1. European Meiosis Meetings since 1990: cytology meets genetics in model organisms

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 2

2. Hanging on to your homolog: the roles of pairing, synapsis and recombination in the maintenance of homolog adhesion

   • Michelle Y. Walker
   • R. Scott Hawley

   Chromosoma Focus Pages: 3 - 9

3. Sister chromatid cohesion and recombination in meiosis

   • Diana van Heemst
   • Christa Heyting

   Chromosoma Focus Pages: 10 - 26

4. Destruction of the securin Pds1p occurs at the onset of anaphase during both meiotic divisions in yeast

   • Suhal-Maria Salah
   • Kim Nasmyth

   Original Articles Pages: 27 - 34

5. Meiotic sister chromatid cohesion in holocentric sex chromosomes of three heteropteran species is maintained in absence of axial elements

   • José A. Suja
   • Angel L. del Cerro
   • Juan L. Santos

   Pages: 35 - 43

6. mei-41 is required for precocious anaphase in Drosophila females

   • K. S. McKim
   • J. K. Jang
   • R. Scott Hawley

   Pages: 44 - 49

7. Cloning and characterization of the Kluyveromyces lactis homologs of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RED1 and HOP1 genes

   • Albert V. Smith
   • G. Shirleen Roeder

   Pages: 50 - 61

8. A homologue of the yeast HOP1 gene is inactivated in the Arabidopsis meiotic mutant asy1

   • Anthony P. Caryl
   • Susan J. Armstrong
   • F. Christopher H. Franklin

   Pages: 62 - 71

9. Spo1, a phospholipase B homolog, is required for spindle pole body duplication during meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Gela G. Tevzadze
   • Hewson Swift
   • Rochelle Easton Esposito

   Pages: 72 - 85

10. Meiotic recombination in RAD54 mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • Jacqueline Schmuckli-Maurer
    • Wolf-Dietrich Heyer

    Pages: 86 - 93

11. EXO1 and MSH4 differentially affect crossing-over and segregation

    • Kamal A. Khazanehdari
    • Rhona H. Borts

    Pages: 94 - 102

12. Characterization of fission yeast meiotic mutants based on live observation of meiotic prophase nuclear movement

    • Yasushi Hiraoka
    • Da-Qiao Ding
    • Yuji Chikashige

    Pages: 103 - 109

13. Methods for immunoelectron microscopic and fine structural analysis of synaptonemal complexes and nodules in yeast

    • Karin Schmekel

    Pages: 110 - 116

14. Fate of meiotic lamin C2 in rat spermatocytes cultured in the presence of okadaic acid

    • Elisabeth von Glasenapp
    • Ricardo Benavente

    Pages: 117 - 122

15. Localisation of RAD50 and MRE11 in spermatocyte nuclei of mouse and rat

    • Maureen Eijpe
    • Hildo Offenberg
    • Christa Heyting

    Pages: 123 - 132

16. Identification and characterization of an SPO11 homolog in the mouse

    • Catherine Metzler-Guillemain
    • Bernard de Massy

    Pages: 133 - 138

17. Distribution of Atr protein in primary spermatocytes of a mouse chromosomal mutant: a comparison of preparation techniques

    • Esther B. Baart
    • Dirk G. de Rooij
    • Peter de Boer

    Pages: 139 - 147

18. The Su(Hw) chromatin insulator protein alters double-strand break repair frequencies in the Drosophila germ line

    • Dirk-Henner Lankenau
    • Mario V. Peluso
    • Susanne Lankenau

    Pages: 148 - 160