Istituto di Biologia e Genetica, Ancona, Italy. Proceedings of the 13th International Chromosome Conference, held in Ancona and Numana, Italy, on September 8-12, 1998. Covers aspects of the studies of chromosomes. For researchers and professionals in biological science and medicine.
List of contributors
ix
Dedication
xxi
Preface
xxiii
Introduction
Chromosomes yesterday: a century of chromosome studies
3
(22)
Ernesto Capanna
Part one: Chromosome organisation
The prometaphase bands of human chromosomes: compositional features and gene distribution
25
(4)
Giorgio Bernardi
Concetta Federico
Salvatore Saccone
The functional and structural organization of Drosophila heterochromatin
29
(16)
Sergio Pimpinelli
RNA, genes, genomes and chromosomes: repetitive DNA sequences in plants
45
(12)
J.S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison
Color plates I-VII
Non-B DNA structures spatially and sequence-specifically associated with individual centromeres in the human interphase nucleus
57
(16)
Mizuki Ohno
Toyoaki Tenzen
Yoshihisa Watanabe
Tetsushi Yamagata
Shigehiko Kanaya
Toshimichi Ikemura
Part two: Chromosome function and behaviour
Chromosomes in mitosis: chance and checkpoint
73
(6)
R. Bruce Nicklas
Genetic control of B chromosome transmission in maize and rye
79
(14)
Maria J. Puertas
Guillermo Jimenez
Silvia Manzanero
Mauricio A. Chiavarino
Marcela Rosato
Carlos A. Naranjo
Lidia Poggio
Igf2 imprinting in development and disease
93
(14)
Wolf Reik
M. Constancia
W. Dean
K. Davies
L. Bowden
A. Murrell
R. Feil
J. Walter
G. Kelsey
Part three: Meiosis
Seeing meiotic chromosomes without seeing them
107
(16)
Nancy Kleckner
Meiosis in budding yeast and in multicellular eukaryotes--similarities and differences
123
(16)
Josef Loidl
Meiotic pairing sites and genes involved in segregation of the X and Y chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster
139
(16)
Bruce D. McKee
Chia-sin Hong
Siuk Yoo
Part four: Chromosome evolution
Genome evolution in Triticeae
155
(14)
Belen Maestra
Tomas Naranjo
Karyotypic evolution in Neotropical freshwater fish
169
(14)
Lurdes F. de Almeida-Toledo
Fausto Foresti
Silvio de A. Toledo-Filho
Repetitive DNA as a tool to study the phylogeny of cold-blooded vertebrates
183
(12)
Teresa Capriglione
Comparative gene mapping permits new insights into karyotype evolution in mammals
195
(12)
Gunther Rettenberger
Walther Vogel
Horst Hameister
Color plates VIII-X
Part five: Medical and cancer cytogenetics
Chromosome and gene alterations in human cancers in relation to aging
207
(18)
Bernard H. Dutrillaux
Xp contiguous gene syndromes: from clinical observation to disease gene identification
225
(20)
Brunella Franco
Andrea Ballabio
Genetic and cytogenetic studies in inherited cancer: Li-Fraumeni syndrome
245
(14)
Jennifer M. Varley
John M. Boyle
Louise A. James
Gail McGown
Mary Thorncroft
Martin Greaves
Anna M. Kelsey
D. Gareth R. Evans
Jillian M. Birch
Color plates XI-XVIII
Part six: Mapping and new methods
Comparative chromosome painting
259
(8)
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
Patricia C.M. O'Brien
Willem Rens
Fengtang Yang
High resolution FISH reveals the molecular and chromosomal organisation of repetitive sequences of individual tomato chromosomes
267
(10)
J. Hans de Jong
X.-B. Zhong
P.F. Fransz
J. Wennekes-van Eden
E. Jacobsen
P. Zabel
Species relationships, introgression and physical mapping in Lolium perenne x Festuca pratensis hybrids
277
(10)
Ian P. King
W.G. Morgan
I.P. Armstead
J. King
T.A.H. Jones
J.V. Nash
R.N. Jones
J.A. Harper
L.A. Roberts
Steve Taylor
H.M. Thomas
Smallness: gain and loss in plant chromosome research
287
(18)
Kiichi Fukui
Nobuko Ohmido
Toshiyuki Wako
Conclusion
The future of chromosomes
305
(10)
Herbert C. Macgregor
Subject Index
315
(5)
Synonymous words
320
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