History of Genetics / Edition 1

by A. H. Sturtevant, Edward B. Lewis

Overview

In the small"Fly Room" at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics. This attractive reprint is accompanied by a website offering full-text versions of the key papers discussed in the book, including the world's first genetic map.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879696078
Publisher:	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication date:	01/18/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Note from the Publishers	vii
	Introduction	ix
	Author's Preface	xi
1	Before Mendel	1
2	Mendel	9
3	1866 to 1900	17
4	The Rediscovery	25
5	Genes and Chromosomes	33
6	Linkage	39
7	The "Fly Room"	45
8	Development of Drosophila Work	51
9	Genetics of Continuous Variation	58
10	Oenothera	62
11	Mutation	67
12	Cytological Maps and the Cytology of Crossing Over	73
13	Sex Determination	80
14	Position Effect	87
15	Genetics and Immunology	93
16	Biochemical Genetics	100
17	Population Genetics and Evolution	107
18	Protozoa	117
19	Maternal Effects	121
20	The Genetics of Man	126
21	General Remarks	133
Appendix A	Chronology	136
Appendix B	Intellectual Pedigrees	139
	Bibliography	144
	Index	157
	Afterword: Remembering Sturtevant	168