Preface: Benavente, R.; Volff, J.-N.; The Meiotic Recombination Hotspots of Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Pryce, D.W.; McFarlane, R.J.; Meiotic Recombination and Crossovers in Plants: De Muyt, A.; Mercier, R.; Mezard, C.; Grelon, M.; Meiosis in Cereal Crops: the Grasses are Back: Martinez-Perez, E.; Homologue Pairing, Recombination and Segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans: Zetka, M.; Homolog Pairing and Segregation in Drosophila Meiosis: McKee, B.D.; The Mammalian Synaptonemal Complex: A Scaffold and Beyond: Yang, F.; Wang, P.J.; The Dance Floor of Meiosis: Evolutionary Conservation of Nuclear Envelope Attachment and Dynamics of Meiotic Telomeres: Alsheimer, M.; Cohesin Complexes and Sister Chromatid Cohesion in Mammalian Meiosis: Suja, J.A.; Barbero, J.L.; Variation in Patterns of Human Meiotic Recombination: Khil, P.P.; Camerini-Otero, R.D.; Maternal Origin of the Human Aneuploidies. Are Homolog Synapsis and Recombination to Blame? Notes (Learned) from the Underbelly: Garcia-Cruz, R.; Roig, I.; Garcia Caldes, M.; Inverted Meiosis: The True Bugs as a Model to Study: Viera, A.; Page, J.; Rufas, J.S.; Author Index; Subject Index.