References

References

 [Atlan & Koppel, 1990]

Atlan, Henri, & Koppel, Moshe. 1990. The cellular computer DNA: program or data. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 52(3), 335-348. Suggests that DNA is better viewed as data, but that the program is somewhere else entirely. Contains a proposal for an information-theory definition of "sophistication", which is interesting.

 [Black, 1998]

Black, Douglas L. 1998. Splicing in the inner ear: a familiar tune, but what are the instruments? Neuron, 20(February), 165-168. Proteins that "tune" hairs on chick cochlear cells are generated by recombination of the cSLO gene. The problem is that it isn't really clear who controls how the recombination is done, nor is it clear how it is decided which cell gets which recombination.

 [Chargaff, 1968]

Chargaff, Erwin. 1968. What Really Is DNA? Remarks on the changing aspects of a scientific concept. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, 8, 297-333. Very realistic statement of the state of affairs circa 1968. No hype. See esp. the "Modest Glimpse of the Future" section, and the Epilogue.

 [Chayen, 1958]

Chayen, J. 1958. The Quantitative Cytochemistry Of DNA And Its Significance in Cell Physiology and Heredity. Experimental Cell Research Supplement, 6, 115-131. Considers and criticizes the three most significant sources (at the time) for empirical confirmation of DNA being the sole source of genetic information.

 [Coen, 1999]

Coen, Enrico. 1999. The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves. XX: Oxford University Press. Good book, with a decent and clear explanation of homeotic genes, but the efforts to extend the analogy between painting and ontogeny were eventually tiring.

 [Cubas et al., 1999]

Cubas, Pilar, Vincent, Coral, & Coen, Enrico. 1999. An epigenetic mutation responsible for natural variation in floral symmetry. Nature, 401(9 September), 157-161. The is the same Coen as [Coen, 1999], which uses a lot of floral examples.

 [Davies, 2001]

Davies, Kevin. 2001. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA. XX: Free Press.

 [Delbruck, 1949]

Delbruck, Max. 1949. Génétique du bactériophage. Pages 91-103 of: Unités Biologiques Douées de Continuité Génétique. Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, vol. 8. CNRS.

 [Delves & Roitt, 2000]

Delves, Peter J., & Roitt, Ivan M. 2000. The Immune System. New England Journal of Medicine, 343(1), 37-49. Review article. First of two parts.

 [Ephrussi et al., 1953]

Ephrussi, B.U., Leopold, U., Watson, James D., & Weigle, J.J. 1953. Terminology in Bacterial Genetics. Nature, 171(18 April), 701. A short note proposing to clear up some misunderstandings by adopting the word "information" when talking about bacteria genetics.

 [Gehring, 1998]

Gehring, Walter J. 1998. Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 [Gilbert, 1992]

Gilbert, Walter. 1992. Visions of the Grail. Pages 83-97 of: Kevles, D.J., & Hood, L. (eds), The Code of Codes. Harvard University Press.

 [Halder et al., 1995]

Halder, Georg, Callaerts, Patrick, & Gehring, Walter J. 1995. Induction of ectopic eyes by targeted expression of the eyeless gene in Drosophila. Science, 267(24 March), 1788-1792. This is the paper where they induced the growth of eyes on the legs and antenna of fruit flies, by switching on a control gene. It was also found that a homologous mouse gene would work the same function on the fruit fly.

 [Hawley & Mori, 1999]

Hawley, R. Scott, & Mori, Catherine A. 1999. The Human Genome: A User's Guide. New York: Academic Press. A triumphalist version of the current state of genetics. Meant to be either an introductory text or a deeper popular account.

 [Hershey, 1953]

Hershey, A.D. 1953. Functional differentiation within particles of bacteriophage T2. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol., 18, 135-139. A review of what was known about DNA at the time of writing.

 [IHGSC, 2001]

IHGSC. 2001. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature, 409(15 February), 860-921.

 [Jablonka & Lamb, 1995]

Jablonka, Eva, & Lamb, Marion J. 1995. Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution: The Lamarckian Dimension. Oxford: Oxford University Press. A review of what is currently known about epigenetic inheritance. Fairly technical. Authors are committed Darwinians, but want to make sure that this aspect is not ignored, since it appears to be real. Extensive bibliography.

 [Judson, 1979]

Judson, Horace Freeland. 1979. The Eighth Day Of Creation: The Makers Of The Revolution In Biology. New York: Simon and Schuster. A detailed history of the discovery of the structure and function of DNA, as rendered through interviews with many of the principals a couple of decades after the fact. Most of the history is developed through the interviews, though there is a contribution from the scientific literature as well. Much of the tone is rather smug to those who turned out to be quite right in their misgivings, but this was written in the glory days before the Genome Project screwed it all up.

 [Kay, 2000]

Kay, Lily E. 2000. Who Wrote The Book Of Life? Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. A history of the DNA-is-language metaphor, developed through parallel histories of molecular biology, information theory, and the militarization of scientific research, from 1945 to the present.

 [Keller, 1983]

Keller, Evelyn Fox. 1983. A Feeling For The Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman.

 [Keller, 2000]

Keller, Evelyn Fox. 2000. The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. A very sensible appraisal of what we know and what we don't know about genetics. The author is an active participant in some of the cooler currents in modern genetics.

 [McClintock, 1961]

McClintock, Barbara. 1961. Some parallels between gene control systems in maize and in bacteria. The American Naturalist, 95, 265-277. Points out that the genetic control structure envisioned by Jacob and Monod is similar to that envisioned by McClintock in maize.

