1. Foreword

   Foreword Pages: 1 - 1

2. Acknowledgements

   Announcement Pages: 2 - 2

3. Introduction Shedding New Light on the Dark Corners of the Nucleus

   • Joel C. Eissenberg
   • Arthur J. Hilliker

   Introduction Pages: 3 - 6

4. Reaching for New Heitz

   • Steven Henikoff
   • Joel C. Eissenberg
   • Lori L. Wallrath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 8

5. Essential Genes in Autosomal Heterochromatin of Drosophila Melanogaster

   • D.A.R. Sinclair
   • S. Schulze
   • B.M. Honda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 18

6. Versatility of Conviction: Heterochromatin as Both a Repressor and an Activator of Transcription

   • Joel C. Eissenberg
   • Arthur J. Hilliker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 24

7. Drosophila Telomeric Transgenes Provide Insights on Mechanisms of Gene Silencing

   • Lori L. Wallrath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 33

8. Parental Imprinting in Drosophila

   • Vett Lloyd

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

9. Drosophila Telomere Transposons: Genetically Active Elements in Heterochromatin

   • M.-L. Pardue
   • P.G. DeBaryshe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 52

10. Impact of Multiple Insertions of two Retroelements, ZAM and Idefix at an Euchromatic Locus

    • Caroline Conte
    • Valérie Calco
    • Chantal Vaury

    OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 59

11. Control of Telomere Elongation and Telomeric Silencing in Drosophila Melanogaster

    • James M. Mason
    • Abdelali Haoudi
    • Harald Biessmann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 70

12. Searching for a Common Centromeric Structural Motif: Drosophila Centromeric Satellite DNAs Show Propensity to form Telomeric-Like Unusual DNA Structures

    • José P. Abad
    • Alfredo Villasante

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 75

13. On the Roles of Heterochromatin and Euchromatin in Meiosis in Drosophila: Mapping Chromosomal Pairing Sites and Testing Candidate Mutations for Effects on X–Y Nondisjunction and Meiotic Drive in Male Meiosis

    • Bruce D. McKee
    • Chia-sin Hong
    • Suchita Das

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 93

14. Chromosomally-Induced Meiotic Drive in Drosophila Males: Checkpoint or Fallout?

    • John E. Tomkiel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 103

15. Common Mechanisms of Y Chromosome Evolution

    • Manfred Steinemann
    • Sigrid Steinemann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 111

16. Molecular Aspects of Intron Evolution in Dynein Encoding Mega-Genes on The Heterochromatic Y Chromosome of Drosophila sp.

    • Roman Kurek
    • Alexander M. Reugels
    • Hans Bünemann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 123

17. Evolution of DNA in Heterochromatin: the Drosophila Melanogaster Sibling Species Subgroup as a Resource

    • Allan R. Lohe
    • Paul A. Roberts

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 130

18. Paralogous Stellate

    • Vladimir A. Gvozdev
    • Galina L. Kogan
    • Yury Y. Shevelyov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 140

19. A Trans-Activator on the Drosophila Y Chromosome Regulates Gene Expression in the Male Germ Line

    • Ping Zhang
    • Benjamin Timakov
    • Ismail Y. Turgut

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 150