Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Linsday S Olive commenting on Pontecorvo's recent paper on Aspergillus and Olive's interest to learn more about relative heterothallism

Date:
Dec 1953-Sep 1954
Reference:
UGC 198/3/1/36
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Papers of Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo, geneticist, Professor of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Bundle of correspondence between Pontecorvo and Professor Linsday S Olive commenting on Pontecorvo's recent paper on Aspergillus and Olive's interest to learn more about relative heterothallism. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Pontecorvo also writes about his study into diploids and vegetative recombination using Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium chrysogenum, and how this study has "now confirmed the existence of what I have called "para-sexual" cycle".

Bundle also contains brief correspondence between Pontecorvo and the editor ofScientific Monthlywho asked Pontecorvo for his comments on an article by Dr Harry E Wheeler on the Genetics of Homothallic Fungi. Draft of Pontecorvo's response statement is also included.

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Dec 1953-Sep 1954

Physical description

8 letters, 1 draft paper (14 pages)

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Open and available at Glasgow University Archive Services.

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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.

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