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BRIEF CONTENTS

PART I Genes and Chromosomes

Chapter 1 Genes Are DNA and Encode RNAs and Polypeptides

Edited by Esther Siegfried

Chapter 2 Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering

Chapter 3 The Interrupted Gene

Chapter 4 The Content of the Genome

Chapter 5 Genome Sequences and Evolution

Chapter 6 Clusters and Repeats

Chapter 7 Chromosomes

Edited by Hank W. Bass

Chapter 8 Chromatin

Edited by Craig Peterson

PART II DNA Replication and Recombination

Chapter 9 Replication Is Connected to the Cell Cycle

Edited by Barbara Funnell

Chapter 10 The Replicon: Initiation of Replication

Chapter 11 DNA Replication

Chapter 12 Extrachromosomal Replicons

Chapter 13 Homologous and Site-Specific Recombination

Edited by Hannah L. Klein and Samantha Hoot

Chapter 14 Repair Systems

Chapter 15 Transposable Elements and Retroviruses

Edited by Damon Lisch

Chapter 16 Somatic DNA Recombination and Hypermutation in the Immune System

Edited by Paolo Casali

PART III Transcription and Posttranscriptional Mechanisms

Chapter 17 Prokaryotic Transcription

Chapter 18 Eukaryotic Transcription

Chapter 19 RNA Splicing and Processing

Chapter 20 mRNA Stability and Localization

Edited by Ellen Baker

Chapter 21 Catalytic RNA

Edited by Douglas J. Briant

Chapter 22 Translation

Chapter 23 Using the Genetic Code

PART IV Gene Regulation

Chapter 24 The Operon

Edited by Liskin Swint-Kruse

Chapter 25 Phage Strategies

Chapter 26 Eukaryotic Transcription Regulation

Chapter 27 Epigenetics I

Edited by Trygve Tollefsbol

Chapter 28 Epigenetics II

Edited by Trygve Tollefsbol

Chapter 29 Noncoding RNA

Chapter 30 Regulatory RNA