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Add MS 86725
- Record Id:
- 040-000538201
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000274.0x0000ff
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86725
- Title:
- Allan Wilson
- Scope & Content:
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Some items are undated.
Folder marked 'Haldane Lecture'. Contents include:
- Acetate entitled 'Haldane 1931'.
- References to article on group selection.
- Handwritten notes relating to Haldane, the continuous-discontinuous argument, population genetics and to the evolution of altruism.
- Programme for the centenary meeting at the Science museum of the Royal Society for JBS Haldane 10-11 Apr 1992.
Folder marked 'Allan Wilson'. Contents include:
- Letter to Maynard Smith from John A. Burns; 12 Aug 1992.
- Letter to the friends, relatives and family of Allan Wilson from Jim Lake; 24 Jul 1991. Includes obituary for the American Journal of Human Genetics. Also included are obituaries published in varied newspapers and journals.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Linda Maxon; 22 Sep 1992. Included is an orbituary published in Nature, 353 (1991), 19.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Howard Ochman; 14 Dec 1991.
- Letter to Linda Maxon from Randy Schekman; 10 Apr 1992.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Randy Schekman; 27 March 1992. The following articles are attached:
- Rebecca Andrews, ‘FASEB Honors Berkeley Biochemist for his “Mitochondrial Eve” research’, The Scientist, 22 (1991).
- Ann Gibbons, ‘Systematic goes molecular’, Science, 251 (1991), 872-874.
- Thomas Juke, ‘Remembering Allan Wilson’, Journal of Molecular Evolution, 33 (1991).
- Gunther S. Stent, ‘Bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up Allan C. Wilson, 1934-1991’, The New Biologist, 3 (1991), 911-913.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from W. Kelley Thomas (University of California, Berkeley) enclosing photographs; 15 Jul 1992.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from P.T. Warren; 31 Oct 1991. Enclosed are guidelines for writing bibliographical memoirs.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from P.T Warren; 13 Nov 1991.
- Note from John Wehausen (Chair committee on Memorial Resolutions) attached to an article about Allan Charles Wilson produced by the University of California: ‘Allan Charles Wilson, Biochemistry; Molecular Biology: Berkeley", by Bruce N. Ames, Thomas H. Jukes, Vincent M. Sarich, David B. Wake in University of California: In Memoriam, 1991.
- Note from Randy enclosing an orbituary for Bioessay, Journal of Molecular Biology, New York Times and the New Zeland Herald; 27 Nov 1991.
- Note that was read at Wilson's memorial service; Sep 1991.
- Obituaries for Mother Tongue and Human Biology.
- List of publications from A.C. Wilson's laboratory (1966-).
- CV for Allan Wilson.
- Photocopy of Allan Wilson's degree of Doctor of Science from University of Otago.
- Handwritten notes relating to JSB Haldane.
- Photocopies of press articles relating to Allan Wilson and his theories 1978-1991.
Loose items:
- Letter to Maynard Smith from Adam Lomnicki; 5 Jul 1999.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from W. Kelley Thomas; 26 May 1992.
- Includes a list of publications by Allan C. Wilson's laboratory (1966-date).
- Note to Maynard Smith from W. Kelley Thomas (University of California, Berkeley); undated. Attached are:
- Allan C. Wilson et al., 'Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics', The Linnean Society of London, 26 (1985), 375-400.
- Richard D. Sage, Donald Heyneman, Kee-Chong Lin and Allan C.Wilson, 'Wormy mice in a hybrid zone', Nature, 324 (1986), 60-3.
- Allan C. Wilson, Howard Ochman and Ellen M. Prager, 'Molecular time scale for evolution', Trends in Genetics, 3 (1987), 241-7.
- Rob DeSalle, Toby Freedman, Ellen M. Prager, and Allan C. Wilson, 'Tempo and mode of sequence evolution in mitochondrial DNA of Hawaiian Drosophila', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 26 (1987), 157-164.
- Higuchi Paabo and Allan C. Wilson, 'Ancient DNA and the polymerase chain reaction', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 264 (1989), 9709-9712.
- Kelly Thomas, John Maa, Allan C. Wilson, 'Shifting constraints on tRNA genes during mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals', The New Biologist, 1 (1989), 93-100.
- Sage, Prager, Tichy and Wilson, 'Mitochondrial DNA variation in house mice', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 41 (1990), 105-123.
- Axel Meyer, Thomas D. Kocher, Perti Basasibwaki, Allan C. Wilson, ‘Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences‘, Nature, 347 (1990), 550-3.
- Kelley Thomas, Paabo, Villablanca, Wilson, 'Spatial and temporal continuity of kangaroo rat populations shown by sequencing mitochondrial DNA from museum specimens', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 31 (1990), 101-112.
- Allan C.Wilson, 'Will sequencing the human genome revolutionize biology?', The New Biologist, 2 (1990), 585-6.
- Wilson and Rienzo, 'Branching pattern in the evolutionary tree for human mitochondrial DNA', Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Science USA, 88 (1991), 1597-1601.
- Allan C.Wilson, 'From molecular evolution to body and brain evolution', in Perspectives on cellular regulation: From bacteria to cancer, ed. by M. Inouye, J. Campisi, D. Cunningham and M. Riley (New York: Wiley-Liss Inc., 1991), pp. 331-340.
- Kelley Thomas and Wilson, 'Mode and tempo of molecular evolution in the nematode caenorhabditis: Cytochrome oxidase II and calmodulin sequences', Genetics, 128 (1991), 269-279.
- Allan Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann, ‘The recent African genesis of humans’, Scienctific American, 1992, 68-73.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000538201 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86725 : Allan Wilson - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0133]/040-000538201
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 2 sub-folders and 17 loose items approximately
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1985
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 1985-1999
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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