 [McClintock, 1984]

McClintock, Barbara. 1984. The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge. Science, 226(16 November), 792-801. Her Nobel address. Prefigures later findings about adaptive mutability.

 [Morgan et al., 1999]

Morgan, Hugh D., Sutherland, Heidi G.E., Martin, David I.K., & Whitelaw, Emma. 1999. Epigenetic inheritance at the agouti locus in the mouse. Nature Genetics, 23(November), 314-318. Authors induced an epigenetic mutation into mice, and then found that the mutation appears to be inheritable.

 [Nanney, 1957]

Nanney, David L. 1957. The Role of The Cytoplasm In Heredity. Pages 134-166 of: McElroy, William D., & Glass, Bentley (eds), The Chemical Basis of Heredity, A Symposium. McCollum-Pratt Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Shows results from paramecia that challenge the view that heredity is exclusively a nuclear function. The paramecia are shown to have inherited traits in a non-mendelian fashion, but only when they exchanged cytoplasm.

 [Nanney, 1985]

Nanney, David L. 1985. Heredity without genes: ciliate explorations of clonal heredity. Trends in Genetics, 1(November), 295-298. A review of earlier work. Places some formerly inexplicable results within recent advances in the standard molecular genetic framework, but points out that some findings, with Paramecia, among others, remains unexplained by that same framework.

 [Radman, 1999]

Radman, Miroslav. 1999. Enzymes of evolutionary change. Nature, 401(28 October), 866-869.

 [Radman et al., 1999]

Radman, Miroslav, Matic, Ivan, & Taddei, François. 1999. Evolution of evolvability. Pages 146-155 of: Caporale, L.H. (ed), Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 870.

 [Ridley, 1999]

Ridley, Matt. 1999. Genome: The Autobiography Of A Species In 23 Chapters. XX: HarperCollins. A nice account of the Human Genome Project so far. Omits much mention of the shortcomings, and spends most of the effort on celebration of what's been achieved.

 [Rosen, 1960]

Rosen, Robert. 1960. A Quantum-Theoretic Approach to Genetic Problems. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 22, 227-255. I don't know about the quantum part, but he expresses some interesting ambivalence about the dogma of DNA as the only important component to heredity.

 [Rosen, 1961]

Rosen, Robert. 1961. On The Role Of Chemical Systems In The Microphysical Aspects Of Primary Genetic Mechanisms. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 23, 393-403. Talks about whether DNA can be said to carry information in the Shannon sense. Concludes the answer may well be no, unless DNA is not static.

 [Scheid & Paszkowski, 2000]

Scheid, Ortrun Mittelsten, & Paszkowski, Jerzy. 2000. Transcriptional gene silencing mutants. Plant Molecular Biology, 43, 235-241.

 [Shapiro, 1999]

Shapiro, James A. 1999. Genome system architecture and natural genetic engineering in evolution. Pages 23-35 of: Caporale, L.H. (ed), Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 870. Contains a great figure about progress in understanding the lac operon.

 [Sutherland et al., 2000]

Sutherland, Heidi G.E., Kearns, Margot, Morgan, Hugh D., Headley, Alexander P., Morris, Christine, Martin, David I.K., & Whitelaw, Emma. 2000. Reactivation of heritably silenced gene expression in mice. Mammalian Genome, 11, 347-355. The authors observed differences among genotypically identical mice that were inherited. The mutation was reversible in later generations.

 [Tonegawa, 1983]

Tonegawa, Susumu. 1983. Somatic generation of antibody diversity. Nature, 302(14 April), 575-581. An account of genetic splicing to come up with the wide array of antibodies needed to generate a healthy immune system.

 [Venter et al., 2001]

Venter, J. Craig, et al. 2001. The sequence of the human genome. Science, 291(16 February), 1304-1351.

 [Waddington, 1942]

Waddington, C.H. 1942. Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters. Nature, 150(3811), 563-565. Makes the argument about ostrich callouses, which are formed while still in the egg. His point is that the ability to develop callouses implies a genetic readiness to have a `switch' turned on. Evolving a situation where the callouses can be formed in ovo is a case of the environmental triggering of the switch getting replaced by the genetic triggering.

 [Waddington, 1953]

Waddington, C.H. 1953. Genetic assimilation of an acquired character. Evolution, 7(June), 118-126. Experimental support of [Waddington, 1942]. Creates an environment where fruit flies acquire a trait due to temperature shock. He selected (manually) for those strains that most readily acquired the trait, then showed, that after several generations, he no longer needed the temperature shock: the trait was expressed from birth in normal individuals.

 [Waddington, 1968]

Waddington, C.H. 1968. The Basic Ideas of Biology. Pages 1-32 of: Waddington, C.H. (ed), Towards a Theoretical Biology: Prolegomena. International Union of Biological Sciences Symposium. A brilliant summation of the problems faced by the "central dogma" version of biological analysis.

 [Watson & Crick, 1953]

Watson, James D., & Crick, Francis H.C. 1953. Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Nature, 171(30 May), 964-967. The follow-up to the paper announcing the structure of DNA.

 [Wilkie, 1964]

Wilkie, D. 1964. The Cytoplasm in Heredity. XX: Methuen. An account of how cytoplasm may affect heredity. Predates the modern accounts of mitochondria and chloroplasts, but still has points to make about the intricacy and hidden aspects of the rest of the cytoplasm.

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