Table of Contents:
  • Interpretation of diversity : homology testing and generation of phylogenetic trees. Molecular clocks are not as bad as you think / W.M. Fitch and F.J. Ayala
  • Reconstructing the history of evolutionary processes using maximum likelihood / Michael J. Sanderson
  • Introns, the broken transposons / Andrew J. Roger, Patrick J. Keeling, and W. Ford Doolittle
  • Monophyletic origin of animals : a shared ancestry with the fungi / Patricia O. Wainright, David J. Patterson, and Mitchell L. Sogin
  • To tree the truth : biological and numerical simulations of phylogeny / David M. Hillis and John P. Huelsenbeck
  • Genome organization and the generation of diversity. Transposable elements and the evolution of heterochromatin / Allan C. Spradling
  • Gene conversion and the evolution of gene families in mammals / John C. Schimenti
  • Functional polymorphism in class I major histocompatibility complex genes / Peter Parham
  • The generation of protein isoform diversity by alternative RNA splicing / David M. Helfman.
  • (Cont.) Evolution of the actin and myosin-related families of cytoskeletal proteins. Profilins, ancient actin binding proteins with highly divergent primary structures / Thomas D. Pollard and Stephen Quirk. The evolution of the chicken sarcomeric myosin heavy chain multigene family / Everett Bandman [and others]
  • Molecular evolution of the myosin superfamily : application of phylogenetic techniques to cell biological questions / Holly V. Goodson
  • Diversity of myosin-based motility : multiple genes and functions / Allison Weiss, D.C. Ghislaine Mayer, and Leslie A. Leinwand
  • The actin protein superfamily / Christine Fyrberg [and others]
  • Structure, function, evolution of plasma membrane proteins. Ion channels of microbes / Yoshiro Saimi [and others]
  • Using sequence homology to analyze the structure and function of voltage-gated ion channel proteins / H. Robert Guy and Stewart R. Durell
  • Molecular evolution of K+ channels in primitive eukaryotes / Timothy Jegla and Lawrence Salkoff
  • The connexins and their family tree / M.V.L. Bennett, X. Zheng, and M.L. Sogin.
  • (Cont.) Relationships of G-protein-coupled receptors. A survey with the photoreceptor opsin subfamily / Meredithe L. Applebury
  • Evolution of the G protein alpha subunit multigene family / Thomas M. Wilkie and Shozo Yokoyama
  • Molecular evolution of the calcium-transporting ATPases analyzed by the maximum parsimony method / Yan Song and Douglas Fambrough.