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Reconceiving the gene : Seymour Benzer's adventures in phage genetics /

A fascinating and detailed chronicle, "Reconceptualizing the Gene" relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer's accomplishments and discoveries are widely r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holmes, Frederic Lawrence
Other Authors: Summers, William C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Benzer, Seymour.
Geneticists > United States > Biography.
Bacteriophages > Genetics.
Viral genetics > History.
Microbial genetics.
Gene mapping.
Bacterial genomes.
Bacteriophage T4 > genetics
Genetics, Microbial
Chromosome Mapping
Genome, Bacterial
Biography
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780300129700
030012970X
9786611730475
6611730478
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Classical mendelian genetics
  • Genetics and the phage biologists
  • The physicist becomes a phage biologist
  • To Paris and back
  • Teaching and research at Purdue
  • Entering the rII region
  • Crossing into the fine structure
  • Is gene a dirty word?
  • The survival of the "gene."

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