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

C. D. Darlington — In Memoriam.- Molecular Cytogenetics.- Sorting, Cloning and Analysis of Specific Human Chromosomes.- High Resolution Linkage Map of Human Chromosome llp.- Molecular Organisation of the Chromosome.- Z-DNA and Chromosome Structure.- Centromeric DNA in Yeast.- Telomeres and Artificial Chromosomes in Yeast.- Meiosis.- Genic Control of Meiosis.- Application of the Spreading Techniques to Structural Heterozygotes.- Synapsis, Synaptic Adjustment and DNA Synthesis in Mouse Oocytes.- The Synaptonemal Complex in Chromosome Pairing and Disjunction.- X-Inactivation and Its Role in Male Sterility.- Age-Related Aneuploidy and Its Aetiology — Testing Some of the Hypotheses.- Chromosomes and Cancer.- Chromosomes and Cancer: Chromatin’s Re-Awakening.- Structure and Function of Chromosomes.- Balbiani Ring Genes and Their Induction.- Active Genes and Puffs.- Mapping of Genetic Activity on Mammalian Chromosomes.- Spatial Order of Chromosomes.- Ordered Arrangement of Chromosomes in Wheat.- Towards a General Model for Spatial Law and Order in Nuclear and Karyotypic Architecture.- Correlation Between Interphase and Metaphase Chromosome Arrangements as Studied by Laser-Uv-Microbeam Experiments.- Chromosomes and Evolution.- Chromosomal Evolution, Speciation and Morphological Change in Vertebrates: The Role of Social Behaviour.- DNA Family Turnover and the Coevolution of Chromosomes.- The Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and Their Consequences for the Evolutionary Process.- The Evolutionary Consequence of Major Genomic Changes in Amphibia.- Linkage Group Conservation and the Notion of 24 Primordial Vertebrate Linkage Groups.- Explosive Chromosomal Speciation in Seismic Active Regions.- Abstracts of Selected Posters.- Author Index.