The Barbara McClintock Papers

Title:

The Discovery of Ds. Its Behavior and its Relation to Mutable Loci

Description:

Series of lectures given by McClintock at the California Institute of Technology. The notes are partially written in McClintock's hand.

Number of Image Pages:

10 (909,267 Bytes)

Date:

1954-01-11 (January 11, 1954)

Creator:

McClintock, Barbara

Source:

Original Repository: American Philosophical Society. Library. Barbara McClintock Papers

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Barbara McClintock Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Mutation; Chromosome Breakage; Cytogenetics; Zea mays

Relation:

Introduction to Study of Variegation in Maize (January 7, 1954)

The Genetic Location and Cytological Behavior of Ds [14, 18, 21 January 1954]

The Inheritance Behavior and the Mode of Action of Ac (January 21, 1954)

Continuation of Inheritance Behavior in Ac (January 25, 1954)

Continuation of Transposition of Ac; and its Relation to Somatic Sectoring and to Controls of Mutation of Mutable Genes (January 28, 1954)

Changes in State of Ac -- the Effects; Breakage-fusion-bridge Cycles in Endosperm; Transposition of Ds (Begin) (February 1, 1954)

Continuation of Transposition of Ds; Locations of Ds in Short Arm of Chromosome 9. The Missing Regions; Why. The States of Ds (February 4, 1954)

The Mechanism of Transposition of Ds; Origin and Behavior of cm-1 (February 8, 1954)

Review of Previous Discussions [11, 15 February 1954]

Conclusions on c-m1; Outline of bz-m1; Begin c-m2 (February 15, 1954)

The Origin and Behavior of c-m2; The Origin and Behavior of wx-m1 (February 18, 1954)

Continuation of Discussion of wx-m1; The Induction of Mutability at Selected Loci; The States of a1-m3 (February 22, 1954)

The Breakage-fusion-bridge Cycle and the Origin of Instability at Gene Loci (February 25, 1954)

Spread of Mutation Change Along Chromosome. The a1 m-1; a1 m-2 Control Systems (March 1, 1954)

The Interpretation of Origin and Behavior of the Controlling Systems (March 4, 1954)

Box Number: 2

Unique Identifier:

LLBBHK

Document Type:

Lectures

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2002-06-13