Chromosomes Today

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

This volume of "Chromosomes Today" provides up-to-date information regarding relevant aspects of the genetic regulation, the chromosomes imprinting, the DNA duplication, the meiotic pairing, the regulation of the cell cycle and cell division and also some applicative aspects like the role of the chromosome aberrations in cancer. This book should of interest for a wide spectrum of researchers and professionals in the biological science and medicine.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-05-01
Mått:170 x 244 x 28 mm
Vikt:784 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Birkhauser Verlag AG
ISBN:9783764357993

Utforska kategorier

Cellbiologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Anatomi inom Medicin
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

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 xFestuca pratensis hybrids.- Smallness: gain and loss in plant chromosome research.- Conclusion.- The future of chromosomes.- Synonymous words.