According to Wikipedia, Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. She developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas. One of those ideas was the notion of genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome to physical traits. She demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
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The Production of Homozygous Deficient Tissues with Mutant Characteristics by Means of the Aberrant Mitotic Behavior of Ring-Shaped Chromosomes. (1938) (446)
Topographical relations between elements of control systems in maize (1962) (94)
Maize genetics. (1946) (94)
Further Studies of Gene-Control Systems in Maize (1963) (87)
Controlled mutation in maize (1955) (83)
Components of action of the regulators Spm and Ac (1965) (79)
Genetic and cytological studies of maize (1959) (75)
Chromosome constitution of races of maize. Its significance in the interpretation of relationships between races and varieties in the Americas (1981) (71)
The Cytological Identification of the Chromosome Associated with the R-G Linkage Group in ZEA MAYS. (1931) (66)
The Cytological Identification of the Chromosomes Associated with the 'R-golden' and 'B-liguleless' Linkage Groups in Zea Mays (1)
System responsible for mutations at a1m-2 (1955) (1)
Continued Study of Stability of Location of Spm (1957) (1)
Transposition sequences of Ac (1955) (1)
Studies of instability of chromosome behavior of components of a modified chromosome 9 (1956) (1)
Continuation of Transposition of Ac; and its Relation to Somatic Sectoring and to Controls of Mutation of Mutable Genes (1954) (0)
Polypoidy in Zea mays L. (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Peter A. Peterson (1972) (0)
"Mode of Operation of a System of Controlling Elements in Maize" (Appendix) (1956) (0)
ASPECTS OF GEKE REGULATIOK IN MAIZE (2001) (0)
[Unpublished index of corn specimens] (section 4, image 4) (1971) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Marcus M. Rhoades (1950) (0)
The sixth volume of Essays of an Information Scientist contained all of my essays published during the previous year in Current Contents (1998) (0)
A suppressor-mutator system of control of genic action and mutational change (1955) (0)
"Mode of Operation of a System of Controlling Elements in Maize" (pages 1-31) (1956) (0)
The Origin and Behavior of c-m2; The Origin and Behavior of wx-m1 (1954) (0)
Principles Derived from Study of Bacterial and Phage Genetic Systems (1964) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to William L. Brown (1959) (0)
Further study of Ac control of mutation at the bronze locus in chromosome 9 (1956) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to F. G. Brieger (1962) (0)
Memorandum from Barbara McClintock to William L. Brown (1962) (0)
Gene Control Mechanisms in Higher Organisms: Two Common Types and Several Special Types (1964) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt and Evelyn Stern (1934) (0)
:.HE PRODUCTION OF HOMOZYGOUS DEFICIENT TISSUES ,’ WITH MUTAST CHARACTERISTICS BY ME-AX’S OF i \ THE ABERRANT MITOTIC BEHAVIOR OF RING-SHAPED CHROMOSOIMES* (2001) (0)
How Chromosomes Have Been Used to Trace the Origin and Migration of Races of Maize in the Americas (1980) (0)
List of McClintock publications (1984) (0)
Continuation of Inheritance Behavior in Ac (1954) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Oliver E. Nelson, Jr. (1970) (0)
Six Plants Examined in Each Race (1963) (0)
Continuation of Transposition of Ds; Locations of Ds in Short Arm of Chromosome 9. The Missing Regions; Why. The States of Ds (1954) (0)
Gene-Control Mechanisms in Higher Organisms. Part II (1964) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Harold Frank Robinson (1962) (0)
A METHOD FOR MAKING ACETO-CARMIN SMEARS (1997) (0)
The Inheritance Behavior and the Mode of Action of Ac (1954) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to W. Ronnie Coffman (1990) (0)
Introduction to Study of Variegation in Maize (1954) (0)
MUTABLE LOCI IN MAIZE t, (2001) (0)
Alteration of Gene Action by Genetic Mechanisms (1958) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Almiro Blumenschein (1966) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to George W. Beadle (1972) (0)
"Memorandum to Marcus Rhoades (about the Ds Locus)" [pages 26-54] (1949) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Curt Stern (1933) (0)
MUTABLE LOCI IN (2001) (0)
Spread of Mutation Change Along Chromosome. The a1 m-1; a1 m-2 Control Systems (1954) (0)
Conclusions on c-m1; Outline of bz-m1; Begin c-m2 (1954) (0)
BOTANY: CREIGHTON A ND McCLINTOCK hoc. N. A. S. THE CORRELATION OF CYTOLOGICAL AND GENETICAL CROSSING-OVER IN ZEA MA YS. A CORROBORATION (2001) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Angel Kato (1964) (0)
The Mechanism of Transposition of Ds; Origin and Behavior of cm-1 (1954) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Charles R. Burnham (1931) (0)
Draft of letter from Barbara McClintock to Angel Kato (1970) (0)
Letter from Barbara McClintock to Joshua Lederberg (1948) (0)
The Interpretation of Origin and Behavior of the Controlling Systems (1954) (0)
The Breakage-fusion-bridge Cycle and the Origin of Instability at Gene Loci (1954) (0)
Review of Previous Discussions (1954) (0)
The Genetic Location and Cytological Behavior of Ds (1954) (0)
Further study of the a1m-1 Spm system (1956) (0)
THE ORDER OF THE GENES C, Sh AND Wx IN ZEA MA YS WITH REFERENCE TO A CYTOLOGICALLY KNOWN POINT IN THE CHROMOSOME BY BARBARA MCCLINTOCE (2001) (0)
"The Ds Locus. Part III. Transposition of the Ds Locus" (pages 51-77) (1949) (0)