A combination of automated screening and next-generation sequencing makes it possible to identify Caenorhabditis elegans mutants at unprecedented speed and scale. Certain attributes of C. elegans, ...

Elof A. Carlson has added another important book to his list of publications on the history of genetics. Mendel's Legacy, in one sense a follow-up to Carlson's much earlier but still very useful The ...

What is classical genetics? -- Routes to classical genetics: evolution -- Routes to classical genetics: cytology -- Routes to classical genetics: embryology and reproduction -- Routes to classical ...

We present a reconstruction of so-called classical, formal or Mendelian genetics using a notation which we believe is more legible than that of earlier accounts, and lends itself easily to computer ...