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Journal of Molecular Evolution Volume 33 (1991) Editor in Chief E. Zuckerkandl, Palo Alto, CA, USA Associate Editors United States Europe C. R. Cantor, Berkeley, CA A. J. Jeffreys, Leicester, England W. F. Doolittle, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada G. Bernardi, Paris, France A. Efstratiadis, New York, NY G. E. Fox, Houston, TX Asia T. H. Jukes, Oakland, CA M. Kimura, Mishima, Japan F. Kafatos, Cambridge, MA L. H. Kedes, Los Angeles, CA B. W. Matthews, Eugene, OR J. Ord, Houston, TX C. R. Woese, Urbana, IL Editorial Board J. C. Avise, Athens, GA E. C. C. Lin, Boston, MA, USA F. Ayala, Irvine, CA, USA W. H. Li, Houston, TX, USA B. E. Blaisdell, Palo Alto, CA, USA J. Maynard-Smith, Brighton, England R. J. Britten, Corona Del Mar, CA, USA B. McCarthy, San Francisco, CA, USA W. M. Brown, Ann Arbor, MI, USA R. Milkman, lowa City, IA, USA M. Nei, Houston, TX, USA S. Nishimura, Tokyo, Japan T. Ohta, Mishima, Japan L. Orgel, San Diego, CA, USA . M. Fitch, Los Angeles, CA, USA S. Osawa, Nagoya, Japan . Goodman, Detroit, MI, USA L. Pauling, Palo Alto, CA, USA . W. Gray, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada A. Rich, Cambridge, MA, USA . G. Hall, Storrs, CT, USA Ch. Sadron, Orléans, France . Holmquist, Richmond, CA, USA C. W. Schmid, Davis, CA, USA L. Hood, Pasadena, CA, USA C. G. Sibley, Tiburon, CA, USA L. T. Hunt, Washington, DC, USA G. Spicer, Palo Alto, CA, USA J. Jurka, Palo Alto, CA, USA H. White, Newark, DE, USA A. Lazcano, Mexico D.F., Mexico G. S. Whitt, Urbana, IL, USA R. C. Lewontin, Cambridge, MA, USA Springer International The exclusive copyright for all languages and countries, including the right for photome- chanical and any other reproductions, also in microform, is transferred to the publisher. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed in the United States by Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas © 1991 by Springer International Contents of Volume 33 (1991) No. 1, July 1991 No. 2, August 1991 Genome Structure and Evolution Random Walking 103 Special Issue Edited by Giorgio Bernardi A. Salam The Role of Chirality in the Origin of Random Walking 1 Life 105 G. Bernardi J. L. Thorne, H. Kishino, J. Felsenstein Genome Structure and Evolution: An Evolutionary Model for Maximum Foreword 3 Likelihood Alignment of DNA Sequences 114 W. Arber Elements in Microbial Evolution 4 P. Deschavanne, M. Radman Counterselection of GATC Sequences in E. Cowe, P. M. Sharp Enterobacteriophages by the Components Molecular Evolution of Bacteriophages: of the Methyl-Directed Mismatch Repair Discrete Patterns of Codon Usage in T4 System 125 Genes are Related to the Time of Gene Expression 13 E. C. Whisenant, B. K. A. Rasheed, H. Ostrer, Y. M. Bhatnagar P. M. Sharp Evolution and Sequence Analysis of a Determinants of DNA Sequence Divergence Human Y-Chromosomal DNA between Escherichia coli and Salmonella Fragment 133 typhimurium: Codon Usage, Map Position, and Concerted Evolution 23 O. Tiboni, R. Cantoni, R. Creti, P. Cammarano, A. M. Sanangelantoni T. Ohta Phylogenetic Depth of Thermotoga maritima Multigene Families and the Evolution of Inferred from Analysis of the fus Gene: Complexity 34 Amino Acid Sequence of Elongation Factor G and Organization of the Thermotoga str B. Marcais, J. P. Charlieu, B. Allain, Operon 142 E. Brun, M. Bellis, G. Roizés On the Mode of Evolution of Alpha Satellite D. J. Stanton, T. J. Crease, P. D. N. Hebert DNA in Human Populations 42 Cloning and Characterization of Daphnia Mitochondrial DNA 152 J. Jurka, E. Zukerkandl Free Left Arms as Precursor Molecules in L. Nigro, M. Solignac, P. M. Sharp the Evolution of Alu Sequences 49 Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Divergence in the Melanogaster and Oriental Species G. Bernardi, G. Bernardi Subgroups of Drosophila 156 