harrison
   • Thomas Schmidt

   Pages: 310 - 320

10. Complex Evolution of Tandem-Repetitive DNA in the Chironomus thummi Species Group

    • Ralf Ross
    • Thomas Hankeln
    • Erwin R. Schmidt

    Pages: 321 - 326

11. Higher-Order Organization of Subrepeats and the Evolution of Cervid Satellite I DNA

    • Charles Lee
    • Dean R. Court
    • Chyi-Chyang Lin

    Pages: 327 - 335

12. Microsatellite Allelic Homoplasy Due to Variable Flanking Sequences

    • Marie-Claude Grimaldi
    • Brigitte Crouau-Roy

    Pages: 336 - 340

13. Phylogenetic Affinity of Mitochondria of Euglena gracilis and Kinetoplastids Using Cytochrome Oxidase I and hsp60

    • Shinji Yasuhira
    • Larry Simpson

    Pages: 341 - 347

14. Function Switching as a Basis for Bursts of Rapid Change During the Evolution of Pituitary Growth Hormone

    • Michael Wallis

    Pages: 348 - 350