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