Compositional Properties of Nuclear Genes from Cold-Blooded Vertebrates 57 S. J. Greenwood, M. L. Sogin, D. H. Lynn Phylogenetic Relationships within the Class E. Olmo Oligohymenophorea, Phylum Ciliophora, Genome Variations in the Transition from Inferred from the Complete Small Subunit Amphibians to Reptiles 68 rRNA Gene Sequences of Colpidium V. Stingo, L. Rocco campylum, Glaucoma chattoni, and Chondrichthyan Cytogenetics: A Opisthonecta henneguyi 163 Comparison with Teleosteans 76 M. Gniadkowski, J. Fiett, P. Borsuk, C. Saccone, G. Pesole, E. Sbisa D. Hoffman-Zacharska, P. P. Stepien, E. The Main Regulatory Region of Mammalian Bartnik Mitochondrial DNA: Structure—Function Structure and Evolution of 5S rRNA Genes Model and Evolutionary Pattern 83 and Pseudogenes in the Genus Aspergillus 175 C. Biju-Duval, E. Ennafaa, N. Dennebouy, M. Monnerot, F. Mignotte, R. C. Soriguer, A. Reizer, G. M. Pao, M. H. Saier, Jr. A. E. Gaaied, A. E. Hili, J.-C. Mounolou Evolutionary Relationships among the Mitochondrial DNA Evolution in Permease Proteins of the Bacterial Lagomorphs: Origin of Systematic Phosphoenolpyruvate: Sugar Heteroplasmy and Organization of Diversity Phosphotransferase System. Construction of Phylogenetic Trees and Possible in European Rabbits 92 Relatedness to Proteins of Eukaryotic Instructions to Authors on page iv Mitochondria 179 Indexed in Current Contents L. Rat, M. Veuille, J.-A. Lepesant Drosophila Fat Body Protein P6 and Alcohol Dehydrogenase are Derived from a Common Ancestral Protein 194 Erratum 204 Indexed in Current Contents 572 No. 3, September 1991 No. 4, October 1991 T. H. Jukes, E. Zukerkandl D. H. Deutsch Remembering Allan Wilson _ ii A Mechanism for Molecular Asymmetry 295 Random Walking 205 A. L. Koch, T. M. Schmidt H. J. Morowitz, D. W. Deamer, T. Smith The First Cellular Bioenergetic Process: Letter to the Editor: Biogenesis as an Primitive Generation of a Proton-Motive Evolutionary Process 207 Force 297 E. C. Holmes M. Bulmer Different Rates of Substitution May Produce Strand Symmetry of Mutation Rates in the Different Phylogenies of the Eutherian B-Globin Region 305 Mammals 209 M. R. Shen, M. A. Batzer, P. L. Deininger K. Mita, S. Ichimura, M. Nenoi Evolution of the Master Alu Gene(s) 311 Essential Factors Determining Codon Usage in Ubiquitin Genes 216 S. Andersson, A. Lambertsson Evolution of the dec-1 Eggshell Locus in E. Jamet, Y. Parmentier, A. Durr, J. Fleck Drosophila. |. Restriction Site Mapping and Genes Encoding the Small Subunit of Limited Sequence Comparison in the RUBISCO Belong to Two Highly Conserved melongaster Species Subgroup 321 Subfamilies in Nicotianeae 226 R. Creti, F. Citarella, O. Tiboni, A. G. Drouin Sanangelantoni, P. Palm, P. Cammarano Nonrandom CpG Mutations Affect the Nucleotide Sequence of a DNA Region Synonymous Codon Usage of Moderately Comprising the Gene for Elongation Factor GC-Rich Single Copy Actin Genes 237 1a (EF-1a) from the Ultrathermophilic Archaeote Pyrococcus woesei: J. G. Lawrence, D. L. Hartl, H.O chman Phylogenetic Implications 332 Molecular Considerations in the Evolution of Bacterial Genes 241 B. K. Davis Kinetics of Rapid RNA Evolution in P. Abad, C. Quiles, S. Tares, C. Piotte, Vitro 343 P. Castagnone-Sereno, M. Abadon, A. Dalmasso A. F. R. Stewart, B. Camoretti-Mercado, D. Sequences Homologous to Tc(s) Perlman, M. Gupta, S. Jakovcic, R. Zak Transposable Elements of Caenorhabditis Structural and Phylogenetic Analysis of the elegans are Widely Distributed in the Chicken Ventricular Myosin Heavy Chain Phylum Nematoda 251 Rod 357 R. Nussinov K. J. Fryxell, E. M. Meyerowitz Distinct Patterns in the Dinucleotide Nearest The Evolution of Rhodopsins and Neighbors to G/C and A/T Oligomers in Neurotransmitter Receptors 367 Eukaryotic Sequences 259 G. S. Spicer S. E. Douglas, S. Turner Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny of the