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Special issue: Molecular Cytogenetics: Karyotype evolution, Phylogenomics and Future Prospects Professor Terence J Robinson, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and Dr Fengtang Yang, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom This special issue reflects the intersection between molecular cytogenetics and comparative genomics and emphasizes their use to confirm and refine syntenies, identify breakpoints, neocentromeres and other chromosomal features that are responsible for the myriad of karyotypes that characterize biological lineages. It features papers that discuss chromosomal diversification at different phylogenetic levels and presents new and exciting insights to some of the molecular mechanisms that are thought to underpin the structural modification of karyotypes (including the evolution of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation in amniotes), and new technologies that may impact on the precision by which we identify and characterize chromosomal rearrangements in future. TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 108, Issue 1 (January 2012) In this issue Special Issue Also new AOP Sign up for e-alerts Recommend to your library Web feed Subscribe Advertisement CROSS PATHS WITH A HYBRID RAGWORT! Listen to the September edition of the Heredity podcast and cross paths with a hybrid Ragwort and go in search of bighorn sheep's 'horny' genes. The podcast is available Free online   Molecular cytogenetics: karyotype evolution, phylogenomics and future prospects T J Robinson and F Yang Heredity 2012 108: 1-3; 10.1038/hdy.2011.117 Abstract | Full text Chromosomal evolution in Rodentia S A Romanenko, P L Perelman, V A Trifonov and A S Graphodatsky Heredity 2012 108: 4-16; advance online publication, November 16, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.110 Abstract | Full Text Chromosomal rearrangements and karyotype evolution in carnivores revealed by chromosome painting W Nie, J Wang, W Su, D Wang, A Tanomtong, P L Perelman, A S Graphodatsky and F Yang Heredity 2012 108: 17-27; advance online publication, November 16, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.107 Abstract | Full Text Molecular cytogenetic and genomic insights into chromosomal evolution A Ruiz-Herrera, M Farré and T J Robinson Heredity 2012 108: 28-36; advance online publication, November 23, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.102 Abstract | Full Text Intrachromosomal rearrangements in avian genome evolution: evidence for regions prone to breakpoints B M Skinner and D K Griffin Heredity 2012 108: 37-41; advance online publication, November 2, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.99 Abstract | Full Text Making a long story short: noncoding RNAs and chromosome change J D Brown, S E Mitchell and R J O'Neill Heredity 2012 108: 42-49; advance online publication, November 9, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.104 Abstract | Full Text The origin and evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes and dosage compensation A M Livernois, J A M Graves and P D Waters Heredity 2012 108: 50-58; advance online publication, November 16, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.106 Abstract | Full Text Centromere repositioning in mammals M Rocchi, N Archidiacono, W Schempp, O Capozzi and R Stanyon Heredity 2012 108: 59-67; advance online publication, November 2, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.101 Abstract | Full Text Chromosomal dynamics of nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) in the house mouse: micro-evolutionary insights J Britton-Davidian, B Cazaux and J Catalan Heredity 2012 108: 68-74; advance online publication, November 16, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.105 Abstract | Full Text Characterising chromosome rearrangements: recent technical advances in molecular cytogenetics S Le Scouarnec and S M Gribble Heredity 2012 108: 75-85; advance online publication, November 16, 2011; 10.1038/hdy.2011.100 Abstract | Full Text Advertisement Open access in Heredity An open access option is available to all authors of original research papers that are accepted for publication in Heredity. 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