Research Catalog

Title

The Dynamic genome : Barbara McClintock's ideas in the century of genetics / edited by Nina Fedoroff, David Botstein.

Publication

[Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.] : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fedoroff, Nina.
• Botstein, David.

Description

vii, 422 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Subject

• McClintock, Barbara, 1902-
• Genetics
• Women geneticists > United States > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Recollections of Barbara McClintock's Cornell years / H. B. Creighton -- Barbara McClintock : reminiscences / C. Burnham -- Barbara McClintock : recollections of a graduate student / H. V. Crouse -- Neurospora chromosomes / D. D. Perkins -- The early years of maize genetics / M. M. Rhoades -- Insertion by phages and transposons / A. Campbell -- Cold Spring Harbor 1944-1955 : a minimemoir / E. M. Witkin -- Annals of mobile DNA elements in drosophila : the impact of influence of Barbara McClintock / M. Green -- The mutable waxy and bronzel alleles of maize / O. E. Nelson -- Remembrances of Barbara McClintock / L. L. Miller, Jr. -- The nucleolar-organizing element / J. G. Gall -- Do some "parasitic" DNA elements earn an honest living? / M. L. Pardue -- The plural of heterochromatin / C. D. Laird -- A tapestry of transposition / A. M. Skalka.
• Kernels and colonies : the challenge of pattern / J. A. Shapiro -- Phage mu : an early prokaryotic controlling element / M. M. Howe -- McClintock (1933) : implications for meiotic chromosome pairing / N. Kleckner -- Twenty-five years of transposable element research in Koln / H. Saedler, P. Starlinger -- Obsession with sequences / N. D. F. Grindley -- The revenge of the Mayans / G. Albrecht-Buehler -- "Please come to my laboratory for better coffee, fresh orange juice,... / B. M. Alberts -- Transposable elements (Ty) in yeast / G. R. Fink -- Controlling elements, mutable alleles, and mating-type interconversion / I. Herskowitz -- Thinking about programmed genome rearrangements in a genome static state of mind / J. N. Strathern -- The role of McClintock's controlling element concept in the story of yeast mating-type switching / A. J. S. Klar -- From bacterial flagella to homeodomains / M. I. Simon -- Discovery of Tc1 in the nematode, caenorhabditis elegans / P. Anderson, S. W. Emmons, D. C. Moerman -- Broken chromosomes and telomeres / E. H. Blackburn -- Maize transposable elements : a story in four parts / N. V. Fedoroff.

Call Number

JFF 94-3897

ISBN

087969422X

LCCN

92010074

OCLC

25632448

Title

The Dynamic genome : Barbara McClintock's ideas in the century of genetics / edited by Nina Fedoroff, David Botstein.

Imprint

[Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.] : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Fedoroff, Nina.

Botstein, David.

Research Call Number

JFF 94-3897

JSF 07-107