Selective Pressures on RNA Hairpins In Vivo and In Vitro Alexander P. GultyaevF.H.D. van BatenburgCornelis W.A. Pleij Pages: 1 - 8
SINE Retrotransposition During the Evolution of the Pecoran Ruminants Isaäc J. NijmanPatrick van TesselJohannes A. Lenstra Pages: 9 - 16
Classification and Phylogenetic Analysis of the cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase Regulatory Subunit Family Jaume M. CanavesSusan S. Taylor Pages: 17 - 29
The Evolutionary History of Prosaposin: Two Successive Tandem-Duplication Events Gave Rise to the Four Saposin Domains in Vertebrates Einat Hazkani-CovoNeta AltmanDan Graur Pages: 30 - 34
Correlations Between mRNA Expression Levels and GC Contents of Coding and Untranslated Regions of Genes in Rodents Özlen KonuMing D. Li Pages: 35 - 41
Maximum Likelihood Methods Reveal Conservation of Function Among Closely Related Kinesin Families Carolyn J. LawrenceRussell L. MalmbergR. Kelly Dawe Pages: 42 - 53
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 LawsonGodfrey M. Hewitt Pages: 54 - 61
Hepatitis C Virus Evolutionary Patterns Studied Through Analysis of Full-Genome Sequences Marco SalemiAnne-Mieke Vandamme Pages: 62 - 70
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 JankeOla MagnellUlfur Arnason Pages: 71 - 80
Ascidian and Amphioxus Adh Genes Correlate Functional and Molecular Features of the ADH Family Expansion During Vertebrate Evolution Cristian CañestroRicard AlbalatRoser Gonzàlez-Duarte Pages: 81 - 89
Origin and Evolution of Viral Interleukin-10 and Other DNA Virus Genes with Vertebrate Homologues Austin L. Hughes Pages: 90 - 101
Age and Detection of Retroprocessed Pseudogenes in Murine Rodents Felix FriedbergAllen R. Rhoads Pages: 102 - 106
Phylogenetic Relationships and Biochemical Properties of the Duplicated Cytosolic and Mitochondrial Isoforms of Malate Dehydrogenase from a Teleost Fish, Sphyraena idiastes Jen-Jen LinTzung-Horng YangGeorge N. Somero Pages: 107 - 117
Dynamic Insertion–Deletion of Introns in Deuterostome EF-1α Genes Hiroshi WadaMari KobayashiYoshihisa Shirayama Pages: 118 - 128
Expected Relationship Between the Silent Substitution Rate and the GC Content: Implications for the Evolution of Isochores Gwenaël PiganeauDominique MouchiroudChristian Gautier Pages: 129 - 133
Curiously Modern DNA for a ``250 Million-Year-Old'' Bacterium David C. NickleGerald H. LearnJohn E. Mittler Pages: 134 - 137
Testing Claims of Gene Conversion Between Multigene Family Members: Examples from Echinoderm Actin Genes Guy Drouin Pages: 138 - 139