1. Collagen’s Triglycine Repeat Number and Phylogeny Suggest an Interdomain Transfer Event from a Devonian or Silurian Organism into Trichodesmium erythraeum

   • Bradley E. Layton
   • Adam J. D’Souza
   • Jesula Jean-Charles

   OriginalPaper Open access 03 June 2008 Pages: 539 - 554

   

2. Complete Sequence of the Duckweed (Lemna minor) Chloroplast Genome: Structural Organization and Phylogenetic Relationships to Other Angiosperms

   • Andrey V. Mardanov
   • Nikolai V. Ravin
   • Konstantin G. Skyabin

   OriginalPaper 08 May 2008 Pages: 555 - 564

   

3. Mathematical Modelling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis VNTR Loci Estimates a Very Slow Mutation Rate for the Repeats

   • Andrew Grant
   • Catherine Arnold
   • Anthony Underwood

   OriginalPaper 06 May 2008 Pages: 565 - 574

   

4. Heterogeneous Nature and Distribution of Interruptions in Dinucleotides May Indicate the Existence of Biased Substitutions Underlying Microsatellite Evolution

   • Miguel A. Varela
   • Roberto Sanmiguel
   • Andres Martinez-Lage

   OriginalPaper 22 May 2008 Pages: 575 - 580

   

5. Polymorphism and Divergence at Three Duplicate Genes in Brassica nigra

   • Per Sjödin
   • Harald Hedman
   • Martin Lascoux

   OriginalPaper 10 May 2008 Pages: 581 - 590

   

6. Different Evolutionary Strategies for the Origin of Caspase-1 Inhibitors

   • Júlia P. C. da Cunha
   • Pedro A. F. Galante
   • Sandro J. de Souza

   OriginalPaper 14 May 2008 Pages: 591 - 597

   

7. Positive Selection on HIV Accessory Proteins and the Analysis of Molecular Adaptation After Interspecies Transmission

   • André E. R. Soares
   • Marcelo A. Soares
   • Carlos G. Schrago

   OriginalPaper 09 May 2008 Pages: 598 - 604

8. The Evolution of Alternative Splicing in the Pax Family: The View from the Basal Chordate Amphioxus

   • Stephen Short
   • Linda Z. Holland

   OriginalPaper 14 May 2008 Pages: 605 - 620

   

9. Tracing Plant Mitochondrial DNA Evolution: Rearrangements of the Ancient Mitochondrial Gene Cluster trnA-trnT-nad7 in Liverwort Phylogeny

   • Ute Wahrmund
   • Milena Groth-Malonek
   • Volker Knoop

   OriginalPaper 17 May 2008 Pages: 621 - 629

   

10. Is 16S rDNA a Reliable Phylogenetic Marker to Characterize Relationships Below the Family Level in the Enterobacteriaceae?

    • Marianna Naum
    • Eric W. Brown
    • Roberta J. Mason-Gamer

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 630 - 642

    

11. The Association Between Breeding System and Transposable Element Dynamics in Daphnia Pulex

    • Pegah Valizadeh
    • Teresa J. Crease

    OriginalPaper 20 May 2008 Pages: 643 - 654

    

12. The Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Influenza B Virus

    • Rubing Chen
    • Edward C. Holmes

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2008 Pages: 655 - 663