Illuminating life : selected papers form Cold Spring Harbor (1903-1969)

Author(s)

• Witkowski, J. A. (Jan Anthony)

Bibliographic Information

Illuminating life : selected papers form Cold Spring Harbor (1903-1969)

commentaries by Jan Witkowski

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2000

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume showcases reprints of 20 significant papers published by scientists while at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, with a non-technical explanation of the work's significance at the time and a profile of the investigator concerned.

Table of Contents

• Ecology, adaptation and evolution - early research at Cold Spring Harbor
• the early applications of Mendel's genetics to human beings
• the development of hybrid corn at Cold Spring Harbor
• chromosomal changes and heredity
• mouse headquarters, Cold Spring Harbor
• unstable genes in Drosophila
• quantitative biology comes to the biological laboratory - isolating hormones
• the genetics of taste and smell
• pigeons, hormones and lactation
• quantitative biology - biophysics in the biological laboratory
• broken chromosomes
• penicillin - the department of genetics at war
• the unstable genome - movable genes
• dissecting the bacteriophage life cycle
• the Hershey-Chase experiment
• assembly line genes
• first glimpses of DNA repair
• DNA and the T2 phage chromosome
• the sticky ends of phage lambda and their uses
• DNA synthesis and the case of the missing enzyme.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA46676952
• ISBN:
  • 0879695668
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cold Spring Harbor
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 383 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 572.8'21
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Molecular biology
  • LCSH : Molecular genetics
  • LCSH : Cold Spring Harbor Labratory