Structure and organization of the eukaryotic genome with special emphasis on satellite DNAs and the phenomenology and control of the crustacean molt cycle

The Bermuda land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis has been cloned into three different restriction enzyme sites of satellite DNA. A series of variants of the satellite contain transitions, transversions, amplifications, insertions and/or deletions from specific regions of as little as a few and as many as some hundreds of base pairs. The cloned variants of the satellite offer a unique opportunity to determine structure-function interactions. Three of the cloned satellite variants have been sequenced