Chromosomes Today
Published on 6. May 1982
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXVI, 310 pages
978-94-010-9162-6 (ISBN)
Description
The first Oxford Chromosome Conference, as many will know, was organised by C. D. Darlington and K. R, Lewis and held in the Botany School in July, 1964. Its purpose was to bring together a repres entative international group of those concerned with the study of chromosomes, whatever their organism, methods and objective, in the confident expectation that all would profit by learning about the interests, ideas and discoveries of others whose work might other wise not come to their attention. No similar gathering had been attempted before; because of the wide range of biological cont exts in which chromosome study is relevent, spoken accounts of new research were scattered over many different meetings (and written reports over even more different periodicals). At the time of the first Conference the mechanics of trans mission and recombination were, of course, already well understood in their essential features, although a cloud of mystery still hung over the basis of spindle function and the nature of the centromere. At that time also chromosome study had long been est ablished as a valuable aid to the taxonomist and student of evolu tion on the one hand and the plant breeder on the other. But the new sophistication in the use of biochemical and biophysical methods had only just started to make its impact on our knowledge of chromosome organisation and behaviour.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XXVI, 310 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-94-010-9162-6 (9789401091626)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-9160-2
Other editions
Additional editions
M. D. Bennett | etc.
Chromosomes Today: v. 7
Book
12/1981
Kluwer Academic Publishers
€109.28
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Content
Chromosomes and Organisms: The Evolutionary Paradoxes.- Chromosome Organisation at the Molecular Level.- DNA Sequence Organisation and Repeat Sequences.- Gene Amplification and Methotrexate Resistance in Cultured Cells.- Satellite DNA - Change and Stability.- Molecular Changes in Chromosomal DNA Organisation and Origins of Phenotypic Variation.- Mapping the Human Genome by Analysing the DNA.- In Situ Hybridization to Lampbrush Chromosomes.- Nucleolar Organisers in Mammalian Cells.- Proposed Structural Principles of Polytene Chromosomes.- Mobile DNA Sequences in Drosophila.- Chromosomes in Meiosis.- Chromosome Organization and DNA Metabolism in Meiotic Cells.- Synaptonemal Complexes - Origin and Fate.- Meiotic Exchange Analysis by Molecular Labelling.- Population Cytogenetics.- Heterochromatin Variation in Natural Populations.- Chromosome Manipulations for Insect Pest Control.- Chromosomes and Speciation.- Homosequential Species of Hawaiian Drosophila.- Chromosome Architecture of the Parthenogenetic Grasshopper Warramaba Virgo and its Bisexual Ancestors.- Chromosomal Evolution in Primates.- Chromosomes and Plant Breeding.- Chromosome Manipulation in Wheat.- Plant Cell Hybrids and Somatic Hybrid Plants.- Chromosomes and Malignant Change.- Inherited Chromosome Instability in Man - Abstract.- The Role of Chromosomes in Tumoricity.- Induced Chromosome Variation.- Induced Chromosome Variation.- Dna Repair and its Consequences in Cultured Mammalian Cells.- Human Cytogenetics.- H-Y Antigen and Sex Determination in Mammals.- The Origin of Chromosome Abnormalities in Man.- Chromosome Structural Rearrangements and Reproductive Failure.- Karyotype/Phenotype Correlations.