Correspondence between Pontecorvo and Dr Sterling Howard Emerson discussing Pontecorvo's plan to produce heterozygous diploids in Neurosporan with Dr Joseph Alan Roper and the difficulties in achieving this
- Date:
- Feb 1952
- Reference:
- UGC 198/3/1/22
- Part of:
- Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Description
He writes "I have had full success in applying the technique of genetic analysis via somatic crossing over to Aspergillus niger, which is a completely asexual species".
Publication/Creation
Feb 1952
Physical description
3 letters (4 pages)
Biographical note
Emerson was a pioneer of corn genetics. At the time of writing Emerson was on leave from the Californian Instiute of Technology (where he was employed for most of his career) and working at the University of Cambridge supervising graduate students for David Catcheside, who was himself on sabbatical.
Terms of use
Open and available at Glasgow University Archive Services.
.Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
Where to find it
Location of original
The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.