| Nucleotide sequence analysis of the human salivary protein genes HIS1 and HIS2, and evolution of the STATH/HIS gene family | LM Sabatini, T Ota, EA Azen | 497 |
| Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees | K Tamura, M Nei | 512 |
| Paralogous origin of the red- and green-sensitive visual pigment genes in vertebrates | S Yokoyama, WT Starmer, R Yokoyama | 527 |
| Motifs of cadherin- and fibronectin type III-related sequences and evolution of the receptor-type-protein tyrosine kinases: sequence similarity between proto-oncogene ret and cadherin family | K Kuma, N Iwabe, T Miyata | 539 |
| L1 A-monomer tandem arrays have expanded during the course of mouse L1 evolution | SA Schichman, NB Adey, MH Edgell, CA Hutchison | 552 |
| Analysis of relatedness in the California condors, from DNA fingerprints | CJ Geyer, OA Ryder, LG Chemnick, EA Thompson | 571 |
| Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms in subterranean mole-rats of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel, and its peripheral isolates | E Nevo, RL Honeycutt, H Yonekawa, K Nelson, N Hanzawa | 590 |
| Evolution of the Adh locus in the Drosophila willistoni group: the loss of an intron, and shift in codon usage | CL Anderson, EA Carew, JR Powell | 605 |
| Relationships in the Drosophila obscura species group, inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II sequences | AT Beckenbach, YW Wei, H Liu | 619 |
| An intraspecific gene duplication polymorphism of the urate oxidase gene of Drosophila virilis: a genetic and molecular analysis | S Lootens, J Burnett, TB Friedman | 635 |
| Gradual evolution of a specific satellite DNA family in Drosophila ambigua, D. tristis, and D. obscura | L Bachmann, D Sperlich | 647 |
| The phylogenetic affinities of the chaetognaths: a molecular analysis | MJ Telford, PW Holland | 660 |
| Unbiased estimation of evolutionary distance between nucleotide sequences | F Tajima | 677 |
| Isolation and molecular phylogenetic analysis of actin-coding regions from Emiliania huxleyi, a Prymnesiophyte alga, by reverse transcriptase and PCR methods | D Bhattacharya, SK Stickel, ML Sogin | 689 |
| Possible evolutionary relationship between mammalian alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase 1 and the 42-kD subunit of cyanobacterial soluble hydrogenase | PA de Zoysa, CJ Danpure | 704 |
| The triangle inequality and character analysis | WC Wheeler | 707 |
| Commentary on the letter from Ward C. Wheeler | WM Fitch | 713 |
| Book received | | 715 |
| Announcement: First annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution | | 716 |
