Chromosomes Today: Volume 14

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mammalian Sex Chromosome Evolution — The Rise and Fall of the Y Chromosome....Pages 3-14
Avian Sex Chromosomes and Sex-Linked Genes....Pages 15-26
 DMRT Genes and Sex Determination in Medaka....Pages 27-37
Evolution of the Y Chromosome in Primates....Pages 39-43
The Male Hypermethylation (MHM) Region on the Chicken Z Chromosome: Female-Specific Transcription and its Biological Implication....Pages 45-53
Neo-X and Neo-Y Chromosomes in Drosophila miranda ....Pages 55-63
The X Chromosome Plays a Special Role During Speciation....Pages 65-71
Sex Chromosome Evolution: Evidence from Fish, Fly and Moth Species....Pages 73-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Expression and Chromatin Binding Specificity of Ki-67 in Male and Female Meiosis of the Mouse....Pages 85-91
Conservation and Variability of Meiotic Processes — Lessons from the Unconventional Meiosis of C. elegans ....Pages 93-101
Meiotic Chromosomes and Meiotic Mechanisms....Pages 103-118
The Nuclear Envelope at the Attachment Sites of Mammalian Meiotic Telomeres....Pages 119-126
Interphase Cytogenetics in Understanding Chromosome and Telomere Dynamics During Prophase I: Implications for Meiotic Telomere Movements....Pages 127-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Molecular Cytogenetics in the Study of Cancer....Pages 151-155
Chromosomal Translocations in Leukaemia: Emerging Networks....Pages 157-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The EVO-DEVO of Pericentromeric DNA in the Mouse....Pages 171-185
New Developments in Multicolour Fluorescence in situ Hybridization....Pages 187-196
Artificial Chromosomes — Past, Present and Future....Pages 197-205
Differential Demethylation of Paternal and Maternal Genomes in the Preimplantation Mouse Embryo: Implications for Mammalian Development....Pages 207-214
Integrated Comparative Genome Maps and Their Implications for Karyotype Evolution of Carnivores....Pages 215-224
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Complex Relationships Between DNA Methylation Status and Chromosome Compaction and Cohesion....Pages 225-234
Constitutive Heterochromatin of Microtus agrestis : Molecular Organization and Genetic Activity in Mitotic and Meiotic Cells....Pages 235-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
FISHing Repeated DNA Sequences in Beta Genomes....Pages 249-265
Interphase Cytogenetics in Plants....Pages 267-274