Molecular Cytogenetics

✍ Scribed by C. A. Thomas Jr. (auth.), Barbara Ann Hamkalo, John Papaconstantinou (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume represents the Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Biology Division Research Conference held April 9-12, 1973 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The subject of the symposium was Molecular Cytogenetics and the aim of the meeting was to bring together researchers interested in problems of chromosome organi­ zation, activity and regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Cytological, biochemical and genetic approaches to these questions were included since the collective information gained from these disciplines provides an integrated approach to genome structure and function. The meeting was sponsored by the Biology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory*. It would not have been possible with­ out the interest and cooperation of the organizing committee under the chairmanship of O. L. Miller, Jr. Special thanks are due to the chairmen and speakers for making this volume possible and to Dr. Waldo Cohn for his assistance in editing. Preparation of the completed volume was due in large part to the efforts of Sandra Vaughan of the Biology Division. The Editors Barbara Ann Hamkalo John Papaconstantinou August, 1973 * Operated by the Union Carbide Corporation for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
As the Conference Opens....Pages 1-7
Sequence Organization in Animal DNA’s....Pages 9-30
DNA Replication in the Chromosomes of Eukaryotes....Pages 31-47
The Mechanism of Gene Amplification in Xenopus Laevis Oöcytes....Pages 49-58
Repetitive DNA in Drosophila ....Pages 59-74
Evolution of 9S mRNA Sequences....Pages 75-93
A New Approach to the Study of Nucleotide Sequences in DNA’s....Pages 95-99
On the Structure of Pre-mRNA and the Transcriptional Unit in Eukaryotes....Pages 101-114
Purification of Individual Histone mRNA’s and Evolution of Their Sequences and Sizes....Pages 115-123
Reiteration of DNA Coding for Collagen Messenger RNA....Pages 125-131
On the Role of Poly a Sequences in mRNA Metabolism....Pages 133-145
Nonhistone Proteins of the Newt Germinal Vesicle....Pages 147-153
The Giant RNA Transcript in a Balbiani Ring of Chironomus Tentans ....Pages 155-165
Studies on the Template Specificities of Eukaryotic DNA-Dependent RNA Polymerases in Vitro ....Pages 167-179
Genetic Autonomy of Mitochondrial DNA....Pages 181-208
Involvement of RNA in the Process of Puff Induction in Polytene Chromosomes....Pages 209-215
Stimulation of RNA Polymerase III by Histones and Other Polycations....Pages 217-226
A Transcription Complex from Chloroplasts of Euglena Gracilis ....Pages 227-231
Studies on the Replication of DNA....Pages 233-251
Regulation of Bacterial Genes....Pages 253-261
Host-Dependent Gene Expression of Bacteriophages T3 and T7....Pages 263-276
Synthesis of RNA Primer for Lambda DNA Replication is Controlled by Phage and Host....Pages 277-283
Interaction in DNA Replication of the Gene 32 and RII Products of Phage T4 with the dna C Product of the Host....Pages 285-291
Some Considerations Regarding the Structure and Function of Promoter-Operator Regions....Pages 293-300
Structure of Sigma-Dependent Binding Sites of E. Coli RNA Polymerase to Phages λ, T5 and T7 DNA’s....Pages 301-307
Genetic regulation of Quinate-Shikimate Catabolism in Neurospora Crassa ....Pages 309-314
Ultrastructural Aspects of Genetic Activity....Pages 315-323
Molecular Cytogenetics: A Symposium Summary....Pages 325-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-359

✦ Subjects

Human Genetics