Alfred Sturtevant
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Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891–April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist, Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan.
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Key publications
- The linear arrangement of six sex-linked factors in Drosophila, as shown by their mode of association (http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/holdings/s/ahs-13.pdf). Journal of Experimental Zoology, 14: 43-59, 1913
- A History of Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Online Electronic Edition (http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/readbook.html)
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References
- Lewis, E.B. Alfred Henry Sturtevant (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/asturtevant.pdf), National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs
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