TY - BOOK ID - 77869626 TI - Reconceiving the gene AU - Holmes, Frederic Lawrence AU - Summers, William C PY - 2006 SN - 1281730475 9786611730475 030012970X 9780300129700 0300110782 9780300110784 9781281730473 6611730478 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Geneticists KW - Bacteriophages KW - Viral genetics KW - Virus genetics KW - Viruses KW - Microbial genetics KW - Microbiologists KW - Genetics. KW - History. KW - Genetics KW - Benzer, Seymour. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869626 AB - This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer's accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to have led geneticists from the classical gene into the molecular age. Drawing on Benzer's remarkably complete record of his experiments, his correspondence, and published sources, this book reconstructs how the former physicist initiated his work in phage biology and achieved his landmark investigation. The account of Benzer's creativity as a researcher is a fascinating story that also reveals intriguing aspects common to the scientific enterprise. ER -