Classic Papers in the History of Genetics
Table of Contents.
Gregor Mendel's Experiments
Gregor Mendel (1866), "Experiments on Plant Hybrids," Trans. by Eva Sherwood, in The Origin
of Genetics, Curt Stern and Eva Sherwood, eds. (W. H. Freeman and Co., 1966), pp. 1-48.
The Rediscoverers
Hugo De Vries (1900), "The Law of Segregation of Hybrids," Trans. by Eva Sherwood, in The
Origin of Genetics, Curt Stern and Eva Sherwood, eds. (W. H. Freeman and Co., 1966), pp. 107-118.
More Mendelian than Mendel
William Bateson (1901), "Problems of Heredity as a Subject for Horticultural Investigation,"
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 25: 54-61.
The Biometricians
W. F. R. Weldon (1895) "Remarks on Variation in Animals and Plants," Proceedings of the Royal
Society 57: .
G. Udny Yule (1905), Mendel's Laws and Their Probable Relations to Intra-Racial Heredity,"
New Phytologist 1: 226-7.
Genotype and Phenotype
W. Johannsen (1911), "The Genotype Conception of Heredity," The American Naturalist 95: 129-159.
Eugenics
Charles Davenport (1912), "The Inheretance of Physical and Mental Traits of Man and Their
Application to Eugenics" in Heredity and Eugenics. W. Castle, ed. University of Chicago Press.
William Castle (1930) "Race Mixture and Physical Disharmonies," Science, n.s. 71: 603-606.
The Chromosome Theory of Heredity
T. H. Morgan (1910) "Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila," Science 32: 120-122.
A. H. Sturtevant (1917) "Genetic Factors Affecting the Strength of Linkage in Drosophila,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 3: 555-558.
Cytogenetics
Harriet B. Creighton and Barbara McClintock (1931), "A Correlation of Cytological and
Genetical Crossing-Over in Zea mays," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 17: 492-497.
T. S. Painter (1934), "A New Method for the Study of Chromosome Aberrations and the Plotting
o Chromosome Maps in Drosophila melanogaster," Genetics 19: 175-188.
Mutation
H. J. Muller (1927) "Artificial Transmutation of the Gene," Science 66: 84-87.
Evolutionary Genetics
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937), Genetics and the Origins of Species, excerpts. Columbia
University Press.
G. Turesson, (1922) "The Genotypical Response of Plant Species to the Habitat," Hereditas 3: 211-350.
Plant and Animal Breeding
George Shull (1909) "A Pure Line Method of Corn Breeding," Report of the American Breeders
Association 5: 51-59.
Human Genetics
J. Neel (1949) "The Inheritance of Sickle Cell Anemia," Science 110: 64-66.
L. Hogben (1932) "The Genetic Analysis of Familial Traits," Journal of Genetics 25: 97-112.
Population Genetics
Sewall Wright (1931) "Evolution in Mendelian Populations," Genetics 16: 97-159.
J. B. S. Haldane (1954) "The Cost of Natural Selection," Journal of Genetics 55: 511-524.
Developmental Genetics
S. Gluecksohn-Schoenheimer (1940) "The effect of an early lethal (t*) in the house mouse,"
Genetics 25: 391-400.
C. Waddington (1975) "Genetic Assimilation," reprinted in The Evolution of an Evolutionist.
Cornell University Press.
Biochemical Genetics
G. W. Beadle and E. L. Tatum (1941), "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in
Neurospora," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 27: 499-506.
Arthur Pardee, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod (1959) "The Genetic Control and
Ctyoplasmic Expression of "Inducibility" in the Synthesis of beta-galactosidase by E. coli,"
Journal of Molecular Biology 1: 165-178.
Genetic Fine Structure
Raffel, D. and H. J. Muller. 1940. "Position Effect and Gene Divisibility Considered in
Connection with Three Strikingly Similar Scute Mutations," Genetics 25: 541-583.
Seymour Benzer (1955) "Fine Structure of a Region of Bacteriophage," Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences 41: 344-354.
Barbara McClintock (1956) "Controlling Elements and the Gene," Cold Spring Harbor Symposia
on Quantitative Biology 21: 197-216.
Molecular Genetics
O. Avery, C. MacLeod, and M. McCarty (1944), "Studies on the Chemical Nature of the
Substance Inducing Transformation of Pneumococcal Types I.," Journal of Experimental
Medicine 79: 137-158.
James Watson and Francis Crick (1953), "A Structure for Deoxyribonucleic Acid," Nature 737-738.
M. Meselsohn and F. Stahl (1958) "The Replication of DNA," Cold Spring Harbor Symposia for
Quantitative Biology 23: 9-12.
M. Nirenberg and Philip Leder (1964) "RNA Codewords and Protein Synthesis," Science 145:
1399-1407.