1. Point counter point

   • Thomas H. Jukes
   • Syozo Osawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 3

2. Response

   • Michael Yarns
   • Dennis W. Schultz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 6

3. Alu repeats and human evolution

   • Scott E. Stanley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 7

4. Response

   • Mark A. Batzer
   • Stephen T. Sherry
   • Mark Stoneking

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

5. Evidence for the early divergence of tryptophanyl- and tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases

   • James R. Brown
   • Frank T. Robb
   • W. Ford Doolittle

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

6. The major histocompatability complex (MHC) contains conserved polymorphic genomic sequences that are shuffled by recombination to form ethnic-specific haplotypes

   • Silvana Gaudieri
   • Chanvit Leelayuwat
   • Roger L. Dawkins

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 23

7. Genetic characterization of populations of a de novo arisen sugar beet pest, aubeonymus mariaefranciscae (coleoptera, curculionidae), by RAPD analysis

   • Ana Taberner
   • Joaquín Dopazo
   • Pedro Castañera

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 31

8. Molecular analysis of the intergenic region of the duplicated amy genes of drosophila melanogaster and drosophila teissieri

   • Eisaku Okuyama
   • Hidenori Tachida
   • Tsuneyuki Yamazaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 32 - 42

9. Genomic organization of the extracellular coding region of the human FGFR4 and FLT4 genes: Evolution of the genes encoding receptor tyrosine kinases with immunoglobulin-like domains

   • François Agnès
   • Marguerite-Marie Toux
   • Francis Galibert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 49

10. Analysis of donor splice sites in different eukaryotic organisms

    • Igor B. Rogozin
    • Luciano Milanesi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 59

11. Evidence for multiple functional copies of the male sex-determining locus, sry, in African murine rodents

    • Barbara L. Lundrigan
    • Priscilla K. Tucker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 60 - 65

12. Artiodactyl interspersed DNA repeats in cetacean genomes

    • J. B. Buntjer
    • I. A. Hoff
    • J. A. Lenstra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 66 - 69

13. Evolution of the mitochondrial DNA control region in the mbuna (Cichlidae) species flock of lake Malawi, East Africa

    • Alex Parker
    • Irv Kornfield

    OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 83

14. Complete large subunit ribosomal RNA sequences from the heterokont algae ochromonas danica, nannochloropsis salina, and tribonema aequale, and phylogenetic analysis

    • Gert Van der Auwera
    • Rupert De Wachter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 84 - 90

15. The Sperm Nuclear Basic Proteins (SNBPs) of the Sponge Neofibularia nolitangere: Implications for the Molecular Evolution of SNBPs

    • Juan Ausiö
    • Manfred L. J. Van Veghel
    • Daniel Barreda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 96

16. An Estimate of Divergence Time of Parazoa and Eumetazoa and That of Cephalochordata and Vertebrata by Aldolase and Triose Phosphate Isomerase Clocks

    • Naruo Nikoh
    • Naoyuki Iwabe
    • Takashi Miyata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 106

17. A Protein Related to Eucaryal and Bacterial DNA-Motor Proteins in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

    • Christiane Elie
    • Marie- France Baucher
    • Patrick Forterre

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 114