Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #jumpinggenes

Most recents (1)

#PlantScienceClassics #5: “Jumping Genes”. In 1950 Barbara McClintock published her landmark @PNASNews paper on the #Maize Dissociation (DS) & Activator (Ac) #TransposableElements, revolutionizing the field of #Genetics to hostile opposition from her peers.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.3… A portrait of Barbara McCli...
McClintock started her career & work on #Maize in the 1920s @Cornell, where she immediately made an impact by optimizing chromosome staining methods to characterize the chromosomes of triploid maize in 1929, & then describing the physical basis for chromosomal crossover in 1931. An image showing chromosome...
In 1941 she relocated to @CSHL, where she worked on chromosome breaks in maize. When characterizing a specific break on chromosome 9, she noticed that the break was always associated with a locus she named Dissociation (DS), which could change its position on the chromosome. Phenotypes of kernels that ...
Read 9 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!