| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Editors |
| Contributors |
| Devices for Chromosome Handling / Part I： |
| Mechanical Approaches to Elucidate Mechanisms of Chromosome Condensation at the Nano- and Microlevels / Kazushige Kawabata ; Keisuke Nomura ; Kensuke Ikeda ; Osamu Hoshi ; Daisuke Fukushi ; Hisashi Haga ; Tatsuo UshikiChapter 1： |
| Development of Novel AFM Probes for Chromosome Manipulation / Masato Saito ; Gen Hashiguchi ; Eiichi TamiyaChapter 2： |
| Microchamber Array-Based Sequence-Specific DNA Detection from a Single Chromosome via Trace Volume PCR / Chapter 3： |
| On-Chip Chromosome Sorter Using Electric and Magnetic Fields / Takahito Inoue ; Yasuyuki Fujita ; Susumu Uchiyama ; Tomoyuki Doi ; Kiichi Fukui ; Hiroshi YokoyamaChapter 4： |
| Visualization of Chromosomes at the Nano- and Microlevels / Part II： |
| Fluorescence Microscopy for Analysis of Chromosome Dynamics / Sachihiro MatsunagaChapter 5： |
| Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) as a Tool for Comparative Genomics: Application of FISH to Studies of Chromosome Evolution in Vertebrates / Yoichi Matsuda ; Mami Shibusawa ; Kazumi Matsubara ; Chizuko Nishida-UmeharaChapter 6： |
| Immunocytochemistry for Analyzing Chromosomes / Toru Hirota ; Eiji Kimura ; Nae KomatsubaraChapter 7： |
| Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy of Mammalian Metaphase Chromosomes / Sumire Inaga ; Keiichi TanakaChapter 8： |
| Atomic Force Microscopy of Human Chromosomes in Relation to Their Higher-Order Structure / Chapter 9： |
| Mechanism of Higher-Order Chromatin Folding Revealed by AFM Observation of In Vitro Reconstituted Chromatin / Kohji Hizume ; Toshiro Kobori ; Shige H. Yoshimura ; Kunio TakeyasuChapter 10： |
| Scanning Near-Field Optical/Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for Simultaneous Specification of Chromosome Topography and Particular Gene Location on the Nanometer Scale / Motoharu Shichiri ; Tomoyuki Yoshino ; Shoji Hagiwara ; Kohei Akazawa ; Toshio Ohtani ; Shigeru SugiyamaChapter 11： |
| Chromosomes as Nanomaterials / Part III： |
| Isolation of Human and Plant Chromosomes as Nanomaterials / Chapter 12： |
| Proteome Analysis of Human Metaphase Chromosomes / Chapter 13： |
| Antipeptide Antibodies for Examining the Conformation and Molecular Assembly of an Intracellular Protein / Masatoshi Nakagawa ; Nobuko Ohmido ; Katsumi Ishikawa ; Takachika AzumaChapter 14： |
| Structure and Interactions of the Imitation SWI-Type Chromatin-Remodeling Complex, ATP-Dependent Chromatin-Assembly Factor / Tadayasu Ohkubo ; Mariana Petkova-Andonova ; Yukiko Kojima ; Shota Nakamura ; Hiroko Fujita ; Yoshinori Nishi ; Hiroaki Nakano ; Yuji KobayashiChapter 15： |
| Dynamic and Functional Analysis of Chromosomal Proteins / Chapter 16： |
| Informatics of Chromosome Imaging / Part IV： |
| Development of a Sustainable Chromosome Imaging Database / Kenji Taniguchi ; Chiharu Mitsueda ; Naho Okumura ; Wakako MiyazakiChapter 17： |
| Image Database and Image Analysis of Chromosome Information / Shin-ichi Toyabe ; Takayuki MatsutoChapter 18： |
| Index |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Editors |
| Contributors |
| Devices for Chromosome Handling / Part I： |
| Mechanical Approaches to Elucidate Mechanisms of Chromosome Condensation at the Nano- and Microlevels / Kazushige Kawabata ; Keisuke Nomura ; Kensuke Ikeda ; Osamu Hoshi ; Daisuke Fukushi ; Hisashi Haga ; Tatsuo UshikiChapter 1： |
