1. Selective Pressures on RNA Hairpins In Vivo and In Vitro

   • Alexander P. Gultyaev
   • F.H.D. van Batenburg
   • Cornelis W.A. Pleij

   Pages: 1 - 8

2. SINE Retrotransposition During the Evolution of the Pecoran Ruminants

   • Isaäc J. Nijman
   • Patrick van Tessel
   • Johannes A. Lenstra

   Pages: 9 - 16

3. Classification and Phylogenetic Analysis of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Regulatory Subunit Family

   • Jaume M. Canaves
   • Susan S. Taylor

   Pages: 17 - 29

4. The Evolutionary History of Prosaposin: Two Successive Tandem-Duplication Events Gave Rise to the Four Saposin Domains in Vertebrates

   • Einat Hazkani-Covo
   • Neta Altman
   • Dan Graur

   Pages: 30 - 34

5. Correlations Between mRNA Expression Levels and GC Contents of Coding and Untranslated Regions of Genes in Rodents

   • Özlen Konu
   • Ming D. Li

   Pages: 35 - 41

6. Maximum Likelihood Methods Reveal Conservation of Function Among Closely Related Kinesin Families

   • Carolyn J. Lawrence
   • Russell L. Malmberg
   • R. Kelly Dawe

   Pages: 42 - 53

7. Comparison of Substitution Rates in ZFX and ZFY Introns of Sheep and Goat Related Species Supports the Hypothesis of Male-Biased Mutation Rates

   • Lori-Jayne Lawson
   • Godfrey M. Hewitt

   Pages: 54 - 61

8. Hepatitis C Virus Evolutionary Patterns Studied Through Analysis of Full-Genome Sequences

   • Marco Salemi
   • Anne-Mieke Vandamme

   Pages: 62 - 70

9. Phylogenetic Analysis of 18S rRNA and the Mitochondrial Genomes of the Wombat, Vombatus ursinus, and the Spiny Anteater, Tachyglossus aculeatus: Increased Support for the Marsupionta Hypothesis

   • Axel Janke
   • Ola Magnell
   • Ulfur Arnason

   Pages: 71 - 80

10. Ascidian and Amphioxus Adh Genes Correlate Functional and Molecular Features of the ADH Family Expansion During Vertebrate Evolution

    • Cristian Cañestro
    • Ricard Albalat
    • Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte

    Pages: 81 - 89

11. Origin and Evolution of Viral Interleukin-10 and Other DNA Virus Genes with Vertebrate Homologues

    • Austin L. Hughes

    Pages: 90 - 101

12. Age and Detection of Retroprocessed Pseudogenes in Murine Rodents

    • Felix Friedberg
    • Allen R. Rhoads

    Pages: 102 - 106

13. Phylogenetic Relationships and Biochemical Properties of the Duplicated Cytosolic and Mitochondrial Isoforms of Malate Dehydrogenase from a Teleost Fish, Sphyraena idiastes

    • Jen-Jen Lin
    • Tzung-Horng Yang
    • George N. Somero

    Pages: 107 - 117

14. Dynamic Insertion–Deletion of Introns in Deuterostome EF-1α Genes

    • Hiroshi Wada
    • Mari Kobayashi
    • Yoshihisa Shirayama

    Pages: 118 - 128

15. Expected Relationship Between the Silent Substitution Rate and the GC Content: Implications for the Evolution of Isochores

    • Gwenaël Piganeau
    • Dominique Mouchiroud
    • Christian Gautier

    Pages: 129 - 133

16. Curiously Modern DNA for a ``250 Million-Year-Old'' Bacterium

    • David C. Nickle
    • Gerald H. Learn
    • John E. Mittler

    Pages: 134 - 137

17. Testing Claims of Gene Conversion Between Multigene Family Members: Examples from Echinoderm Actin Genes

    • Guy Drouin

    Pages: 138 - 139