1. Addition of wsp Sequences to the Wolbachia Phylogenetic Tree and Stability of the Classification

   • Bernard Pintureau
   • Sophie Chaudier
   • Simon Grenier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 374 - 377

2. Gene Conversion Drives Within Genic Sequences: Concerted Evolution of Ribosomal RNA Genes in Bacteria and Archaea

   • Daiqing Liao

   Pages: 305 - 317

3. Monophyletic Origin of the Order Chiroptera and Its Phylogenetic Position Among Mammalia, as Inferred from the Complete Sequence of the Mitochondrial DNA of a Japanese Megabat, the Ryukyu Flying Fox (Pteropus dasymallus)

   • Masato Nikaido
   • Masashi Harada
   • Norihiro Okada

   Pages: 318 - 328

4. Dynamic Rearrangement Within the Antheraea pernyi Silk Fibroin Gene Is Associated with Four Types of Repetitive Units

   • Hideki Sezutsu
   • Kenji Yukuhiro

   Pages: 329 - 338

5. Multiple Lineages of the Mitochondrial Gene NADH Dehydrogenase Subunit 1 (ND1) in Parasitic Helminths: Implications for Molecular Evolutionary Studies of Facultatively Anaerobic Eukaryotes

   • Lynne van Herwerden
   • David Blair
   • Takeshi Agatsuma

   Pages: 339 - 352

6. Are Noncoding Sequences of Rickettsia prowazekii Remnants of ``Neutralized'' Genes?

   • Dirk Holste
   • Olaf Weiss
   • Hanspeter Herzel

   Pages: 353 - 362

7. Biglycan-Like Extracellular Matrix Genes of Agnathans and Teleosts

   • Seikou Shintani
   • Akie Sato
   • Jan Klein

   Pages: 363 - 373

8. The Comparison of β-Thymosin Homologues Among Metazoa Supports an Arthropod-Nematode Clade

   • Michaël Manuel
   • Michael Kruse
   • Yannick Le Parco

   Pages: 378 - 381

9. The Structure and Gene Repertoire of an Ancient Red Algal Plastid Genome

   • Gernot Glöckner
   • André Rosenthal
   • Klaus Valentin

   Pages: 382 - 390

10. Molecular Characterization and Evolution of the Amylase Multigene Family of Drosophila ananassae

    • Jean-Luc Da Lage
    • Frédérique Maczkowiak
    • Marie-Louise Cariou

    Pages: 391 - 403

11. Mitochondrial DNA of Hydra attenuata (Cnidaria): A Sequence That Includes an End of One Linear Molecule and the Genes for l-rRNA, tRNA^f-Met, tRNA^Trp, COII, and ATPase8

    • Genevieve Pont-Kingdon
    • Cecile G. Vassort
    • David R. Wolstenholme

    Pages: 404 - 415

12. RNA Folding Argues Against a Hot-Start Origin of Life

    • Vincent Moulton
    • Paul P. Gardner
    • David Penny

    Pages: 416 - 421