This volume brings together the disciplines of plant and animal genome research, and serves as an opportunity for scientists from both fields to compare results, problems and prospects.

Assessing Genetic Diversity in Plants with Synthetic Tandem Repetitive DNA Probes.- Microsatellite Heterozygosity: Functional Constraints on the Development and Use of Comprehensive Genomic Maps for Livestock.- Applications of DNA Fingerprints for the Study of Genetic Structure of Human Populations.- Progress toward a Transcript Map of the Human Genome.- Toward the Construction of an Integrated Genetic and Physical Map of Rice.- Physical Mapping of the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome.- Molecular Markers, Forest Genetics, and Tree Breeding.- Commonalities and Contrasts in the Organization of the Maize and Sorghum Nuclear Genomes.- Prospects for Comparative Genome Analyses among Mammals.- Genome Analysis in Farm Animals.- Soybean Genome Organization: Evolution of a Legume Genome.- Comparative Cereal Genome Analysis-Reconstructing the Ancestral Cereal Genome.- A Responsive Regulatory System Is Revealed by Sense Suppression of Pigment Genes in Petunia Flowers.- Escherichia coli-Functional and Evolutionary Implications of Genome Scale Computer-Aided Protein Sequence Analysis.- A Pairing-Looping Model for Position-Effect Variegation in Drosophila.- Matrix Attachment Regions and Transgene Expression.- The Mercurial Germline Genome of Hypotrichous Ciliates.- Mathematical Meiotic Models of Genome Analysis: Comparison with Molecular Approaches.- Genome Research - Implications for Science and Society.