Dicty News Electronic Edition Volume 24, number 15 June 10, 2005 Please submit abstracts of your papers as soon as they have been accepted for publication by sending them to dicty@northwestern.edu or by using the form at http://dictybase.org/db/cgi-bin/dictyBase/abstract_submit. Back issues of Dicty-News, the Dicty Reference database and other useful information is available at dictyBase - http://dictybase.org. ============================================================================= A new book on analyses of the Dictyostelium genome will be available this month from Horizon Bioscience, Norford, U.K. (order your copy now). ============================================================================= DICTYOSTELIUM GENOMICS edited by William F. Loomis and Adam Kuspa Horizon Bioscience, Norfold, U.K. Preface ..................................................................... vii Chapter 1 William F. Loomis Mapping and Sequencing the Dictyostelium Genome ........................1 Chapter 2 Rex L. Chisholm dictyBase: Using the Genome to Organize Dictyostelium Biology .........23 Chapter 3 Samuel H. Payne Metabolic Pathways ....................................................41 Chapter 4 Christophe Anjard Multigene Families of Dictyostelium ...................................59 Chapter 5 Gad Shaulsky and Eryong Huang Components of the Dictyostelium Gene Expression Regulatory Machinery ..83 Chapter 6 Dale Hereld Signal Transduction via G-Protein-Coupled Receptors, Trimeric G Proteins, and RGS Proteins .....................................................103 Chapter 7 Francisco Rivero and Ludwig Eichinger The Microfilament System of Dictyostelium discoideum .................125 Chapter 8 Gerald Weeks, Pascale Gaudet and Robert H. Insall The Small GTPase Superfamily .........................................173 Chapter 9 Alan R. Kimmel The Dictyostelium Kinome: Protein Kinase Signaling Pathways that Regulate Growth and Development ...............................................211 Chapter 10 Christopher M. West, Hanke van der Wel, Pedro M. Coutinho and Bernard Henrissat Glycosyltransferase Genomics in Dictyostelium discoideum .............235 Chapter 11 Rolf M. Olsen How Many Protein Encoding Genes Does Dictyostelium discoideum Have?...265 Chapter 12 Adam Kuspa Whole-Genome Functional Analyses in Dictyostelium ....................279 Index ....................................................................... 297 Submitted by: William F. Loomis [wloomis@ucsd.edu] ============================================================================== [End Dicty News, volume 24, number 15]