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BioTechniques 24(1), January 1998
Table of Contents

Benchmarks

Rapid Amplification of Transposon Ends for
the Isolation, Cloning and Sequencing of
Transposon-Disrupted Chromosomal Genes
     E.M. Ribot, F.D. Quinn, X. Bai and J.J.
     Murtagh, Jr.   

Comparative PCR: An Improved Method to Detect
Gene Amplification
     N. Brass, D. Heckel and E. Meese

Adaptor PCR for the Specific Amplification of
Unknown DNA Fragments
     H. Willems

Use of T4 DNA Polymerase to Create Cohesive
Termini in PCR Products for Subcloning and
Site-Directed Mutagenesis
     A.J. Cooney

Amplification of Short Tandem Repeat Loci:
Performance of Different Polymerases and
Radionucleotides
     B. Winnepenninckx and T. Backeljau

Increased Yield of Tri- and Tetranucleotide
Heterospecific Microsatellites from
Unenriched Small-Insert Libraries
     K.D. Makova and J.C. Patton

Vector-Swapping Strategy with an Exonuclease
in Cloning and High Expression of Small PCR
Products
     M. Obara and K. Yoshizato

Universal Amplification of DNA Isolated from
Small Regions of Paraffin-Embedded,
Formalin-Fixed Tissue
     S.W. Faulkner and D.A. Leigh

UV Irradiation of Polystyrene Pipets Releases
PCR Inhibitors
     V. Linquist, C.A. Stoddart and J.M. 
     McCune

Screening for Positive Transfected Clones
with Coexpressed Green Fluorescent Protein
     X. Li, N. Ngo, C. Hou, S. Cunningham, 
     R.B. Zhang, Z. Li and
     C.-C. Huang


Elimination of Internal Restriction Enzyme
Sites from a Bacterial Luminescence
(luxCDABE) Operon
     C.R. Voisey and F. Marincs

Dye-Induced Denaturation of DNA Dissolved in
Water
     B. Shieh, I.-J. Su, W.-J. Chuang and C.
     Li

pBendBlue: Modification of the pBend System
for Color Selectability
     S.J. Sperbeck and G.J. Wistow

Nonradioactive UV Cross-Linking Assay for the
Study of Protein-RNA Binding
     C. Vaquero, Y.-C. Liao and R. Fischer

Higher Sensitivity of Denaturing Gradient Gel
Electrophoresis than Sequencing in the
Detection of Mutations in DNA from Tumor
Samples
     M. Garcia-Delgado, C.J.
     Gonzalez-Navarro, M.C. Napal, C.
     Baldonado, J.L. Vizmanos and A. Gull

Defogging Tissue Culture Lids for Viewing
Cells
     M.G. Price, J.M. Schwartz Ebarb and E.G.
     Frank

Internet On-Ramp
     Cyberspace for Biologists


Short Technical Reports

Comparison of Histologic Stains for Use in
PCR Analysis of Microdissected,
Paraffin-Embedded Tissues
     M.P. Burton, B.G. Schneider, R. Brown, 
     N. Escamilla-Ponce and M.L. Gulley

Coverslip Mounted-Immersion Cycled In Situ
RT-PCR for the Localization of mRNA in Tissue
Sections
     R. Ertsey and L.M. Scavo

Mass Spectrometric Methods for Evaluating
Point Mutations
     J.K. Lewis, J.R. Krone and R.W. Nelson

Fluorescence-Based Protein Footprinting Using
Histidine-Tagged Protein
     G.V. Rajendrakumar and S. Adhya

Novel Vector for Generating RNAs with Defined
3-prime Ends and Its Use in Antiviral
Strategies
     A. Schwienhorst and B.F. Lindemann

Determination of Transgene Copy Number and
Expression Level using Denaturing Gradient
Gel Electrophoresis
     M.D. Ringel, W.F. Schwindinger, M. Saji,
     M.A. Zeiger and M.A. Levine

Adaptation of Standard Spreadsheet Software
for the Analysis of DNA Sequences
     N.R. McEwan and D. Gatherer


Research Reports

Denaturation Fingerprinting: Two Related
Mutation Detection Methods Especially
Advantageous for High G+C Regions
     Q. Liu, B.G. Weinshenker, D.M.
     Wingerchuk and S.S. Sommer   
     
Automated Recording of RNA Differential
Display Patterns from Pig Granulosa Cells
     J. Motlik, J.W. Carnwath, D. Herrmann, 
     V. Terletski, M. Anger and H. Niemann


Product Application Focus

Advantages of a New Taq DNA Polymerase in
Multiplex PCR and Time-Release PCR
     C. Kebelmann-Betzing, K. Seeger, S. 
     Dragon, G. Schmitt, A.
     Moricke, T.A. Schild, G. Henze and B. 
     Beyermann

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