1. Intron Distribution in Ancient Paralogs Supports Random Insertion and Not Random Loss

   • Glen Cho
   • Russell F. Doolittle

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 573 - 584

2. engrailed Duplication Events During the Evolution of Barnacles

   • Jean-Michel Gibert
   • Emmanuèle Mouchel-Vielh
   • Jean S. Deutsch

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 585 - 594

3. Thyroid Hormone Receptor Genes of Neotenic Amphibians

   • Rachid Safi
   • Agnès Begue
   • Vincent Laudet

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 595 - 604

4. Nonplastid Eukaryotic Response Regulators Have a Monophyletic Origin and Evolved from Their Bacterial Precursors in Parallel with Their Cognate Sensor Kinases

   • Gerald M. Pao
   • Milton H. Saier, Jr.

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 605 - 613

5. Structural and Evolutionary Relationships Among Chitinases of Flowering Plants

   • Francine Hamel
   • Rodolphe Boivin
   • Guy Bellemare

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 614 - 624

6. On the Informational Content of Overlapping Genes in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Viruses

   • Angelo Pavesi
   • Bettina De Iaco
   • Alfredo Porati

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 625 - 631

7. Relationships Between Genomic G+C Content, RNA Secondary Structures, and Optimal Growth Temperature in Prokaryotes

   • Nicolas Galtier
   • J.R. Lobry

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 632 - 636

8. Origin and Inheritance of Group I Introns in 26S rRNA Genes of Gaeumannomyces graminis

   • M.K. Tan

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 637 - 645

9. Segmented Gene Conversion as a Mechanism of Correction of 18S rRNA Pseudogene Located Outside of rDNA Cluster in D. melanogaster

   • Elizaveta V. Benevolenskaya
   • Galina L. Kogan
   • Vladimir A. Gvozdev

   OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 646 - 651

10. Evolutionary Shifts in Three Major Structural Features of the Mitochondrial Genome Among Iguanian Lizards

    • J. Robert Macey
    • Allan Larson
    • Theodore J. Papenfuss

    OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 660 - 674

11. Coordinated Amino Acid Changes in the Evolution of Mammalian Defensins

    • Austin L. Hughes
    • Meredith Yeager

    OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 675 - 682

12. Unidentified Open Reading Frames in the Genome of Methanococcus jannaschii Are Similar in Sequence to an Archaebacterial Gene for tRNA Nucleotidyltransferase

    • David L. Thurlow
    • Gina M. Pulido
    • Kristen J. Millar

    OriginalPaper 01 June 1997 Pages: 686 - 689

13. Characterization of a Small Family (CAIII) of Microsatellite-Containing Sequences with X-Y Homology

    • Patrizia Malaspina
    • Bianca Maria Ciminelli
    • Andrea Novelletto

    Pages: 652 - 659