Chromosomes Today: Volume 8 Proceedings of the Eighth International Chromosome Conference held in Lübeck, West Germnay, 21–24 September 1983

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
C. D. Darlington — in memoriam ....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Sorting, cloning and analysis of specific human chromosomes....Pages 15-22
High resolution linkage map of human chromosome 11p....Pages 23-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Z — DNA and chromosome structure....Pages 34-45
Centromeric DNA in yeast....Pages 46-58
Telomeres and artificial chromosomes in yeast....Pages 59-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Genic control of meiosis....Pages 70-79
Application of the spreading techniques to structural heterozygotes....Pages 80-89
Synapsis, synaptic adjustment and DNA synthesis in mouse oocytes....Pages 90-103
The synaptonemal complex in chromosome pairing and disjunction....Pages 104-116
X-inactivation and its role in male sterility....Pages 117-127
Age-related aneuploidy and its aetiology — testing some of the hypotheses....Pages 128-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Chromosomes and cancer: chromatin’s re-awakening....Pages 138-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Balbiani ring genes and their induction....Pages 153-160
Active genes and puffs....Pages 161-168
Mapping of genetic activity on mammalian chromosomes....Pages 169-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Ordered arrangement of chromosomes in wheat....Pages 181-189
Towards a general model for spatial law and order in nuclear and karyotypic architecture....Pages 190-202
Correlation between interphase and metaphase chromosome arrangements as studied by laser-uv-microbeam experiments....Pages 203-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Chromosomal evolution, speciation and morphological change in vertebrates: the role of social behaviour....Pages 215-228
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
DNA family turnover and the coevolution of chromosomes....Pages 229-240
The evolution of sex chromosomes and their consequences for the evolutionary process....Pages 241-255
The evolutionary consequence of major genomic changes in Amphibia....Pages 256-267
Linkage group conservation and the notion of 24 primordial vertebrate linkage groups....Pages 268-278
Explosive chromosomal speciation in seismic active regions....Pages 279-294
Abstracts of Selected Posters....Pages 295-354
Back Matter....Pages 356-370