Table of Contents:
  • Introductory comments on the function of domains in protein structure / Michael G. Rossmann
  • Proteins, exons, and molecular evolution / S.K. Holland and C.C.F. Blake
  • Understanding introns : origins and functions / W. Ford Doolittle
  • Intron-dependent evolution of progenotic enzymes / Edwin M. Stone and Robert J. Schwartz
  • Intervening sequences in molecular evolution / Joseph P. Stein, Maxwell J. Scott, and Bert W. O'Malley
  • Different types of introns and splicing mechanisms / Philip S. Perlman. Craig L. Peebles, and Charles Daniels
  • Alternative mRNA splicing in the generation of protein diversity and the control of gene expression / Christopher W.J. Smith, David Knaack, and Bernardo Nadal-Ginard.