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.

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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.