1. Editor’s note

   • H. Sharat Chandra

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 2

2. Preface

   • Tomoko Ohta
   • William B. Provine

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

3. Motoo Kimura: Student, colleague, and friend

   • James F. Crow

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 7

4. Western geneticists ‘discover’ Kimura

   • William B. Provine

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 17

5. Always an eccentric?: A brief biography of Motoo Kimura

   • Tomoko Y. Steen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 25

6. Infinite-allele model and infinite-site model in population genetics

   • Fumio Tajima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 31

7. Effects of the shape of distribution of mutant effect in nearly neutral mutation models

   • Hidenori Tachida

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 48

8. Reductions in genetic variation inDrosophila andE. coli caused by selection at linked sites

   • Brian Charlesworth
   • David S. Guttman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 61

9. Survival rates of mutant genes under artificial selection using individual and family information

   • Armando Caballero
   • Ming Wei
   • William G. Hill

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 80

10. Pairwise differences under a general model of population subdivision

    • John Wakeley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 89

11. Pattern of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitutions: An indicator of mechanisms of molecular evolution

    • Yasuo Ina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 115

12. The major histocompatibility complex and the neutral theory: The exception that proves the rule?

    • Jan Klein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 124

13. Adaptive evolution at the molecular level of the duplicatedAmy gene system inDrosophila

    • Nobuyuki Inomata
    • Tsuneyuki Yamazaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 137