Research Catalog

Title

Perspectives on genetics : anecdotal, historical, and critical commentaries, 1987-1998 / edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove.

Publication

Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Crow, James F. (James Franklin), 1916-2012.
• Dove, W. F. (William F.), 1936-

Description

xiii, 723 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Genetics
• Genetics > Anecdotes
• Genetics > History
• Genetics > trends
• Genetics
• genetics
• Anekdote
• Genetik
• Genetica
• Anekdote
• Genetik

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes
• anecdotes.
• Anecdotes.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / James F. Crow, William F. Dove -- Sewall Wright and Physiological Genetics / James F. Crow 3 -- Paradox Found / William F. Dove 5 -- Seventy Years Ago in Genetics : H.S. Jennings and Inbreeding Theory / James F. Crow 7 -- Twenty Years of Illegitimate Recombination / Philip Anderson 10 -- Molecular Genetics of Mus musculus : Point Mutagenesis and Millimorgans / William F. Dove 13 -- Twenty-five Years Ago in Genetics : Motoo Kimura and Molecular Evolution / James F. Crow 17 -- The waxy Locus in Maize Twenty-five Years Later / Oliver E. Nelson 19 -- Doing Behavioral Genetics with Bacteria / John S. Parkinson 23 -- Gene Recombination and Linked Segregations in Escherichia coli / Joshua Lederberg 25 -- A Mouse Phoenix Rose from the Ashes / Elizabeth S. Rusell 29 -- "In the Air" : Theodosius Dohzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species / Jeffrey R. Powell 31 -- Quantitative Genetics in 1987 / B.S. Weir 35-- A Diamond Anniversary : The First Chromosome Map / James F. Crow 37 -- The Year of the Fly / William F. Dove 40 -- The Ultraselfish Gene / James F. Crow 43 -- Notes of a Bigamous Biologist / Gerald R. Fink 46 -- Cytogenetics and Karl Sax / Carl P. Swanson 48 -- H.J. Muller, Communism, and the Cold War / Diane Paul 51 -- Eighty Years Ago : The Beginnings of Population Genetics / James F. Crow 54 -- A Diamond in a Desert / Herschel Roman 58 -- Unequal Crossing Over Then and Now / Kenneth D. Tartof 61 -- The Genesis of Dysgenesis / James F. Crow 67 -- Between Novembers : Demerec, Cold Spring Harbor, and the Gene / Philip E. Hartman 71 -- The Hawthorne Deletion Twenty-five Years Later / Ira Herskowitz 76 -- Early Worms / Jonathan Hodgkin 81 -- There's a Whole Lot of Shaking Going On / Barry Ganetzky 84 -- Replica Plating and Indirect Selection of Bacterial Mutants : Isolation of Preadaptive Mutants in Bacteria by Sib Selection / Joshua Lederberg 88 -- Twenty-five Years Ago in Genetics : The Infinite Allele Model / James F. Crow 93 -- Evolving Theories of Enzyme Evolution / Daniel L. Hartl 97 -- Gustave Malecot and the Transition from Classical to Modern Population Genetics / Thomas Nagylaki 103 -- Fortunes of War / James F. Crow 119 -- In Praise of Complexity / Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch 122 -- M.R. Irwin and the Beginnings of Immunogenetics / Ray Owen 127 -- The Linkage Map of Phage T4 / Franklin W. Stahl 131 -- The Molecular Genetics of Differentiation / Bert Ely, Lucy Shapiro 135 -- Intragenic Recombination in Drosophila : The rosy Locus / Arthur Chovnick 138 -- R.A. Fisher, A Centennial View / James F. Crow 142 -- Regulating Tn 10 and IS 10 Transposition / Nancy Kleckner 147 -- The Foundations of Genetic Fine Structure : A Retrospective from Memory / M.M. Green 153 -- Studies of Yeast Cytochrome c : How and Why They Started and Why They Continued / Fred Sherman 157 -- L.C. Dunn and Mouse Genetic Mapping / Mary F. Lyon 161 -- The Role of Similarity and Difference in Fungal Mating / Robert L. Metzenberg 167 -- Mapping Functions / James F. Crow 173 -- "Joy of the Worm" / H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston 176 -- Genes and Development : Molecular and Logical Themes / Sydney Brenner, William F. Dove, Ira Herskowitz 182 -- Sixty Years of Mystery / Allan C. Spradling, Gary H. Karpen 190 -- Our Diamond Birthday Anniversary / James