**Meet the editors**

Marcelo L. Larramendy, PhD, serves as a professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the School of Natural Sciences and Museum at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. He is the senior researcher for the National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Argentina and a former member of the executive committee of the Latin American Association of Environ-

mental Mutagenesis, Teratogenesis and Carcinogenesis. He has authored more than 450 contributions, including scientific publications, research communications, and conferences worldwide. He is a recipient of several national and international awards. Dr. Larramendy is a regular lecturer for Alexander Hollaender international courses organized by the IAEMS. He was a former guest scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States and the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is an expert in genetic toxicology and has been a referee for more than 20 international scientific journals. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, WHO, Lyon, France) for the evaluation of DDT, lindane, and 2,4-D. Currently, Dr. Larramendy is the head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genotoxicology at the UNLP.

Sonia Soloneski earned a PhD in Natural Sciences and is an assistant professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the School of Natural Sciences and Museum at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. She is a member of the National Scientific and Technological Research Council (CONICET) of Argentina in the field of genetic toxicology. Currently, she is a member of the Latin

American Association of Environmental Mutagenesis, Teratogenesis and Carcinogenesis (ALAMCTA), the Argentinean Society of Toxicology (ATA), and the Argentinean Society of Genetics (SAG). Dr. Soloneski has authored more than 350 scientific publications in the field, including scientific publications in research papers, reviewed journals, and conferences worldwide. She is a referent for issues related to genetic toxicology, mutagenesis, and ecotoxicology.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Aykut Yılmaz

and Claudio Oliveira

Natalia V. Kovaleva

**Chromosome 13 119**

Chapter 8 **Cytogenomic Microarray Testing 143**

Minasi and Aparecido da Cruz

Chapter 1 **Cytogenetics in the Study of Chromosomal Rearrangement during Wheat Evolution and Breeding 1**

Elena A. Salina and Irina G. Adonina

Chapter 2 **Cytogenetic Relationships of Turkish Oaks 19**

Mei-Chen Tseng and Kuan-Wei Shih

Chapter 3 **Application of Karyotype and Genetic Characterization**

Chapter 5 **Karyology of the Bats from the Russian Far East 75** Uliana V. Gorobeyko and Irina V. Kartavtseva

Chapter 6 **Resolving Paradoxes of Robertsonian Translocations 99**

Chapter 7 **Comparative Cytogenetics Allows the Reconstruction of Human Chromosome History: The Case of Human**

Rita Scardino, Vanessa Milioto and Francesca Dumas

Irene Plaza Pinto, Alex da Cruz, Emília Costa, Samara Pereira, Lysa

**Analyses for Hybrid Breeding of Epinephelus Groupers 37**

Fabilene G. Paim, Maria Lígia M. de Oliveira Nobile, Fausto Foresti

Chapter 4 **Cytogenetic Tools to Study the Biodiversity of Neotropical Fish: From the Classic to the Advent of Cell Culture 53**
