Cytogenetics / edited by Ronald L. Phillips, Charles R. Burnham.

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[1977], ©1977
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    Preface genetical and cytological evidence. They also are those that had an impact on the field, although not necessarily ones that first advanced a particular idea. The reader should be aware that the field did not move ahead only through published accounts. Personal contacts and idea exchanges be¬ tween members of laboratories at meetings and through correspondence were important in stimulating further advances. Early textbooks also were instrumental in disseminating ideas. This volume is divided into seven sections: Chromosome Individu¬ ality, Morphology, Structure, and Number; Chromosome Replication; Chromosome Pairing; Crossing-over; Chromosome Function; Chromo¬ some Behavior; and Genetical and Cytological Mapping. For each section the reprinted papers are preceded by a Historical Perspectives narra¬ tive and by Editors' Comments that emphasize certain important aspects of each paper. A total of 49 papers is included; 34 in full and 15 from which only excerpts are reprinted because of the lengths of the original papers. Two papers were translated from German and one from French. All three translations were checked by professionals. The reprinted papers encompass seven decades; 3 papers originally published in the decade of 1901-1910, 4 in 1911-1920, 11 in 1921-1930, 13 in 1931-1940, 5 in 1941-1950, 7 in 1951-1960, and 6 in 1961-1970. The papers represent research conducted in England, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States. Of the 49 papers, 18 deal with ani¬ mals, 28 with plants, 1 with both plants and animals, 1 with a prokaryote, and 1 strictly with theory. We gratefully acknowledge the responses of C. D. Darlington, T. C. Hsu, H. Kihara, E. B. Lewis, B. McClintock, A. Müntzing, M. M. Rhoades, and R. Riley to our request for their opinions on our earlier list of tenta¬ tive selections. Full responsibility for the contents of this volume, of course, rests on the editors. We hope the reader enjoys the overall perspective of cytogenetics presented in this volume as much as we enjoyed the collation of the in¬ formation. RONALD L. PHILLIPS CHARLES R. BURNHAM via