1. Foreword

   • Gauthier Dobigny
   • Fengtang Yang

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 1 - 4

2. Addressing chromosome evolution in the whole-genome sequence era

   • Thomas Faraut

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 5 - 16

3. Primate chromosome evolution: Ancestral karyotypes, marker order and neocentromeres

   • R. Stanyon
   • M. Rocchi
   • N. Archidiacono

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 17 - 39

4. Molecular mechanisms of chromosomal rearrangement during primate evolution

   • Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki
   • David N. Cooper

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 41 - 56

5. Chromosomal phylogeny and evolution of the African mole-rats (Bathyergidae)

   • J. L. Deuve
   • N. C. Bennett
   • T. J. Robinson

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 57 - 74

6. Chromosomal phylogeny of four Akodontini species (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Southern Brazil established by Zoo-FISH using Mus musculus (Muridae) painting probes

   • Iris Hass
   • Ives José Sbalqueiro
   • Stefan Müller

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 75 - 88

7. Multidirectional cross-species painting illuminates the history of karyotypic evolution in Perissodactyla

   • Vladimir A. Trifonov
   • Roscoe Stanyon
   • Fengtang Yang

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 89 - 107

8. The Horse Genome Derby: racing from map to whole genome sequence

   • Bhanu P. Chowdhary
   • Terje Raudsepp

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 109 - 127

9. Phylogenomics of the dog and fox family (Canidae, Carnivora) revealed by chromosome painting

   • Alexander S. Graphodatsky
   • Polina L. Perelman
   • Fengtang Yang

   OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 129 - 143

10. Evolutionarily conserved cytogenetic changes in hematological malignancies of dogs and humans – man and his best friend share more than companionship

    • Matthew Breen
    • Jaime F. Modiano

    OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 145 - 154

11. Comparative cytogenetics of bats (Chiroptera): The prevalence of Robertsonian translocations limits the power of chromosomal characters in resolving interfamily phylogenetic relationships

    • Xiuguang Mao
    • Wenhui Nie
    • Fengtang Yang

    OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 155 - 170

12. Characterization of chromosome structures of Falconinae (Falconidae, Falconiformes, Aves) by chromosome painting and delineation of chromosome rearrangements during their differentiation

    • Chizuko Nishida
    • Junko Ishijima
    • Yoichi Matsuda

    OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 171 - 181

13. Evolutionary cytogenetics in salamanders

    • Stanley K. Sessions

    OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 183 - 201

14. Transposable elements as drivers of genomic and biological diversity in vertebrates

    • Astrid Böhne
    • Frédéric Brunet
    • Jean-Nicolas Volff

    OriginalPaper 25 February 2008 Pages: 203 - 215