1. Foreword: the centromere and kinetochore in creatures great and small

   • Rachel J. O’Neill
   • Beth A. Sullivan

   EditorialNotes 17 July 2012 Pages: 461 - 463

2. The CENP-A nucleosome: a dynamic structure and role at the centromere

   • Delphine Quénet
   • Yamini Dalal

   OriginalPaper 24 July 2012 Pages: 465 - 479

   

3. Temporal control of epigenetic centromere specification

   • Luis P. Valente
   • Mariana C. C. Silva
   • Lars E. T. Jansen

   OriginalPaper 28 June 2012 Pages: 481 - 492

   

4. Evolutionary insights into the role of the essential centromere protein CAL1 in Drosophila

   • Ragini Phansalkar
   • Pascal Lapierre
   • Barbara G. Mellone

   OriginalPaper 21 July 2012 Pages: 493 - 504

   

5. HACking the centromere chromatin code: insights from human artificial chromosomes

   • Jan H. Bergmann
   • Nuno M. C. Martins
   • William C. Earnshaw

   OriginalPaper 24 July 2012 Pages: 505 - 519

   

6. Centromeric heterochromatin assembly in fission yeast—balancing transcription, RNA interference and chromatin modification

   • Benjamin J. Alper
   • Brandon R. Lowe
   • Janet F. Partridge

   OriginalPaper 26 June 2012 Pages: 521 - 534

   

7. Pericentric and centromeric transcription: a perfect balance required

   • Laura E. Hall
   • Sarah E. Mitchell
   • Rachel J. O’Neill

   OriginalPaper 04 July 2012 Pages: 535 - 546

   

8. Establishment of the vertebrate kinetochores

   • Tetsuya Hori
   • Tatsuo Fukagawa

   OriginalPaper 26 June 2012 Pages: 547 - 561

   

9. Maturation of the kinetochore-microtubule interface and the meaning of metaphase

   • António J. Pereira
   • Helder Maiato

   OriginalPaper 17 July 2012 Pages: 563 - 577

   

10. Holocentric chromosomes: convergent evolution, meiotic adaptations, and genomic analysis

    • Daniël P. Melters
    • Leocadia V. Paliulis
    • Simon W. L. Chan

    OriginalPaper 06 July 2012 Pages: 579 - 593

    

11. Dicentric chromosomes: unique models to study centromere function and inactivation

    • Kaitlin M. Stimpson
    • Justyne E. Matheny
    • Beth A. Sullivan

    OriginalPaper 17 July 2012 Pages: 595 - 605

    

12. Neocentromeres and epigenetically inherited features of centromeres

    • Laura S. Burrack
    • Judith Berman

    OriginalPaper 22 June 2012 Pages: 607 - 619

    

13. Human centromere genomics: now it's personal

    • Karen E. Hayden

    OriginalPaper 17 July 2012 Pages: 621 - 633

    

14. Centromeres of filamentous fungi

    • Kristina M. Smith
    • Jonathan M. Galazka
    • Michael Freitag

    OriginalPaper 03 July 2012 Pages: 635 - 656