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The Meiotic System

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Authors:
  1. Bernard John

    1. Department of Genetics, The University, Birmingham, England

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  2. Kenneth R. Lewis

    1. Botany School, The University, Oxford, England

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Part of the book series: Protoplasmatologia Cell Biology Monographs (PROTOPLASMATOL., volume 6 / F / 1)

Part of the book sub series: Kern- und Zellteilung (2124)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 3-3

  3. Descriptive

    1. Meiosis in Male Chorthippus

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 4-14

    2. Patterns of Variation in Chiasma Formation

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 14-27

    3. Structural Abnormalities at Meiosis

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 27-66

    4. Structural Variants

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 66-102

    5. Meiosis in Numerical Mutants

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 102-134

    6. Meiosis in Organisms with Non-localised Centric Systems

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 134-147

    7. Meiosis in Species Hybrids

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 147-167

    8. Meiotic Behaviour of Special Chromosomes

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 167-201

  4. Analytical

    1. Chromosome Duplication and Pairing

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 201-204

    2. Chiasma Formation

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 204-223

    3. Coiling

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 223-242

    4. Chromosome Movement and Segregation

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 242-253

    5. The Control of Meiosis

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 253-291

    6. The Regulation of Meiosis

      • Bernard John, Kenneth R. Lewis
      Pages 291-298

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 298-337
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Introduction When the study of heredity and variation first came to be treated as a scientific subject-and this, one must remember, was only just over a hundred years ago-there was an unfortunate separation between the disciplines of cytology and experimental breeding. This separation was based partly on a lack of understanding and partly on a lack of the desire to understand. Even WILLIAM BATESON, the first apostle of mendelism in England, had a blind spot for cytology and for many years dogmatically refused to believe that MENDEL'S determinants were transmitted and distributed by the chromosomes. This separation between cytology and experimental breeding is one which persists, in a measure, even today, simply because there are two quite different, though complementary, techniques available for the study of heredity and variation. On the one hand, one can study directly the structure and behaviour of the actual vehicles which transmit the genetic determinants from one generation to the next. This is the method employed by those who study genetics through a microscope. The alternative method is that used by the experimental breeder who, in default of being able to watch the hereditary factors segregate from each other directly, is obliged to examine the constitution of the germ cells indirectly by sampling, and usually at random, the products of a controlled mating.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Genetics, The University, Birmingham, England

    Bernard John

  • Botany School, The University, Oxford, England

    Kenneth R. Lewis

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