This volume holds a collection of papers around the discovery of transposable elements in maize and chomosome behaviour. They were selected because of their relevance to this topic. For the discovery of "Mobile genetic elements" Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.

This volume holds a collection of papers around the discovery of transposable elements in maize and chomosome behaviour. They were selected because of their relevance to this topic. For the discovery of "Mobile genetic elements" Barbara McClintock received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.