Chromosomes Today

Chromosomes yesterday: a century of chromosome studies.- one: Chromosome organisation.- The prometaphase bands of human chromosomes: compositional features and gene distribution.- The functional and structural organization of Drosophilaheterochromatin.- RNA, genes, genomes and chromosomes: repetitive DNA sequences in plants.- Color plates.- Non-B DNA structures spatially and sequence-specifically associated with individual centromeres in the human interphase nucleus.- two: Chromosome function and behaviour.- Chromosomes in mitosis: chance and checkpoint.- Genetic control of B chromosome transmission in maize and rye.- Igf2 imprinting in development and disease.- three: Meiosis.- Seeing meiotic chromosomes without seeing them.- Meiosis in budding yeast and in multicellular eukaryotes — similarities and differences.- Meiotic pairing sites and genes involved in segregation of the X and Y chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster.- four: Chromosome evolution.- Genome evolution in Triticeae.- Karyotypic evolution in Neotropical freshwater fish.- Repetitive DNA as a tool to study the phylogeny of cold-blooded vertebrates.- Comparative gene mapping permits new insights into karyotype evolution in mammals.- Color plates.- five: Medical and cancer cytogenetics.- Chromosome and gene alterations in human cancers in relation to aging.- Xp contiguous gene syndromes: from clinical observation to disease gene identification.- Genetic and cytogenetic studies in inherited cancer: Li-Fraumeni syndrome.- Color plates.- six: Mapping and new methods.- Comparative chromosome painting.- High resolution FISH reveals the molecular and chromosomal organisation of repetitive sequences of individual tomato chromosomes.- Species relationships, introgression and physical mapping in Lolium perenne x Festuca pratensis hybrids.- Smallness: gain and loss in plant chromosome research.- Conclusion.- The future of chromosomes.- Synonymous words.