F. Crow 196 -- Haldane's Solution of the Luria-Delbruck Distribution / Sahotra Sarkar 199 -- Fifty Years Ago : The Neurospora Revolution / Norman H. Horowitz 204 -- Tomato Paste : A Concentrated Review of Genetic Highlights from the Beginnings to the Advent of Molecular Genetics / Charles M. Rick 209 -- Impact of the Douglas-Hawthorne Model as a Paradigm for Elucidating Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms in Fungi / Yasuji Oshima 214 -- The Regulation of Arginine Biosynthesis : Its Contribution to Understanding the Control of Gene Expression / Werner K. Maas 221 -- Twenty-five Years Ago in Genetics : Electrophoresis in the Development of Evolutionary Genetics : Milestone or Millstone? / R.C. Lewontin 227 -- Alfred Henry Sturtevant and Crosses between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans / William B. Provine 233 -- The Gene (H.J. Muller 1947) / Joshua Lederberg 238 -- Qualitative and Quantitative Genetic Studies of Arabidopsis thaliana / Bruce Griffing, Randall L. Scholl 242 -- Twenty-five Years of Cell Cycle-Genetics / Leland H. Hartwell 247 -- Centennial : J.B.S. Haldane, 1892-1964 / James F. Crow 253 -- Erwin Schrodinger and the Hornless Cattle Problem / James F. Crow 259 -- Twenty-five Years Ago in Genetics : Identical Triplets / James F. Crow 262 -- Neurospora : The Organism behind the Molecular Revolution / David D. Perkins 266 -- Looking for the Homunculus in Drosophila / Alan Garen 281 -- What Did Gregor Mendel Think He Discovered? / Daniel L. Hartl, Vitezslav Orel 284 -- Molecular Genetics under an Embryologist's Microscope : Jean Brachet, 1909-1988 / Rene Thomas 293 -- Sixty Years Ago : The 1932 International Congress of Genetics / James F. Crow 297 -- On the Beginnings of Somatic Cell Hybridization : Boris Ephrussi and Chromosome Transplantation / Doris T. Zallen, Richard M. Burian 302 -- Forty Years Ago : The Discovery of Bacterial Transduction / Norton D. Zinder 310 -- Forty Years Ago in Genetics : The Unorthodox Mating Behavior of Bacteria / L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza 314 -- Unicorns Revisited / Franklin W. Stahl 317 -- Felix Bernstein and the First Human Marker Locus / James F. Crow 320 -- Quantitative Genetics in Edinburgh : 1947-1980 / Douglas Falconer 324 -- Thirty Years Ago in Genetics : Prophage Insertion into Bacterial Chromosomes / Allan M. Campbell 330 -- William Ernest Castle : Pioneer Mammalian Geneticist / George D. Snell, Sheldon Reed 335 -- N.I. Vavilov, Martyr to Genetic Truth / James F. Crow 338 -- The Discovery of Mustard Gas Mutagenesis by Auerbach and Robson in 1941 / Geoffrey Beale 342 -- Morgan's Hypothesis of the Genetic Control of Development / Raphael Falk, Sara Schwartz 349 -- The Gene, the Polygene, and the Genome / William F. Dove 353 -- Francis Galton : Count and Measure, Measure and Count / James F. Crow 357 -- Roland Thaxter's Legacy and the Origins of Multicellular Development / Dale Kaiser 361 -- Meiosis as an "M" Thing : Twenty-five Years of Meiotic Mutants in Drosophila / R. Scott Hawley 367 -- A Notable Triumvirate of Maize Geneticists / Oliver E. Nelson 373 -- Allozymes in Evolutionary Genetics : Self-Imposed Burden or Extraordinary Tool? / Ward B. Watt 378 -- The Transformation of Genetics by DNA : An Anniversary Celebration of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty (1944) / Joshua Lederberg 384 -- Sturtevant's Mantle and the (Lost?) Art of Chromosome Mechanics / John C. Lucchesi 388 -- Harvard, Agriculture, and the Bussey Institution / J.A. Weir 390.
