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Theophilus Shickel
Painter (1889-1969)
By: Dorothy Haskett
| Published: Nov 22, 2014
Theophilus Shickel Painter studied the structure and function of chromosomes in the US during in the early to mid-twentieth century. Painter worked…
ChromosomesKaryotypesSex ChromosomesGeneticsLinkage (Genetics)
Victor Jollos (1887-1941)
By: B. R. Erick Peirson
| Published: Sep 16, 2014
Victor Jollos studied fruit flies and microorganisms in Europe and the US, and he introduced the concept of Dauermodifikationen in the early 1900s.…
ParameciumDrosophilaHeredityProtistaprotozoology
Boris Ephrussi (1901-1979)
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Boris Ephrussi studied fruit flies, yeast, and mouse genetics and development while working in France and the US during the twentieth century. In…
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.MutationTissue cultureDrosophilaTissue Transplantation
Beadle and Ephrussi's Transplantation Technique for Drosophila
By: Divyash Chhetri
| Published: Jun 29, 2014
Boris Ephrussi and George Wells Beadle developed a transplantation technique on flies, Drosophila melanogaster, which they described in their 1936…
TechnologyTissue ExtractsGenesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Tissue Transplantation
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- )
By: May Catherine, Jack Resnik
| Published: Feb 16, 2012
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard studied how genes control embryonic development in flies and in fish in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first…
DrosophilaEmbryologyGenesMorphogenesisRNA polymerases
Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the…
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