Chromosomes Today

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Part 1. Sex Chromosomes
Chapter 1.1. Mammalian Sex Chromosome Evolution — The Rise and Fall of the Y Chromosome; Jennifer A. Marshall Graves and Paul D. Waters
Chapter 1.2. Avian Sex Chromosomes and Sex-Linked Genes; I. Nanda, Z. Shan, C. Steinlein, M. Schartl, T. Haaf and M. Schmid
Chapter 1.3. DMRT Genes and Sex Determination in Medaka; Ute Hornung, Indrajit Nanda, Mariko Kondo, Atsushi Shimizu, Shuichi Asakawa, Jean-Nicolas Volff, Christoph Winkler, Zhihong Shan, Thomas Haaf, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Akihiro Shima, Michael Schmid and Manfred Schartl
Chapter 1.4. Evolution of the Y Chromosome in Primates; Werner Schempp
Chapter 1.5. The Male Hypermethylation (MHM) Region on the Chicken Z Chromosome: Female-Specific Transcription and its Biological Implication; Mika Teranishi and Shigeki Mizuno
Chapter 1.6. Neo-X and Neo-Y Chromosomes in Drosophila miranda; S. Steinemann and M. Steinemann
Chapter 1.7. The X Chromosome Plays a Special Role During Speciation; Hildegard Keher-Sawatzki and Horst Hameister
Chapter 1.8. Sex Chromosome Evolution: Evidence from Fish, Fly and Moth Species; Walther Traut Part 2. Meiosis
Chapter 2.1. Expression and Chromatin Binding Specificity of Ki-67 in Male and Female Meiosis of the Mouse; Heinz Winking, Johannes Gerdes and Walther Traut
Chapter 2.2. Conservation and Variability of Meiotic Processes — Lessons from the Unconventional Meiosis of C. elegans; Josef Loidl, Pawel Pasierbek and Ann M. Rose
Chapter 2.3. Meiotic Chromosomes and Meiotic Mechanisms; Alberto J. Solari
Chapter 2.4. The Nuclear Envelope at the Attachment Sites of Mammalian Meiotic Telomeres; Ricardo Benavente, Manfred Alsheimer and Elisabeth von Glasenapp
Chapter 2.5. Interphase Cytogenetics in Understanding Chromosome and Telomere Dynamics During Prophase I: Implications for Meiotic Telomere Movements; Harry Scherthan
Part 3. Cancer Cytogenetics
Chapter 3.1. Molecular Cytogenetics in theStudy of Cancer; Jorn Koch
Chapter 3.2. Chromosomal Translocations in Leukaemia: Emerging Networks; Stefan K. Bohlander Part 4. Chromosome Structures
Chapter 4.1. The EVO-DEVO of Pericentromeric DNA in the Mouse; Silvia Garagna, Ernesto Capanna, Maurizio Zuccotti and Carlo Alberto Redi
Chapter 4.2. New Developments in Multicolour Fluorescence in situ Hybridization; Christine Fauth, Jürgen Kraus, Sabine Langer and Michael R. Speicher
Chapter 4.3. Artificial Chromosomes — Past, Present and Future; Howard J. Cooke
Chapter 4.4. Differential Demethylation of Paternal and Maternal Genomes in the Preimplantation Mouse Embryo: Implications for Mammalian Development; Thomas Haaf, Wei Shi, Reinald Fundele, Katharine L. Arney, M. Azim Surani and Sheila C. Barton
Chapter 4.5. Integrated Comparative Genome Maps and Their Implications for Karyotype Evolution of Carnivores; Fengtang Yang and Alexander S. Graphodatsky
Chapter 4.6. Complex Relationships Between DNA Methylation Status and Chromosome Compaction and Cohesion; J. Bernardino-Sgherri, D. Flagiello and B. Dutrillaux
Chapter 4.7. Constitutive Heterochromatin of Microtus agrestis: Molecular Organization and Genetic Activity in Mitotic and Meiotic Cells; Karl Sperling, Sabine Henschel, Ilka Schulze and Heidemarie Neitzel Part 5. Plant Cytogenetics
Chapter 5.1. FISHing Repeated DNA Sequences in Beta Genomes; T. Schmidt, C. Desel, D. Dechyeva, B. Fleischer, F. Gindullis, A. Schmidt, J.S. Heslop-Harrison and R.L. Doudrick
Chapter 5.2. Interphase Cytogenetics in Plants; I. Schubert, Z. Jasencakova, A. Meister, R. Fransz and M. Lysak