1. Characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae FCY1 gene encoding cytosine deaminase and its homologue FCA1 of Candida albicans

   • P. Erbs
   • F. Exinger
   • R. Jund

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 1 - 6

2. Isolation of early meiotic recombination genes analogous to S. cerevisiae REC104 from the yeasts S. paradoxus and S. pastorianus

   • Johnathan J. Nau
   • Katherine R. Summers
   • Robert E. Malone

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 7 - 14

3. Analysis of a transketolase gene from Kluyveromyces lactis reveals that the yeast enzymes are more related to transketolases of prokaryotic origins than to those of higher eukaryotes

   • Jörg J. Jacoby
   • J. J. Heinisch

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 15 - 21

4. Arabinoxylan degradation by fungi: characterization of the arabinoxylan-arabinofuranohydrolase encoding genes from Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus tubingensis

   • Marco M. C. Gielkens
   • Jaap Visser
   • L. H. de Graaff

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 22 - 29

5. Improved biocontrol activity of Trichoderma harzianum by over-expression of the proteinase-encoding gene prb1

   • A. Flores
   • I. Chet
   • A. Herrera-Estrella

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 30 - 37

6. 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase gene of Gibberella fujikuroi: isolation and characterization

   • Solveig Woitek
   • Shiela E. Unkles
   • B. Tudzynski

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 38 - 47

7. Partial sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the crustacean Daphnia pulex

   • Teresa J. Crease
   • T. J. Little

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 48 - 54

8. A mitochondrial sub-stoichiometric orf87-nad3-nad1 exonA co-transcription unit present in Solanaceae was amplified in the genus Nicotiana

   • Sophie Gutierres
   • C. Lelandais
   • P. Chétrit

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 55 - 62

9. Genes encoding subunit 6 of NADH dehydrogenase and subunit 6 of ATP synthase are co-transcribed in maize mitochondria

   • Najat Haouazine-Takvorian
   • Alain Takvorian
   • B. Lejeune

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 63 - 69

10. An open reading frame for a protein involved in cytochrome c biogenesis is split into two parts in Brassica mitochondria

    • Rima Menassa
    • Nabil El-Rouby
    • G. G. Brown

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 70 - 79

11. Group-I introns in the cytochrome c oxidase genes of Dictyostelium discoideum : two related ORFs in one loop of a group-I intron, a cox1/2 hybrid gene and an unusually large cox3 gene

    • Shinji Ogawa
    • Kuniko Matsuo
    • Y. Tanaka

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 80 - 88

12. Two new group-II twintrons in the Euglena gracilis chloroplast are absent in basally branching Euglena species

    • Michael D. Thompson
    • Liqun Zhang
    • R. B. Hallick

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 89 - 95