1. A genetic approach to the identification of functional amino acids in protein p6 of Bacillus subtilis phage ø29

   • Alicia Bravo
   • José Miguel Hermoso
   • Margarita Salas

   Original Paper Pages: 529 - 536

2. Synthesis of an unusual α-zein protein is correlated with the phenotypic effects of the floury2 mutation in maize

   • Mauricio A. Lopes
   • Craig E. Coleman
   • Brian A. Larkins

   Original Paper Pages: 537 - 547

3. QTL mapping of naturally-occurring variation in flowering time of Arabidopsis thaliana

   • Stanley P. Kowalski
   • Tien-Hung Lan
   • Andrew H. Paterson

   Original Paper Pages: 548 - 555

4. Chaperone-mediated activation in vivo of a Pseudomonas cepacia lipase

   • Jesper L. Aamand
   • Audrey H. Hobson
   • David J. McConnell

   Original Paper Pages: 556 - 564

5. Structural and functional characterisation of the signal recognition particle-specific 54 kDa protein (SRP54) of tomato

   • Sylvia Krolkiewicz
   • Heinz L. Sänger
   • Ursula Niesbach-KLösgen

   Original Paper Pages: 565 - 576

6. Retrotransposon-induced ectopic expression of the Om(2D) gene causes the eye-specific Om(M) phenotype in Drosophila ananassae

   • Kiyohito Yoshida
   • Naoto Juni
   • Samuel H. Hori

   Original Paper Pages: 577 - 587

7. DPhK-γ, a putative Drosophila kinase with homology to vertebrate phosphorylase kinase γ subunits: molecular characterisation of the gene and phenotypic analysis of loss of function mutants

   • Sami M. Bahri
   • William Chia

   Original Paper Pages: 588 - 597

8. Mapping a mutator, mu2, which increases the frequency of terminal deletions in Drosophila melanogaster

   • Min Wang
   • Larry E. Champion
   • James M. Mason

   Original Paper Pages: 598 - 607

9. Modification of the 5′ untranslated leader region of the maize Activator element leads to increased activity in Arabidopsis

   • E. J. R. Lawson
   • S. R. Scofield
   • C. Dean

   Original Paper Pages: 608 - 615

10. Cytosolic and plastid forms of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase in Euglena gracilis are differentially expressed during light-induced chloroplast development

    • Christiane Reinbothe
    • Birgit Ortel
    • Steffen Reinbothe

    Original Paper Pages: 616 - 622

11. Position and direction of strand exchange in bacteriophage HK022 integration

    • Mikhail Kolot
    • Ezra Yagil

    Original Paper Pages: 623 - 627

12. Analysis of a histone H2A variant from fission yeast: evidence for a role in chromosome stability

    • A. M. Carr
    • S. M. Dorrington
    • P. Nurse

    Original Paper Pages: 628 - 635

13. The homeotic Macho mutant of Antirrhinum majus reverts to wild-type or mutates to the homeotic plena phenotype

    • Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
    • Heinz Saedler

    Original Paper Pages: 636 - 643

14. Comparison of genetic and physical maps of group 7 chromosomes from Triticum aestivum L.

    • Uwe Hohmann
    • Takashi R. Endo
    • Bikram S. Gill

    Original Paper Pages: 644 - 653

15. A Drosophila gene encoding a DEAD box RNA helicase can suppress loss of wee1/mik1 function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    • Emma Warbrick
    • David Glover

    Short Communication Pages: 654 - 657

16. Genetic differentiation in a captive population of the endangered Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus Pall.)

    • Olga N. Tokarskaya
    • Vadim V. Kalnin
    • Aleksei P. Ryskov

    Short Communication Pages: 658 - 660