Mapping and seeing: Barbara McClintock and the linking of genetics and cytology in maize genetics, 1928-35

Classical Genetic Research and its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 91-118

  Kass, Lee B ^a   Bonneuil, Christophe ^b  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203375297     Document Type: Chapter

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