Fifteen contributions on topics that the Mutator transposable element family of maize, protein phosphorylation, codon usage in primates, the role of nodulation genes in bacterium-plant communication, regulation of gene expression by epidermal growth factor, functions of intracellular protein degradation in yeast, and transgenic fish for aquaculture. Rapid publication is a hallmark of the series, but it's been done legibly and with an index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.