Sturtevant, Alfred Henry

EG Winchester, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002922

1891–1970 American naturalist and geneticist who invented the idea of the genetic map.

Keywords: genetics; evolution; Drosophila; chromosome maps; Morgan

Figure 1. Alfred Henry Sturtevant (1891–1970).
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 Further Reading
    Sturtevant AH (1913) The linear arrangement of six sex-linked factors in Drosophila as shown by their mode of association. Journal of Experimental Zoology 14: 43–59.
    book Sturtevant AH (1965) A History of Genetics. New York: Harper & Row.
    Crow JF (1998) A diamond anniversary: the first chromosome map. Genetics 118: 1–3.
    book Lewis EB (ed.) (1961) Genetics and Evolution: Selected Papers of A. H. Sturtevant. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.
    Lewis EB (1998) Alfred Henry Sturtevant. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science 73: 348–362.
    Provine WB (1991) Alfred Henry Sturtevant and Crosses between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. Genetics 129: 1–5.

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Winchester, EG(Apr 2001) Sturtevant, Alfred Henry. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002922]