Extrachromosomal Elements in Lower Eukaryotes

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Mitochondrial Introns as Mobile Genetic Elements: the Role of Intron-Encoded Proteins....Pages 5-27
Mobile Elements in the Yeast Mitochondrial Genome....Pages 29-37
Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Yeast: Further Studies of a Self-Splicing Group II Intron....Pages 39-55
The Mitochondrial DNA of Neurospora Crassa : Deletion by Intramolecular Recombination and the Expression of Mitochondrial Genes....Pages 57-65
Initiation of Chloroplast DNA Replication in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ....Pages 67-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Mitochondrial Plasmids of Neurospora and other Filamentous Fungi....Pages 83-92
The kalilo Senescence Factor of Neurospora Intermedia : A Mitochondrial is-Element Derived from a Nuclear Plasmid....Pages 93-103
Mitochondrial Plasmids in Cochliobolus Heterostrophus ....Pages 105-118
Linear Plasmids in the Phytopathogenic Fungus Claviceps Purpurea ....Pages 119-127
Mitochondrial Excision-Amplification Plasmids in Senescent and Long-Lived Cultures of Podospora Anserina ....Pages 129-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Overview of Double-Stranded RNA Replication In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 149-163
Molecular Characterization of Chromosomal Genes Affecting Double-Stranded RNA Replication in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 165-171
The Replication of Double-Stranded RNA....Pages 173-187
Structure and Function of the PET18 Locus of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 189-202
Sequence of the M 1 -2 Region of Killer Virus Double-Stranded RNA....Pages 203-213
Analysis and Utilization of the Preprotoxin Gene Encoded in the M 1 Double-Stranded RNA of Yeast....Pages 215-226
Double-Stranded RNA and Hypovirulence of Endothia Parasitica ....Pages 227-238
 Ustilago Maydis Virus-Encoded Killer System....Pages 239-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Symbionts: An Overview....Pages 261-264
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Extrachromosomal Elements of Extrachromosomal Elements of Paramecium and Their Extrachromosomal Elements....Pages 265-278
The Importance of the Refractile Body in Expression of the Killer Trait in Paramecium ....Pages 279-289
Structure and Characterization of Extrachromosomal DNA of Killer Xenosomes, Intracellular Symbionts of a Marine Protozoan....Pages 291-302
Genetic Properties of Linkage Group XIX in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ....Pages 303-325
Omikron and Omikron-Like Endosymbionts of Euplotes ....Pages 327-335
 Chlorella Algal Viruses....Pages 337-347
Virus-Like Particles in a Soil Ameboflagellate, Naegleria Gruberi ....Pages 349-362
Bacterial Endosymbionts as Extrachromosomal Elements in Amebas....Pages 363-371
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Survival Strategies of the Yeast Plasmid Two-Micron Circle....Pages 375-396
Site-Specific Recombination Promoted in Vitro by the FLP Protein of the Yeast Two-Micron Plasmid....Pages 397-405
Site-Specific Recombination of the Yeast Plasmid Two-Micron Circle: Intermediates in the Binding Process....Pages 407-424
Two-Micron DNA-Like Plasmids from Non-Saccharomyces Yeasts....Pages 425-437
Extrachromosomal DNA Elements in the Nucleus of Dictyostelium Discoideum ....Pages 439-447
Some Structural Aspects of Linear DNA Plasmids in Yeast....Pages 449-461
Yeast DNA Replication....Pages 463-478
Structural Studies on Centromeres in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 479-492
Distribution of Telomere-Associated Sequences in Yeast....Pages 493-498
Host Factors in Nuclear Plasmid Maintenance in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 499-510
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Regulation of the Yeast CYC1 Gene....Pages 513-518
Gene Cloning and Mutant Isolation of Subunits of RNA Polymerases in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ....Pages 519-531
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Translation, Post-Translational Processing, and Mitochondrial Translocation of Yeast Iso-1-Cytochrome c ....Pages 533-544
Control of Yeast Gene Expression by Transposable Elements....Pages 545-555
Back Matter....Pages 557-568