PART I: EARLY EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF CELLS

G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000)-An Appreciation

Peter H. Raven

Solution to Darwin's Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life

J. William Schopf

The Chimeric Eukaryote: Origin of the Nucleus from the Karyomastigont in Amitochondriate Protists

Lynn Margulis

Michael F. Dolan

Ricardo Guerrero

Dynamic Evolution of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Mobile Genes and Introns and Highly Variable Mutation Rates

Jeffery D. Palmer

Keith L. Adams

Yangrae Cho

Christopher L. Parkinson

Yin-Long Qiu

Keming Song

PART II: VIRAL AND BACTERIAL MODELS

The Evolution of RNA Viruses: A Population Genetics View

Andres Moya

Santiago E. Elena

Alma Bracho

Rosario Miralles

Eladio Barrio

Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution

Robin M. Bush

Catherine B. Smith

Nancy J. Cox

Walter M. Fitch

Bacteria are Different: Observations, Interpretations, Speculations, and Opinions About the Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Prokaryotes

Bruce R. Levin

Carl T. Bergstrom

PART III: PROTOCTIST MODELS

Evolution of RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria

Larry Simpson

Otavio H. Thiemann

Nicholas J. Savill

Juan D. Alfonzo

D.A. Maslov

Population Structure and Recent Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum

Stephen M. Rich

Francisco J. Ayala

PART IV: POPULATION VARIATION

Transposons and Genome Evolution in Plants

Nina Fedoroff

Maize as a Model for the Evolution of Plant Nuclear Genomes

Brandon S. Gaut

Maud Le Thierry d'Ennequin

Andrew S. Peek

Mark C. Sawkins

Flower Color Variation: A Model for the Experimental Study of Evolution

Michael T. Clegg

Mary L. Durbin

Gene Genealogies and Population Variation in Plants

Barbara A. Schaal

Kenneth M. Olsen

PART V: TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN PLANT EVOLUTION

Toward a New Synthesis: Major Evolutionary Trends in the Angiosperm Fossil Record

David Dilcher

Reproductive Systems and Evolution in Vascular Plants

Kent E. Holsinger

Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants?

Norman C. Ellstrand

Kristina A. Schierenbeck

The Role of Genetic and Genomic Attributes in the Success of Polyploids

Pamela S. Soltis

Douglas E. Soltis

Index