Mutation : the history of an idea from Darwin to genomics /
Elof Axel Carlson.
- Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2011.
- viii, 163 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A brief overview of the concept of mutation -- Ideas of mutation before there was a Mendelian basis for genetics -- Cytological and Mendelian aspects of mutation -- The fly lab redefines mutation -- Radiation and the analysis of mutation by mutagenesis -- Using biochemical approaches to study mutation -- Mutation in relation to gene structure -- Mutation in relation to evolution -- Mutation in relation to genetic engineering -- Mutation in relation to society -- Mutation in relation to history and philosophy of science.