Part of the ExPASy Molecular Biology Server, this extensive list contains almost exclusively pointers to information sources for life scientists with an interest in biological macromolecules.

Research and publications on the origin of new genes, new functions, and their role in genome evolution, adaptation, and species differences.

Directed evolution of enzymes used for synthesis of pure enantiomers.

The evolution group of the Institute of Molecular BioSciences at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Transcript of chat with biochemist James Shapiro of the University of Chicago on his concept of "natural genetic engineering" at the cellular level.

A non-profit organization founded in 1993, and incorporated in 1997, to facilitate the communication and publishing of information in the field of Molecular Evolution. Membership benefits include a personal subscription to the Journal of Molecular Evolution (JME), the official Journal of the Society, and discounts for the international meetings organized by the Society.

Journal is dedicated to bringing Darwin's dream-to "have fairly true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of Nature"-within grasp. Provides a forum for molecular studies that advance the understanding of phylogeny and evolution.

Abstracts and investigations on origins of life, beginning with autocatalytic sets through the mechanism of spontaneous organization.

Explores the structural relationship between cosmological symmetry-breaking and the form of molecular evolution leading to biological systems on Earth. It thus forms an alternative to historical hypotheses in which the form of biogenesis is believed to be the product of a linked sequence of specific conditions, bridged by stochastic selection processes.

Details work exploring the evolution of novel ribozymes (deoxyribo and ribonucleic acid catalysts) from populations of random sequences, attempting to shed light on the origins of biological catalysis.

Describes and explains a theory that shows how organisms can use or may have used thermal cycling as an energy source, for example in volcanic hot springs, as an evolutionary step towards photosynthesis.

This site explores the possibility that genetic variation and natural selection are two sides of a unitary and simultaneous response to the struggle for existence, as recent experiments at Harvard and elsewhere on bacteria imply.