FOREWORD

The 45th edition of the Fungal Genetics Newsletter contains articles and notes on a wide variety of topics. As usual, the Aspergillus and Neurospora bibliographies are included, as is the most recent FGSC mailing list. The abstracts from the Neurospora 1998 Conference at Asilomar are published as an electronic supplement available at the FGSC web-site. As always, suggestions regarding the Newsletter are welcome at any time and should be directed to the Newsletter Editor, the FGSC Director and/or to the Fungal Genetics Policy Committee. All address changes and subscription inquiries should be directed to the FGSC.

Peter J. Russell, Editor
Biology Department
Reed College
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199, USA

Members of the Editorial Board:
Peter J. Russell, Reed College, Portland
Thomas Adams, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
A. John Clutterbuck, Glasgow University
Stephen Free, SUNY Buffalo, New York
Martin L. Pall, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Alice Schroeder, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Claude Selitrennikoff, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
Eric U. Selker, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Carolyn Slayman, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Alan Upshall, Seattle, Washington
Richard Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Olen C. Yoder, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Miriam Zolan, Indiana University, Indiana
John Kinsey, Fungal Genetics Stock Center, ex officio

ad hoc reviewers

M. X. Caddick, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Claudio Scazzocchio, Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France

Editorial, publication and distribution costs supported by donations and subscriptions to the Fungal Genetics Newsletter and by grant BIR-9222772 from the Biological Research Program, National Science Foundation.

Distributed by: Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS