Extrachromosomal Elements in Lower Eukaryotes [Paperback]

Organellar Genomes.- Mitochondrial Introns as Mobile Genetic Elements: The Role of Intron-Encoded Proteins.- Mobile Elements in the Yeast Mitochondrial Genome.- Mitochondrial Gene Expression in Yeast: Further Studies of a Self-Splicing Group II Intron.- The Mitochondrial DNA of Neurospora Crassa: Deletion by Intramolecular Recombination and the Expression of Mitochondrial Genes.- Initiation of Chloroplast DNA Replication in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii.- Mitochondrial and Chloroplast Plasmids.- Mitochondrial Plasmids of Neurospora and other Filamentous Fungi.- The kalilo Senescence Factor of Neurospora Intermedia: A Mitochondrial IS-Element Derived from a Nuclear Plasmid.- Mitochondrial Plasmids in Cochliobolus Heterostrophus.- Linear Plasmids in the Phytopathogenic Fungus Claviceps Purpurea.- Mitochondrial Excision-Amplification Plasmids in Senescent and Long-Lived Cultures of Podospora Anserina.- Double-Stranded RNA Genomes.- Overview of Double-Stranded RNA Replication in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.- Molecular Characterization of Chromosomal Genes Affecting Double-Stranded RNA Replication in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.- The Replication of Double-Stranded RNA.- Structure and Function of the PET18 Locus of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.- Sequence of the M1-2 Region of Killer Virus Double-Stranded RNA.- Analysis and Utilization of the Preprotoxin Gene Encoded in the M1 Double-Stranded RNA of Yeast.- Double-Stranded RNA and Hypovirulence of Endothia Parasitica.- Ustilago Maydis Virus-Encoded Killer System.- Symbionts.- Symbionts: An Overview.- Extrachromosomal Elements of Extrachromosomal Elements of Paramecium and Their Extrachromosomal Elements.- The Importance of the Refractile Body in Expression of the Killer Trait in Paramecium.- Structure and Characterization of Extrachromosomal DNA of Killer Xenosomes, Intracellular Symbionts of a Marine Protozoan.- Genetic Properties of Linkage Group XIX in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii.- Omikron and Omikron-Like Endosymbionts of Euplotes.- Clƒ¼