1. Construction of an 800-kb contig in the near-centromeric region of the rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta  ² using a highly representative rice BAC library

   • S. Nakamura
   • S. Asakawa
   • S. Kawasaki

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 611 - 620

2. A trans-acting modifier causing extensive overexpression of genes in Drosophila melanogaster

   • U. Bhadra
   • M. Pal-Bhadra
   • J. A. Birchler

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 621 - 634

3. Gene cloning, sequencing and enzymatic properties of glutamate synthase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus sp. KOD1

   • B. Jongsareejit
   • R. N. Z. A. Rahman
   • T. Imanaka

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 635 - 642

4. Two uvs genes of Aspergillus nidulans with different functions in error-prone repair: uvsI, active in mutation-specific reversion, and uvsC, a recA homolog, required for all UV mutagenesis

   • S.-K. Chae
   • E. Kafer

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 643 - 653

5. Cloning, sequencing, disruption and phenotypic analysis of uvsC, an Aspergillus nidulans homologue of yeast RAD51

   • D. van Heemst
   • K. Swart
   • C. Heyting

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 654 - 664

6. Genetic evidence for 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide (AICAR) as a negative effector of cytochrome terminal oxidase cbb ₃ production in Rhizobium etli

   • M. Soberón
   • O. Lopez
   • C. Morera

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 665 - 673

7. Flipper, a mobile Fot1-like transposable element in Botrytis cinerea

   • C. Levis
   • D. Fortini
   • Y. Brygoo

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 674 - 680

8. A simple signal element mediates transcription termination and mRNA 3′ end formation in the DEG1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • A. Brambilla
   • D. Mainieri
   • M. L. Agostoni Carbone

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 681 - 688

9. A helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif predicted for transposases of DNA transposons

   • S. Pietrokovski
   • S. Henikoff

   SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 689 - 695