Concept 32 Some DNA can jump.

Links

Transposable Genetic Elements

From North Dakota State University's Phil McClean, this web site has summaries of transposable elements found in different organisms. Dr. McClean teaches genetics at North Dakota State University.

Jumping Jordan Gene

A news brief appearing in Access Excellence's web site about how researchers named a transposon after Michael Jordan, the basketball star.

Bibliography

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• Keller, E. F., 1983, A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
• McClintock, B., 1931, The Order of the Genes C, Sh and Wx in Zea mays with Reference to a Cytologically Known Point in the Chromosome, Botany, 17: 485-491.
• McClintock, B., and Creighton, H.B., 1931, A Correlation of Cytological and Genetical Crossing-over in Zea mays, Botany, 17: 492-497.
• McClintock, B., 1932, A Correlation of Ring-shaped Chromosomes with Variegation in Zea mays, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 18: 677-681.
• McClintock, B., 1965, The Control of Gene Action in Maize, Genetic Control of Differentiation, Brookhaven Symposia in Biology, 18: 162-183.
• McClintock, B., 1984, The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge, Science, 226: 792-801.