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The paper discusses the connectivity of periodic and preperiodic domains in the stable set in the iteration of a meromorphic function. The connectivity of an invariant component has one of the values 1, 2, ∞. Examples are constructed to show that the connectivity of a preperiodic component may take any value.

For functions meromorphic in the plane, apart from an exceptional case, the Julia set J is the closure of the set of all preimages of poles. The repelling periodic cycles are dense in J. In contrast with the case of transcendental entire functions, J may be a subset of a straight line and general classes of functions for which this is the case can be determined. J may also lie on a quasicircle through infinity which is not a straight line.