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Episode 004 - Barbara McClintock | Cytogeneticist

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Alternate Title: The A-MAIZE-ing Race

Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned.

Sources:

Main Story - Barbara McClintock  

A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller

  • The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort
  • The Barbara McClintock Papers - NIH  https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/LL/p-nid/45
  • Biography by Cold Spring Harbor Labs http://library.cshl.edu/sp/scientists/barbara_mcclintock/mcclintock_biography.html
  • Biography by American National Biography http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1302550



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    Shoutout #1

    1. Larger spleens may help ‘sea nomads’ stay underwater longer: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/larger-spleens-help-bajau-divers-stay-underwater-longer?tgt=nr
  • M. Ilardo et al. Physiological and genetic adaptations to diving in sea nomads. Cell. Published online April 19, 2018. doi:10/1016/j.cell.2018.03.054

    • Shoutout #2

    1. Male Fruit Flies Love to Cum, and Turn to Alcohol If They Can't: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43b87b/male-fruit-flies-love-to-cum-and-turn-to-alcohol-if-they-cant
  • S. Zer-Krispil et al. Ejaculation induced by the activation of Crz neurons is rewarding to Drosophila males. Current Biology. Vol. 28, May 7, 2018.  doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.03.039.

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    Trivia

    Article: “Almost a Fellow…” by the Royal Society

    http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2012/03/08/almost-a-fellow/

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