Abstract
Since the eighties of nineteenth century, when Flemming and others discovered the mitotic and meiotic cycle and Waldeyer (1888) coined the term “chromosome”, chromosome research was performed for one century mainly on mitotic and meiotic chromosomes. During this period cytogeneticists accumulated broad knowledge on species-specific karyotypes and on the structural features of chromosomes in their highly condensed “transport” from. The development of non-radioactive in situ hybridization techniques during the 1980s together with facilities to isolate specific chromosomes allowed to study defined chromosomes and chromosome domains also during interphase when essential processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair take place. In particular “chromosome painting” developed by Pinkel et al. (1988) and Lichter et al., (1988), enabled to address and to investigate individual chromosome territories within cell nuclei.
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Schubert, I., Jasencakova, Z., Meister, A., Fransz, P., Lysak, M. (2004). Interphase Cytogenetics in Plants. In: Schmid, M., Nanda, I. (eds) Chromosomes Today. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1033-6_24
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