1. Identification and characterization of 14 transposon-like elements in the noncoding regions of members of the Xa21 family of disease resistance genes in rice

   • W.-Y. Song
   • L.-Y. Pi
   • P. C. Ronald

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 449 - 456

2. Selection and analysis of rare second-site suppressors of Drosophila RNA polymerase II mutations

   • I. Krasnoselskaya
   • J. Huang
   • M. A. Mortin

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 457 - 465

3. Towards second-generation STS (sequence-tagged sites) linkage maps in conifers: a genetic map of Norway spruce (Picea abies K.)

   • G. P. Paglia
   • A. M. Olivieri
   • M. Morgante

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 466 - 478

4. Genomic organization of six tomato polygalacturonases and 5′ upstream sequence identity with tap1 and win2 genes

   • S.-B. Hong
   • M. L. Tucker

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 479 - 487

5. GATC motifs may alter the conformation of DNA depending on sequence context and N⁶-adenine methylation status: possible implications for DNA-protein recognition

   • P. Polaczek
   • K. Kwan
   • J. L. Campbell

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 488 - 493

6. Regulation of replication of λ phage and λ plasmid DNAs at low temperature

   • M. Gabig
   • M. Obuchowski
   • G. Wegrzyn

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 494 - 502

7. Cis- and trans-splicing and RNA editing are required for the expression of nad2 in wheat mitochondria

   • V. Morawala-Patell
   • J. M. Gualberto
   • G. Bonnard

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 503 - 511

8. A physical assay for detection of early meiotic recombination intermediates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • C. A. Bascom-Slack
   • D. Dawson

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 512 - 520

9. The dynamics of pAL2-1 homologous linear plasmids in Podospora anserina

   • M. van der Gaag
   • A. J. M. Debets
   • R. F. Hoekstra

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 521 - 529

10. A gene coding for an RPS2 protein is present in the mitochondrial genome of several cereals, but not in dicotyledons

    • M. Vaïtilingom
    • M. Stupar
    • J. M. Gualberto

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 530 - 537

11. The stability of mRNA from the gsiB gene of Bacillus subtilis is dependent on the presence of a strong ribosome binding site

    • B. Jürgen
    • T. Schweder
    • M. Hecker

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 538 - 545

12. The involvement of the RAD6 gene in starvation-induced reverse mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • Z. Storchová
    • A. P. Rojas Gil
    • V. Vondrejs

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 546 - 552

13. The role of the Aspergillus fumigatusareA gene in invasive pulmonary aspergillosis

    • M. Hensel
    • H. N. Arst Jr
    • D. W. Holden

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 553 - 557

14. The Rhizobium sp. BR816 nodD ₃ gene is regulated by a transcriptional regulator of the AraC/XylS family

    • K. M. Vlassak
    • P. de Wilde
    • J. Vanderleyden

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 558 - 561

15. Construction and characterization of the IGF Arabidopsis BAC library

    • T. Mozo
    • S. Fischer
    • T. Altmann

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 562 - 570