1. Tribute to Professors Janny van Brink and Bostian Kiauta

   • Leobert E. M. de Boer

   Announcement Pages: V - VI

2. Publishers' preface

   • Kluwer Academic Publishers

   EditorialNotes Pages: VII - VII

3. Prediction of mammalian meiotic synaptic and recombinational behavior of inversion heterozygotes based on mitotic breakpoint data and the possible evolutionary consequences

   • T. Ashley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 7

4. Evolution of a telomere associated satellite DNA sequence in the genome ofDrosophila tristis and related species

   • L. Bachmann
   • M. Raab
   • D. Sperlich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 16

5. A miscellaneous collection of bird karyotypes

   • R. H. R. Belterman
   • L. E. M. De Boer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 29

6. Postmating reproductive isolation and modification of the ‘sex ratio’ trait inDrosophila subobscura induced by the sex chromosome gene arrangement A_2+3+5+7

   • E. Hauschteck-Jungen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 44

7. A comparative study of chiasmata in male and femaleBettongia penicillata (Marsupialia)

   • D. L. Hayman
   • M. J. Smith
   • J. C. Rodger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 49

8. Short-term culture of spleen lymphocytes for chromosome analysis of small rodents

   • M. Jotterand Bellomo
   • D. Mühlematter
   • M. Nabholz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 60

9. Prenatal diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities

   • M. Murer-Orlando
   • L. Zahed
   • Z. Docherty

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 65

10. Chromosomal and molecular evolution in Asiatic wild asses

    • O. A. Ryder
    • L. G. Chemnick

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 72

11. Localization of phaseolin genes in the polytene chromosomes ofPhaseolus coccineus (Leguminosae)

    • K. Schumann
    • A. Baumann
    • W. Nagl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 76

12. Karyotypes ofMegaselia scalaris (Diptera) wild-type and translocation strains

    • W. Traut
    • Nguyen thi Khuong
    • S. Schneider

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 84

13. Sex chromosome evolution in reptiles: divergence between two lizards long regarded as sister species,Lacerta vivipara andLacerta andreanskyi

    • V. Volobouev
    • G. Pasteur
    • B. Dutrillaux

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 91