1. Guest editorial

   • D. B. Janssen

   EditorialNotes Pages: iii - iv

2. Molecular genetics of methane oxidation

   • J. Colin Murrell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 159

3. Genetics of alkane oxidation byPseudomonas oleovorans

   • Jan B. van Beilen
   • Marcel G. Wubbolts
   • Bernard Witholt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 174

4. Molecular genetics of carbon-phosphorus bond cleavage in bacteria

   • Barry L. Wanner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 184

5. The nylon oligomer biodegradation system ofFlavobacterium andPseudomonas

   • Seiji Negoro
   • Ko Kato
   • Hirosuke Okada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 194

6. The evolution of pathways for aromatic hydrocarbon oxidation inPseudomonas

   • Peter A. Williams
   • Jon R. Sayers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 217

7. Genetics and biochemistry of phenol degradation byPseudomonas sp. CF600

   • Justin Powlowski
   • Victoria Shingler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 236

8. Microbes, enzymes and genes involved in dichloromethane utilization

   • Thomas Leisinger
   • Regula Bader
   • Stéphane Vuilleumier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 248

9. Genetics and biochemistry of 1,2-dichloroethane degradation

   • Dick B. Janssen
   • Jan R. van der Ploeg
   • Frens Pries

   OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 257

10. On the origins and functions of the enzymes of the 4-chlorobenzoate to 4-hydroxybenzoate converting pathway

    • Debra Dunaway-Mariano
    • Patricia C. Babbitt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 276

11. Molecular analysis of pentachlorophenol degradation

    • C. S. Orser
    • C. C. Lange

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 288

12. Molecular genetics and evolutionary relationship of PCB-degrading bacteria

    • Kensuke Furukawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 289 - 300

13. Evolution of chlorocatechol catabolic pathways

    • Michael Schlömann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 321

14. Catabolic transposons

    • R. Campbell Wyndham
    • Alisa E. Cashore
    • Michelle C. Peel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 323 - 342

15. Transfer and expression of PCB-degradative genes into heavy metal resistantAlcaligenes eutrophus strains

    • Dirk Springael
    • Ludo Diels
    • Max Mergeay

    OriginalPaper Pages: 343 - 357

16. Genetic construction of PCB degraders

    • Vladimir Brenner
    • Joseph J. Arensdorf
    • Dennis D. Focht

    OriginalPaper Pages: 359 - 377