An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Genetic control of the cell-division cycle in yeast 1. Detection of mutants.

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 66, 352-59, 1970.

This was the first paper to describe cdc mutants. The authors also coined the term 'execution point' — the stage in the cell cycle when the gene function is required. In this paper, three cdc genes were described, which paved the way for the identification of many more such genes, and for the discovery of the molecules and mechanisms controlling the cell

Order of authorship in the original publication: Hartwell, Culotti, Reid. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link .



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, GENETICS / HEREDITY
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