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Chromosomes yesterday: a century of chromosome studies

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Chromosomes Today

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When the organising committee of the thirteenth chromosome conference asked me to prepare the opening lecture, I realised that it would be the last one this century. In fact the next one will be held at the beginning of the third millennium A.D., in 2001. While thinking along these lines it occurred to me just how important this century has been in the development of cytogenetics!

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Capanna, E. (2000). Chromosomes yesterday: a century of chromosome studies. In: Olmo, E., Redi, C.A. (eds) Chromosomes Today. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8484-6_1

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