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Partial table of contents: INCIDENCE. Aneuploidy in Humans: Dimensions, Demography, and Dangers of Abnormal Numbers of Chromosomes (F. Hecht and B. Hecht). Incidence of Aneuploidy in Rodents (J. Mailhes). Incidence of Aneuploidy in Farm Animals (W. Blazak). Aneuploidy in Drosophila (S. Zimmering). Aneuploidy in Higher Plants (S. Sandhu and B. Gill). Aneuploidy in the Normal Life Cycle of the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans (P. Goldstein). ETIOLOGY. Meiotic Origin of Aneuploidy: An Overview (L. Backer and J. Allen). Human Aneuploidy: Trisomic Births are Nonrandom Events (F. Hecht). Chromosome Displacement Hypothesis (J. Ford). Sequential Centromere Separation in Multicentric Chromosomes: Relationship to Aneuploidy (B. Vig). On the Biological Effects of Mutants Producing Aneuploidy in Drosophila (B. Baker et al.). Microtubule Assembly In Vitro as an Aid in the Study of Aneuploidy (B. Hartley-Asp). Lessons Learned from Yeast: A Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Centromere Function (M. Resnick and K. Bloom). Aneuploidy Incidence and Etiology: Summary and Perspective (B. Vig and A. Sandberg). Index.