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Random Shotgun Fire

• Laurie Goodman

Odds on the FAST Gene

• Ernest Bailey

WebWise: Guide to the University of Washington Genome Center Web Site

• Kim D. Pruitt

Emerging Patterns of Comparative Genome Organization in Some Mammalian Species as Revealed by Zoo-FISH

• Bhanu P. Chowdhary,
• Terje Raudsepp,
• Lutz Frönicke,
• and Harry Scherthan

Large-Scale Taxonomic Profiling of Eukaryotic Model Organisms: A Comparison of Orthologous Proteins Encoded by the Human, Fly, Nematode, and Yeast Genomes

• Arcady R. Mushegian,
• James R. Garey,
• Jason Martin,
• and Leo X. Liu

Ribonuclease k6: Chromosomal Mapping and Divergent Rates of Evolution within the RNase A Gene Superfamily

• Madeleine S. Deming,
• Kimberly D. Dyer,
• Alan T. Bankier,
• Michael B. Piper,
• Paul H. Dear,
• and Helene F. Rosenberg

Evidence for the Presence of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes-Associated Alleles on the Distal Part of Mouse Chromosome 6

• Evie Melanitou,
• Florence Joly,
• Mark Lathrop,
• Christian Boitard,
• and Philip Avner

Chicken Microchromosomes Are Hyperacetylated, Early Replicating, and Gene Rich

• Heather A. McQueen,
• Giorgia Siriaco,
• and Adrian P. Bird

Physical Map of Human 6p21.2–6p21.3: Region Flanking the Centromeric End of the Major Histocompatibility Complex

• Nicos Tripodis,
• Ruth Mason,
• Sean J. Humphray,
• Angela F. Davies,
• Jethro A. Herberg,
• John Trowsdale,
• Dean Nizetic,
• Gabriele Senger,
• and Jiannis Ragoussis

A Software System for Data Analysis in Automated DNA Sequencing

• Michael C. Giddings,
• Jessica Severin,
• Michael Westphall,
• Jiazhen Wu,
• and Lloyd M. Smith

Rescue of Targeted Regions of Mammalian Chromosomes by in Vivo Recombination in Yeast

• Natalya Kouprina,
• Kensaku Kawamoto,
• J. Carl Barrett,
• Vladimir Larionov,
• and Minoru Koi

Vector–Hexamer PCR Isolation of All Insert Ends from a YAC Contig of the Mouse Igh Locus

• Christopher D. Herring,
• Christophe Chevillard,
• Sean L. Johnston,
• Peter J. Wettstein,
• and Roy Riblet

Errata for vol. 8, p. 479