Publisher's Synopsis
This special issue of 'Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics' is dedicated to Dr. Susumu Ohno on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Edited by Drs. Michael Schmid (Würzburg) and Harold P. Klinger (New York) with an introductory laudatio by Dr. Ulrich Wolf (Freiburg), it contains 39 papers by friends and associates of Dr. Ohno from 15 countries and all five continents. Many of these are prominent researchers in genetics. Covering a wide range of topics, this issue includes reviews or original research reports on classical and molecular cytogenetics, evolution, X-inactivation, sex determination, chromosome organization, H-Y antigen, meiosis and molecular genetics, to give only some examples. A few anecdotal papers relating to Dr. Ohno and prepared by some of his friends are also included.
