Illuminating life : selected papers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1903-1969

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.

• Foreword p. vii
• Preface p. ix
• Acknowledgments p. xiii
• Prologue: How the Laboratory Was Planted at Cold Spring Harbor and Why It Grew There p. xv
• Ecology, Adaptation, and Evolution--Early Research at Cold Spring Harbor p. 1
• The Animal Ecology of the Cold Spring Sand Spit, with Remarks on the Theory of Adaptation 1903 C.B. Davenport
• The Early Applications of Mendel's Genetics to Human Beings p. 23
• Heredity of Eye-Color in Man 1907 G.C. Davenport and C.B. Davenport
• The Development of Hybrid Corn at Cold Spring Harbor p. 29
• The Composition of a Field of Maize 1908 G.H. Shull
• A Pure-line Method in Corn Breeding 1909 G.H. Shull
• Chromosomal Changes and Heredity p. 47
• Chromosomal Duplication and Mendelian Phenomena in Datura Mutants 1920 A.F. Blakeslee and J. Belling and M.E. Farnham
• Mouse Headquarters, Cold Spring Harbor p. 53
• The Heredity of Susceptibility to a Transplantable Sarcoma (J.W.B.) of the Japanese Waltzing Mouse 1920 C.C. Little
• Studies on Leukemia in Mice: I: The Experimental Transmission of Leukemia 1930 M.N. Richter and E.C. MacDowell
• Unstable Genes in Drosophila p. 77
• Reddish--A Frequently "Mutating" Character in Drosophila virilis 1926 M. Demerec
• Quantitative Biology Comes to the Biological Laboratory--Isolating Hormones p. 87
• The Treatment of Patients with Addison's Disease with the "Cortical Hormone" of Swingle and Pfiffner 1930 L.G. Rowntree and C.H. Greene and W.W. Swingle and J.J. Pfiffner
• The Genetics of Taste and Smell p. 95
• Genetics of Sensory Thresholds: Taste for Phenylthiocarbamide 1932 A.F. Blakeslee
• Pigeons, Hormones, and Lactation p. 109
• A New Hormone of the Anterior Pituitary 1932 O. Riddle and R.W. Bates and S.W. Dykshorn
• Quantitative Biology: Biophysics in the Biological Laboratory p. 117
• Electric Impedance of Suspensions of Yeast Cells 1934 H. Fricke and H.J. Curtis
• Broken Chromosomes p. 125
• The Fusion of Broken Ends of Chromosomes following Nuclear Fusion 1942 B. McClintock
• Penicillin: The Department of Genetics at War p. 135
• Production of Penicillin. United States Patent 1948 M. Demerec
• Development of a High-yielding Strain of Penicillium 1945 M. Demerec
• The Unstable Genome--Movable Genes p. 145
• Chromosome Organization and Genic Expression 1951 B. McClintock
• Dissecting the Bacteriophage Life Cycle p. 185
• The Intracellular Growth of Bacteriophages. I. Liberation of Intracellular T4 by Premature Lysis with Another Phage or with Cyanide 1952 A. Doermann
• The Hershey-Chase Experiment p. 201
• Independent Functions of Viral Protein and Nucleic Acid in Growth of Bacteriophage 1952 A. Hershey and M. Chase
• Assembly Line Genes p. 223
• Tryptophan Mutants in Salmonella typhimurium 1956 M. Demerec and Z. Hartman
• First Glimpses of DNA Repair p. 257
• Time, Temperature, and Protein Synthesis: A Study of Ultraviolet-induced Mutation in Bacteria 1956 E.M. Witkin
• DNA and the T2 Phage Chromosome p. 279
• An Estimate of the Length of the DNA Molecule of T2 Bacteriophage by Autoradiography 1961 J. Cairns
• The Sticky Ends of Phage [lambda] and Their Uses p. 291
• Cohesion of DNA Molecules Isolated from Phage Lambda 1963 A.D. Hershey and E. Burgi and L. Ingraham
• DNA Synthesis and the Case of the Missing Enzyme p. 303
• Isolation of an E. coli Strain with a Mutation Affecting DNA Polymerase 1969 P. De Lucia and J. Cairns
• Appendices Directors at Cold Spring Harbor
• Charles B. Davenport p. 311
• Charles Benedict Davenport 1866-1944. A Study of Conflicting Influences 1946 E.C. MacDowell
• Reginald G. Harris p. 361
• Reginald Harris and the Biological Laboratory 1982
• Milislav Demerec p. 367
• Milislav Demerec 1895-1966 1971 B. Wallace
• Name Index p. 373
• Subject Index p. 379