- Further Genetic Reading
- Genetics of the Dog
- by Malcolm B. Willis, published by Howell Book House
- The basic text of Canine Genetics. It is more a book related to understand
the overview of genetics, and to obtain a general view of conditions and
diseases in dogs.
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- Breeding Better Dogs
- by Carmelo L. Battaglia, PhD, published by BEI Publishing
- A very well thought out book, giving much of the information contained
in his seminars.Highly recommended for its practical approach to breeding
dogs based on realistic genetic principles.
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- GENETICS - a Molecular Approach
- by T.A. Brown, PhD, published by Chapman & Hall
- An excellent, detailed text which gives the molecular approach to teaching
genetics. It is quite technical, and assumes a moderate amount of understanding
of biochemistry. For those who have sufficient background, it is an excellent
reference.
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- Origins of Mendelism
- by R. Olby, published by University of Chicago Press
- An somewhat interesting book giving the background and describing the
experiments that gave rise to Mendel's theories and Laws of Genetics.
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- The Path to the Double Helix
- by R. Olby, published by McMillan
- A good summary of the developments in genetics during the 20th Century,
charting the history of genetics and molecular biology.
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- The Double Helix
- by J.D. Watson, published by Anthenum
- An interesting book giving Watson's own account of the events leading
up to the discovery of the double helix theory
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- "How cells divide"
- by D. Mazia, an article in Scientific American, vol 205(3), pp 100-120,
1961
- "The cell cycle"
- by D. Mazia, an article in Scientific American, vol 230(1), pp 54-64,
1974
- Two very good review articles which describe the cellular events and
mechanisms surrounding the cell reproductive cycle of mitosis and meiosis.
Basic reading which you should have.
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- "Genetic recombination"
- by F. Stahl, an article in Scientific American, vol 256(2), pp 53-63,
1987
- A review of the science involved with genetic recombination; it is
a good article which makes this complex subject a bit easier to understand.
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- "The proteins"
- by R.F. Dolittle, an article in Scientific American, vol 216(5), pp
80-94, 1985.
- An interesting article on protein structure, with some information
relating to genetic coding of the production of protein chains.
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- "Genetic regulatory mechanism in the synthesis of
proteins"
- by F. Jacob and J. Monod, a scientific paper in J. of Molecular Biology,
vol 3, pp 318-356, 1961
- The classic paper which describes and proposes the "operon theory"
of the regulation of protein synthesis. It is very scientific, but an excellent
paper none-the-less.
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- Gene Regulation: A Eukaryotic Perspective
- by D. Latchman, published by Unwin Hyman
- An excellent textbook which gives a fuller understanding of gene regulation
in complex eukaryotic cell systems. Eukaryotic cells are those characterized
by membrane bound nuclei, which includes all mammalian species.