Phage and the origins of molecular biology/
edited by John Cairns, Gunther S. Stent, James D. Watson.
- 1st ed.
- New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2007.
- xviii, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
I ORIGINS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1 Introduction: Waiting for the Paradox 2 A Physicist Looks at Biology 3 Biochemical Genetics: Some Recollections 4 The Target Theory 5 High Energy Phosphate Bonds: Optional or Obligatory?
II THE PHAGE RENAISSANCE 6 Bacteriophage: One-Step Growth 7 Electron Microscopy of Phages 8 The Eclipse in the Bacteriophage Life Cycle 9 The Prophage and I 10 The Injection of DNA into Cells by Phage 11 Transfer of Parental Material to Progeny 12 Electron Microscopy of Developing Bacteriophage
III PHAGE GENETICS 13 Phenotypic Mixing 14 Mating Theory 15 On the Physical Basis of Genetic Structure in Bacteriophage 16 Adventures in the rII Region 17 Conditional Lethals
IV BACTERIAL GENETICS 18 Mutations of Bacteria and of Bacteriphage 19 Gene, Transforming Principle, and DNA 20 Sexual Differentiation in Bacteria 21 Bacterial Conjugation 22 Story and Structure of the l Transducing Phage
V DNA 23 Growing Up in the Phage Group 24 Demonstration of the Semiconservative Mode of DNA Duplication 25 The Autoradiography of DNA 26 Multum in Parvo 27 The Relation between Nuclear and Cellular Division in Escherichia coli
VI RAMIFICATIONS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 28 The Mammalian Cell 29 The Plaque Technique and the Development of Quantitative Animal Virology 30 Quantitatitve Tumor Virology 31 The Natural Selection Theory of Antibody Formation: Ten Years Later 32 Cybernetics of the Insect Optomotor Response 33 Teminal Redundancy, or All's Well that Ends Well
VII REPRINTS 35 How Molecular Biology Started 36 That Was the Molecular Biology That Was 37 Max Delbrück, 1906-1981