Genetics behind barbed wire: Masuo Kodani, émigré geneticists, and wartime genetics research at Manzanar relocation center

Genetics

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 357-366

  Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN AMERICAN; CAREER; CYTOGENETICS; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIST; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; GENETIC RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 79951520648     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.126128     Document Type: Review

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