Molecular Evidence for the Origin of Plastids Drosophila virilis Species Group as Inferred from a Cyanobacterium-like Ancestor 267 by Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis 379 P. G. Martin, J. M. Dowd T. McLellan, F. Sherman A Comparison of 18s Ribosomal RNA and The Influence of Site-Specificity of Rubisco Large Subunit Sequences for Single Amino Acid Substitutions on Studying Angiosperm Phylogeny 274 Electrophoretic Separation of Yeast Iso-1-Cytochrome c 395 H. T. Wright, G. Sandrasegaram, C. S. Wright Erratum 402 Evolution of a Family of N-Acetylglucosamine Binding Proteins Instructions to Authors on page iv Containing the Disulfide-Rich Domain of Wheat Germ Agglutinin 283 Indexed in Current Contents Instructions to Authors on inside back cover Indexed in Current Contents No. 5, November 1991 No. 6, December 1991 Random Walking 403 Random Walking 475 W. A. Sokalski, M. Shibata, D. Barak, L. Rodriguez, L. E. Orgel R. Rein Template-Directed Extension of a Catalytic Activity of Aminoacyl tRNA Guanosine 5'-Phosphate Covalently Synthetases and Its Implications for the Attached to an Oligodeoxycytidylate Origin of Life 1. Aminoacyl Adenylate Template 477 Formation in Tyrosyl tRNA Synthetase 405 G. A. Schachtel, P. Bucher, E. S. Mocarski, B. E. Blaisdell, S. Karlin D. Haig, L. D. Hurst Evidence for Selective Evolution in Codon A Quantitative Measure of Error Usage in Conserved Amino Acid Segments Minimization in the Genetic Code 412 of Human Alphaherpesvirus Proteins 483 K. W. Swanson, D. M. Irwin, A. C. Wilson C. J. Jaworski, A. B. Chepelinsky, J. Stomach Lysozyme Gene of the Langur Piatigorsky Monkey: Tests for Convergence and The aA-Crystallin Gene: Conserved Positive Selection 418 Features of the 5’-Flanking Regions in Human, Mouse, and Chicken 495 S. Paabo, W. K. Thomas, K. M. Whitfield, Y. Kumazawa, A. C. Wilson J.-P. Shaw, J. Marks, C.-K. J. Shen Rearrangements of Mitochondrial Transfer The Adult a-Globin Locus of Old Worid RNA Genes in Marsupials 426 Monkeys: An Abrupt Breakdown of Sequence Similarity to Human is Defined by C. E. Zevering, C. Moritz, A. Heideman, an Alu Family Repeat Insertion Site 506 R. A. Sturm Parallel Origins of Duplications and the K. Maruyama, D. L. Hartl Formation of Pseudogenes in Mitochondrial Evidence for Interspecific Transfer of the DNA from Parthenogenetic Lizards Transposable Element Mariner between (Heteronotia binoei, Gekkonidae) 431 Drosophila and Zaprionus 514 A. C. Eyre-Walker D. Bhattacharya, S. K. Stickel, M. L. Sogin An Analysis of Codon Usage in Mammals: Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Actin Selection or Mutation Bias? 442 Genic Regions from Achlya bisexualis (Oomycota) and Costaria costata P. Capy, K. Maruyama, J. R. David, D. L. (Chromophyta) 525 Hartl Insertion Sites of the Transposable Element G. Pesole, E. Sbisa, F. Mignotte, C. Mariner are Fixed in the Genome of Saccone Drosophila sechellia 450 The Branching Order of Mammals: Phylogenetic Trees Inferred from Nuclear G. L. M. van Rens, F. A. Hol, W. W. de and Mitochondrial Molecular Data 537 Jong, H. Bloemendal Presence of Hybridizing DNA Sequences D. A. Merriwether, A. G. Clark, S. W. Homologous to Bovine Acidic and Basic Ballinger, T. G. Schurr, H. Soodyall, T. B-Crystallins in All Classes of Jenkins, S. T. Sherry, D. C. Wallace Vertebrates 457 The Structure of Human Mitochondrial DNA Variation 543 P. N. Wood The Use of Bonding between tRNAs to U. Arnason, A. Gullberg, B. Widegren Implement Early Peptide Synthesis 464 The Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the Mitochondrial DNA of the Fin Whale, F. Tajima Balaenoptera physalus 556 Determination of Window Size for Analyzing DNA Sequences 470 Index to Volume 33 569 Instructions to Authors on page iv Announcement on page iii Indexed in Current Contents Instructions to Authors on page iv Indexed in Current Contents