Annual Review of Genetics articles from January 1 1999

Annual Review of Genetics archives from January 1 1999

HISTORY OF PLANT POPULATION GENETICS.
January 1, 1999... Key Words propagation, cleistogamy, pollination, selfing, maize * Abstract This review of plant population genetics focuses on the genetic foundations of the processes that have led to documentable improvements in cultivated plants since...

FAS LIGAND-INDUCED APOPTOSIS.
January 1, 1999... Key Words cell death, Fas, death factor, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, lymphoproliferation * Abstract The immune response is regulated not only by cell proliferation and differentiation, but also by programmed cell death, or apoptosis. In...

MECHANISMS OF STATIONARY PHASE MUTATION: A Decade of Adaptive Mutation.
January 1, 1999... Key Words spontaneous mutation, evolution, selection, hypermutation, directed mutation * Abstract A decade of research on adaptive mutation has revealed a plethora of mutagenic mechanisms that may be important in evolution. The DNA...

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF HUMAN RETINAL DISEASE.
January 1, 1999... Amir Rattner [1,4] Hui Sun [1,4] Jeremy Nathans [1-4] Key Words macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, photoreceptor, ophthalmic genetics * Abstract The past decade has witnessed extraordinary progress in retinal...

LENTIVIRUS REPLICATION AND REGULATION.
January 1, 1999... Key Words retrovirus, human immunodeficiency virus, transcriptional regulation, posttranscriptional control, downregulation * Abstract Lentiviruses are associated with chronic diseases of the hematological and neurological systems in...

SHUFFLONS: Multiple Inversion Systems and Integrons.
January 1, 1999... Key Words site-specific recombination, multiple inversion, mating variation, antigenic variation, integrons * Abstract Conservative site-specific recombination functions to create biological diversity in prokaryotes. Simple site-specific...

MESSENGER RNA STABILITY AND ITS ROLE IN CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION IN BACTERIA AND PHAGES.
January 1, 1999... Key Words RNAse B, RNAse III, PNPase, RNase II, poly(A) polymerase, mRNA stability, autoregulation * Abstract The stability of mRNA in prokaryotes depends on multiple factors and it has not yet been possible to describe the process of...

MECHANISMS OF mRNA SURVEILLANCE IN EUKARYOTES.
January 1, 1999... Key Words nonsense decay, mRNA biogenesis, mRNP remodeling, translation termination, kinetic proofreading * Abstract A conserved mRNA degradation system, referred to as mRNA surveillance, exists in eukaryotic cells to degrade aberrant...

RIBOSOME SYNTHESIS IN Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
January 1, 1999... Jaap Venema [1] David Tollervey [2] Key Words pre-rRNA processing, nucleolus, snoRNA, exonuclease, assembly * Abstract The synthesis of ribosomes is one of the major metabolic pathways in all cells. In addition to around 75...

THE FRENCH SCHOOL OF GENETICS: From Physiological and Population Genetics to Regulatory Molecular Genetics.
January 1, 1999... RM Burian [1] J Gayon [2] Key Words history of genetics, lysogeny, population genetics, physiological genetics, regulatory genetics * Abstract French genetics had unusual beginnings. There are clear indications that the French...

MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... B. Franz Lang [1] Michael W. Gray [2] Gertraud Burger [1] Key Words genomics, protists, phylogeny, gene order, [alpha]-Proteobacteria, Archezoa * Abstract Recent results from ancestral (minimally derived) protists testify...

GENETICS OF CHEMOTAXIS AND THERMOTAXIS IN THE NEMATODE CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS.
January 1, 1999... Key Words behavior, sensory signal transduction, nervous system, neural plasticity, learning and memory * Abstract Molecular genetic analysis of chemotaxis and thermotaxis in Caenorhabditis elegans has revealed the molecular bases of...

BACTERIAL CELL DIVISION.
January 1, 1999... Key Words cell cycle, fts genes, septation, morphogenesis, cell shape * Abstract Formation of the bacterial division septum is catalyzed by a number of essential proteins that assemble into a ring structure at the future division site....

TOWARD AN INTEGRATED GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTOZOA AND OTHER PATHOGENS.
January 1, 1999... Key Words population genetics, coevolution, clonality, molecular typing, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases * Abstract Due to the increase of human migrations, the appearance of emerging and reemerging endemies, growing...

PLANT RETROTRANSPOSONS.
January 1, 1999... Key Words DNA markers, evolution, genome organization, mutation, regulation, retroelements * Abstract Retrotransposons are mobile genetic elements that transpose through reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. Retrotransposons are...

MAMMALIAN DNA MISMATCH REPAIR.
January 1, 1999... R. Michael Liskay [1] Sean M. Baker [2] Suzanne M. Deschenes [1] Andrew B. Buermeyer [1] Key Words mutator, hereditary cancer, genetic instability, tumorigenesis, mice * Abstract DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is one of...

MEIOTIC CHROMOSOMES: Integrating Structure and Function.
January 1, 1999... * Abstract Mejotic chromosomes have been studied for many years, in part because of the fundamental life processes they represent, but also because meiosis involves the formation of homolog pairs, a feature which greatly facilitates the...

FAMILY VALUES IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS: Comparative Analyses of Temperate Bacteriophage HK022 [*].
January 1, 1999... Roger W. Hendrix [3] John W. Little [4] Max E. Gottesman [2] Robert A. Weisberg [1] Key Words bacteriophage [lambda], genomics, virus evolution, transcription termination, transcription antitermination, genetic switch,...