Aspects of the stability of the host-pathogen interaction of baculoviruses Risk assessment of genetically modified plants introduced into the environment A. Dietz 209 Treatment of human disorders with gene therapy and its consequences for the human gene pool Hj. Müller 229 The release of microorganisms-ethical criteria D. Mieth 245 Summary Current theories of evolutionary and ecological genetic...

For more than a century, research scientists have been accumulating genetic and biochemical data on model organisms. Now, the explosion of genomic information and the need to search for gene homologies makes it more important than ever that these data should be organized in an accessible way — which is where online databases come into their own. The Spider kicks off with yeast and Caenorhabditi...

Significant warming has been observed in every ocean, yet our ability to predict the consequences of oceanic warming on marine biodiversity remains poor. Experiments have been severely limited because, until now, it has not been possible to manipulate seawater temperature in a consistent manner across a range of marine habitats. We constructed a "hot-plate" system to directly examine ecological...