Expanding the Boundaries of Heterochromatin Sergio PimpinelliBarbara T. Wakimoto Introduction Pages: 111 - 116
Analysing the Contribution of Nucleic Acids to the Structure and Properties of Centric Heterochromatin Alfred CortésDori HuertasFernando Azorín OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 125
HP1/ORC Complex and Heterochromatin Assembly Mohammed M. ShareefRamaKrishna BaduguRebecca Kellum OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 134
Chromosomal Distribution of Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) in Drosophila: a Cytological Map of Euchromatic HP1 Binding Sites Laura FantiMaria BerlocoSergio Pimpinelli OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 147
SU(VAR)3-9 is a Conserved Key Function in Heterochromatic Gene Silencing Gunnar SchottaAnja EbertGunter Reuter OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 158
The Sounds of Silence – Histone Deacetylation Meets hisTone Methylation Birgit CzerminAxel Imhof OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 164
The Modifier of mdg4 Locus in Drosophila: Functional Complexity is Resolved by trans Splicing Rainer DornVeiko Krauss OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 177
Dosage Dependent Gene Regulation and the Compensation of the X Chromosome in Drosophila Males James A. BirchlerManika Pal-BhadraUtpal Bhadra OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 190
Assembly of Polycomb Complexes and Silencing Mechanisms Vincenzo PirrottaSylvain PouxMaxim Pilyugin OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 197
Composite cis-Acting Epigenetic Switches in Eukaryotes: Lessons from Drosophila Fab-7 for the Igf2–H19 Imprinted Domain Jeremy P. BrownPrim B. SinghIan G. Cowell OriginalPaper Pages: 199 - 207
Vital Genes in the Heterochromatin of Chromosomes 2 and 3 of Drosophila Melanogaster Patrizio DimitriNicoletta CorradiniDmitry E. Koryakov OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 215
A Strategy for Mapping the Heterochromatin of Chromosome 2 of Drosophila Melanogaster Jiro C. YasuharaMarcella MarchettiBarbara T. Wakimoto OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 226
Y Chromosome and Other Heterochromatic Sequences of the Drosophila Melanogaster Genome: How Far can we go? A. Bernardo CarvalhoMaria D. VibranovskiAndrew G. Clark OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 237
Stellate Repeats: Targets of Silencing and Modules Causing cis-Inactivation and trans-Activation Vladimir A. GvozdevAlexei A. AravinVasili V. Vagin OriginalPaper Pages: 239 - 245
Structure, Regulation and Evolution of the Crystal–Stellate System of Drosophila Patrizia TrittoValeria SpecchiaMaria Pia Bozzetti OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 257
Intercalary Heterochromatin in Drosophila Melanogaster Polytene Chromosomes and the Problem of Genetic Silencing Igor F. ZhimulevElena S. BelyaevaRoman A. Nanayev OriginalPaper Pages: 259 - 270
Imprinted Facultative Heterochromatization in Mealybugs Silvia BongiorniGiorgio Prantera OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 279
Organization and Possible Origin of the Bari-1 Cluster in the Heterochromatic h39 Region of Drosophila Melanogaster René Massimiliano MarsanoRosabella MilanoRuggiero Caizzi OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 289
Responder (Rsp) Alleles in the Segregation Distorter (SD) System of Meiotic Drive in Drosophila may Represent a Complex Family of Satellite Repeat Sequences Kathleen HoutchensTerrence W. Lyttle OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 302
A Subset of the Elements of the 1731 Retrotransposon Family are Preferentially Located in Regions of the Y Chromosome that are Polytenized in Larval Salivary Glands of Drosophila Melanogaster Nikolaj JunakovicDario FortunatiSergio Pimpinelli OriginalPaper Pages: 303 - 310
The Role of HeT-A and TART Retrotransposons in Drosophila Telomere Capping Giovanni CenciGiorgia SiriacoMaurizio Gatti OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 318
Telomeric Position Effect in Drosophila Melanogaster Reflects a Telomere Length Control Mechanism James M. MasonAlexander Y. KonevHarald Biessmann OriginalPaper Pages: 319 - 325
Telomeric Transgenes and trans-Silencing in Drosophila Stéphane RonsserayThibaut JosseDominique Anxolabéhère OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 335