Chromosome painting — principles, strategies and scope.- Human chromosomal banding by in situ hybridization of isochores.- Telomere length measurement by Q-FISH.- Refined characterisation of chromosome aberrations in tumours by multicolour banding and electronic mapping resources.- Relationship of telomere sequence and constitutive heterochromatin in the human and apes as detected by PRINS.- Chromosome painting in farm, pet and wild animal species.- Chromosome painting in plants.- Localisation of DNA sequences on plant chromosomes using PRINS and C-PRINS.- GISH technology in plant genome research.- The use of FISH in chromosomal localization of transgenes in rice.- Microdissection and chromosome painting of plant B chromosomes.- Chromosome painting as a tool for rice genetics and breeding.- Fluorescent in situ hybridization in plant polytene chromosomes.- Molecular cytogenetics of introgressive hybridization in plants.- High resolution FISH to delineate contiguous and small DNA sequences.- Identification and analysis of sex chromosomes by comparative genomic hybridization (CGH).- Comparative karyotype using bidirectional chromosome painting: how and why?.- Immunolocalization of HP1 proteins in metaphasic mammalian chromosomes.- Author index.