The Biological Laboratory — Heredity and Variation in Microorganisms

Cold Spring Harbor xi,314, text figs. . HB. 4to, orig cloth. Good ex-lib.. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. XI. A landmark collection in the history of genetics, recording the emergence of microorganisms and bacteriophages as experimental systems for the study of heredity. Particularly notable for Lederberg and Tatum’s preliminary report of genetic recombination in Escherichia coli, one of the founding discoveries of bacterial genetics. The symposium brought together pioneering work by Delbrück, Hershey, Luria and others on mutation, bacterial variation and bacteriophage genetics, and marks an important stage in the development of modern molecular biology..