• Archibald Edward Garrod : The Reluctant Geneticist / Alexander G. Bearn 395 -- Transparent Vertebrates and Their Genetic Images / William F. Dove 399 -- A Century of Homeosis, A Decade of Homeoboxes / William McGinnis 402 -- Hitoshi Kihara, Japan's Pioneer Geneticist / James F. Crow 407 -- A Reconsideration of the Mechanism of Position Effect / Steven Henikoff 411 -- The Holliday Junction on Its Thirtieth Anniversary / Franklin W. Stahl 416 -- Discovery and Genetic Definition of the Drosophila Antennapedia Complex / Rob Denell 422 -- The Evolution of Somatic Selection : The Antibody Tale / Gerald M. Edelman 426 -- Early Days of Gel Electrophoresis / O. Smithies 433 -- The Fifties and the Renaissance in Human and Mammalian Cytogenetics / Orlando J. Miller 437 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Phage Course (1945-1970) : A Fiftieth Anniversary Remembrance / Millard Susman 443 -- Vicious Circles : Looking Back on Resistance Plasmids / Julian Davies 449 -- LODs Past and Present / Newton E. Morton 453 -- Quarreling Geneticists and a Diplomat / James F. Crow 459 -- Galton and Identification by Fingerprints / Stephen M. Stigler 465 -- Two Genes, No Enzyme : A Second Look at Barbara McClintock and the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium / Nathaniel C. Comfort 469 -- Emil Heitz (1892-1965) : Chloroplasts, Heterochromatin, and Polytene Chromosomes / Helmut Zacharias 475 -- The Amber Mutants of Phage T4 / Franklin W. Stahl 483 -- Chromosome Behavior in Cell Differentiation : A Field Ripe for Exploration? / Eeva Therman 487 -- Remembering Sturtevant / E.B. Lewis 493 -- Embryonic Transcription and the Control of Developmental Pathways / Eric Wieschaus 497 -- The "Genesis of the White-Eyed Mutant" in Drosophila melanogaster : A Reappraisal / M.M. Green 503 -- Lancelot Hogben, 1895-1975 / Sahotra Sarkar 506 -- Worm Spadework / Robert K. Herman 512 -- The Sixtieth Anniversary of Biochemical Genetics / N.H. Horowitz 516 -- A Metabolic Basis for Dominance and Recessivity / Peter D. Keightley 520 -- Alexander Hollaender : Myth and Mensch / R.C. von Borstel, Charles M. Steinberg 525 -- Sewall Wright's "Systems of Mating" / William G. Hill 531 -- Recollections of Howard Temin (1934-1994) / John W. Drake, James F. Crow 539 -- Genetic Recombination in Escherichia coli : Disputation at Cold Spring Harbor, 1946-1996 / Joshua Lederberg 545 -- A Golden Anniversary : Cattle Twins and Immune Tolerance / James F. Crow 550 -- Dobzhansky, Bateson, and the Genetics of Speciation / H. Allen Orr 555 -- Invasions of P Elements / William R. Engels 560 -- Whatever Happened to Paramecium Genetics? / John R. Preer, Jr. 565 -- Reassessing Forty Years of Genetic Doctrine : Retrotransfer and Conjugation / Robert G. Ankenbauer 574 -- Ultraviolet-Induced Mutation and the Chemical Nature of the Gene / David Stadler 581 -- Chromosome Changes in Cell Differentiation / Orlando J. Miller 584 -- mulS, Proofreading, and Cancer / Edward C. Cox 592 -- Recombination and Population Structure in Escherichia coli / Roger Milkman 596 -- The Value of Basic Research : Discovery of Thermus aquaticus and Other Extreme Thermophiles / Thomas D. Brock 602 -- Birth Defects, Jimson Weeds, and Bell Curves / James F. Crow 606 -- Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species : Is It Still Relevant? / Richard C. Lewontin 612 -- The Weaker Sex Is Heterogametic : Seventy-five Years of Haldane's Rule / Cathy C. Laurie 617 -- Seventy Years Ago : Mutation Becomes Experimental / James F. Crow, Seymour Abrahamson 632 -- An Oak Ridge Legacy : The Specific Locus Test and Its Role in Mouse Mutagenesis / Allan Peter Davis, Monica J. Justice 638 -- The Engrailed Story / Antonio Garcia-Bellido 644 -- Ninety Years Ago : The Beginning of Hybrid Maize / James F. Crow 650 -- Hershey / Franklin W. Stahl 656 -- Anatomy of a Revolution / Gerald R. Fink 662 -- The Language of Gene Interaction / Patrick C. Phillips 667 -- T.H. Morgan at Caltech : A Reminiscence / Norman H. Horowitz 672 -- Genes and Chromomeres : A Puzzle in Three Dimensions / Burke H. Judd 676 -- An Extract from "Memoirs for Family and Friends" / John Tyler Bonner 685 -- Marcus Rhoades and Transposition / Nina Fedoroff 688 -- Lionel Sharples Penrose, 1898-1972 : A Personal Memoir in Celebration of the Centenary of His Birth / Renata Laxova 693.

ISBN

• 029916604X
• 9780299166045

LCCN

99049567

OCLC

• ocm42764276
• 42764276
• SCSB-1035289

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library