1902–1992 American geneticist who established maize cytogenetics and discovered genetic transposition.
Keywords: maize; genetics; cytology; transposition; controlling elements
McClintock, Barbara
Nathaniel Comfort, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002873
| Further Reading | |
| McClintock B (1929) Chromosome morphology in Zea mays. Science 69: 629. | |
| McClintock B (1934) The relation of a particular chromosomal element to the development of the nucleoli in Zea mays. Zeitschrift für Zellforschung und Mikroskopiche Anatomie 21: 294–328. | |
| book McClintock B (1987) The Discovery and Characterization of Transposable Elements: The Collected Papers of Barbara McClintock. New York: Garland. | |
| Comfort NC (1995) Two genes, no enzyme: a second look at Barbara McClintock and the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium. Genetics 140: 1161–1166. | |
| Comfort NC (1999) ‘The real point is control’: The reception of Barbara McClintock's controlling elements. Journal of the History of Biology 32: 133–162. | |
| book Comfort NC (2001) Controlling Elements: The Development of Barbara McClintock and Genetic Transposition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Fedoroff N and Botstein D (eds) (1992) The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | |
| Kass LB and Provine WB (1997) Genetics in the roaring 20's: The influence of Cornell's professors and curriculum on Barbara McClintock's development as a cytogeneticist. American Journal of Botany 84: 123. | |
| Keirns C (1999) Seeing patterns: Models, visual evidence and pictorial communication in the work of Barbara McClintock. Journal of the History of Biology 32: 163–196. | |
| book Keller EF (1993) A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, 2nd edn. New York: WH Freeman. | |
