Sterling Howard Emerson
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American geneticist
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Sterling Howard Emerson's Degrees
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- PhD Genetics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sterling Howard Emerson was an American geneticist. Emerson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951. Life Sterling Howard Emerson was born on October 29, 1900 in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Rollins Adams Emerson and Harriet Hardin. Emerson was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1922, and admitted as a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1928. Emerson was the professor of genetics at the California Institute of Technology from 1928 to 1971. Emerson died on May 2, 1988, in Altadena, California.
Sterling Howard Emerson's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Preliminary Survey of the Oenothera Organensis Population. (1939) (132)
- The Genetics of Self-Incompatibility in Oenothera Organensis. (1938) (97)
- THE GROWTH PHASE IN NEUROSPORA CORRESPONDING TO THE LOGARITHMIC PHASE IN UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS (1950) (84)
- Growth of Incompatible Pollen Tubes in Oenothera organensis (1940) (71)
- PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, AND REVERSION OF PROTOPLAST-LIKE STRUCTURES IN THE OSMOTIC STRAIN OF NEUROSPORA CRASSA. (1958) (55)
- Further Studies of Crossing over in Attached-X Chromosomes of Drosophila Melanogaster. (1935) (49)
- Gene Conversion in the Pasadena Strain of ASCOBOLUS IMMERSUS. (1967) (34)
- Quantitative implications of the DNA-repair model of gene conversion. (1966) (32)
- Genetics as a Tool for Studying Gene Structure (1945) (30)
- Growth Responses of a Sulfonamide-requiring Mutant Strain of Neurospora (1947) (29)
- The Induction of Mutations by Antibodies. (1944) (26)
- Competitive reactions and antagonisms in the biosynthesis of amino acids by neurospora. (1950) (24)
- Slime a plasmodioid variant ofNeurospora crassa (1964) (21)
- A Physiological Basis for Some Suppressor Mutations and Possibly for One Gene Heterosis. (1948) (20)
- The Inheritance of Certain Characters in Oenothera Hybrids of Different Chromosome Configurations. (1931) (18)
- The Linkage Relations of Certain Genes in Oenothera. (1932) (16)
- Altered sulfonamide antagonism in Neurospora. (1946) (14)
- Genetic and cytological Studies onOenothera. III (1931) (14)
- The Genetic Nature of de Vries's Mutations in Oenothera Lamarckiana (1935) (13)
- Linkage Relationship of Two Gametophytic Characters in Oenothera Organensis. (1941) (12)
- Biochemical models of heterosis in Neurospora. (1952) (12)
- Crossing-over near the spindle fiber in attached-X chromosomes ofDrosophila melanogaster (1933) (10)
- The Trisomic Derivatives of Oenothera Lamarckiana. (1936) (10)
- ALFRED HENRY STURTEVANT (November 21, 1891-April 6, 1970) (1971) (8)
- Chromosome Rings on Oenothera, Drosophila and Maize. (1932) (8)
- THE INHERITANCE OF RUBRICALYX BUD COLOR IN CROSSES WITH OENOTHERA LAMARCKIANA. (1930) (8)
- Genetic and cytological studies onOenothera. II (1931) (7)
- Parasynapsis and Apparent Chiasma Formation in Oenothera (1931) (5)
- A genetic and cytological analysis ofOenothera pratincola and one of its revolute-leaved mutations (1936) (4)
- Genetic nature of the slime variant of Neurospora crassa (1963) (3)
- The use of heterocaryons in the maintenance of slime stocks of Neurospora crassa, and a method for the re-isolation of slime from heterocaryons (1963) (1)
- The Genetics of Micro-Organisms . D. G. Catcheside. New York-London: Pitman, 1951. 223 pp. $4.50. (1952) (0)
- Sex in Microorganisms . A symposium presented 30 Dec. 1951 at the Philadelphia meeting of the AAAS. D. H. Wenrich, Ivey F. Lewis, and John R. Raper, Eds. AAAS, Washington 5, 1954. 362 pp. Illus. $5.75 (Members, $5). (1955) (0)
- The Genetics of Micro-Organisms. D. G. Catcheside.New York-London: Pitman, 1951. 223 pp. $4.50 (1952) (0)
- Letter from Sterling Emerson to Joshua Lederberg (1945) (0)
- THE INHERITANCE OF RUBRICAL YX BUD COLOR IN CROSSES WITH OENOTHERA LAMARCKIANA 1 (0)
- Interview with James Bonner, Sterling Emerson, Norman Horowitz and Donald Poulson (1981) (0)
- Frequencies of Pre-and Post-reduction of the Sex Chromosome and an Autosome of Bombyx mori Based on Goldschmidt and Katsuki's Studies of Gynandromorphs and Mosaics (1954) (0)
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