Add MS 86827

Some items are undated.

Folder marked 'Redundancy 2-locus case'. Contents include:

• Fax to Maynard Smith from Martin Novak (Department of Zoology, University Oxford); 12 Jul 1996.
• Computer printout for 'progs.redund'; 25 Jun 1996.
• Handwritten notes relating to the 'simple model'; Jun 1996.
• Handwritten 'comments on the "survival time" of redundancy'.
• Handwritten workings out relating to symmetric case.
• Handwritten equations.
• Handwritten notes and figures relating to 'redundancy - haploid case'.

Folder marked 'Redundancy 3-locus, 3-functions'

• Handwritten notes relating to redundancy and pleiotropy, Jun 1996.
• Handwritten notes and diagrams relating to B-locus simulations, 14 Oct 1996.
• Computer printout relating to the genetic load.
• Handwritten notes, diagrams and computer printouts relating to program 'red5' for Qbasic.
• Handwritten notes, diagrams and computer printouts.
• Computer printout of three runs of a program.

Folder marked 'Functional redundancy – drafts, correspondence, Jonathon Cook'. Contents include:

• Letter to Maynard Smith from an unidentified author, possibly Jonathon Cook; 27 Nov 1984.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Jonathon Cook; 30 Jun 1994.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Jonathon Cook; 11 Nov 1994.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Jonathon Cook; 4 Jun 1996? Relates to the content of a letter from Mark Patterson (Editor, Trends in Genetics); 23 May 1996 (photocopy).
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Jonathon Cook; 6 Jun 1996. Enclosed are typewritten notes by Jonathon Cook for Maynard Smith relating to T[rends] I[n] G[enetics] article with possible title 'Can functionally redundant genes or gene expression patterns survive during evolution of vertebrate development?'
• Note from G.A. Dover’s secretary to Maynard Smith; undated. Enclosing the proof for ‘The unfathomable ignorance of DNA’ and 'Evolution of genetic redundancy for advanced players', Current opinion in Genetics and Development, 3 (1993), 902-910.
• Handwritten notes relating to redundancy; Jun 1996.
• Manuscript 'How can the redundancy of developmental systems be maintained' – draft; Jul 1996.
• Printed instructions to authors from 'Trends in Genetics'.
• Handwritten notes relating to the functional redundancy problem – photocopy.
• Handwritten notes relating to redundancy and gene conversion.
• Handwritten notes on models of functional redundancy – photocopy.
• Handwritten notes entitled 'J H Thomas'.

Folder marked 'Redundancy draft, correspondence, Martin Novak inc. Fisher Brookfield'. Contents include:

• Letter from Maynard Smith to Martin Novak, 18 Jul 1996?
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Martin Novak, 30 Aug 1996. Partial. Enclosed are notes by Novak.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Martin A. Novak, 6 Sep 1996.
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Martin Novak, 28 Nov 1996.
• Manuscript ‘Genetic Redundancy’.
• Handwritten notes on Novak ‘Genetic Redundancy’
• R.A. Fisher, ‘The sheltering of lethals’, The American Naturalist, 69 (1935), 446-455. Attached to it are notes by Maynard Smith.
• John F. Y. Brookfield, ‘Genetic Redundancy’. Attached it are notes by Maynard Smith.
• Handwritten notes relating to Brookfield p. 18 – photocopy.
• Handwritten notes on Kimura and King.

Folder marked 'Redundancy Cooke et al':

• Letter from Maynard Smith to Cooke; 27 Jan 1996? (Partial­) including: Cooke, J., Novak, M and Maynard Smith, J. 'The Origin and maintenance of redundant gene expression' – typewritten.
• Letter from Maynard Smith to Cooke; 18 Mar 1996?
• Letter to Maynard Smith from Jonathon Cooke; 1996? Attached are notes relating to 'The Origin and maintenance of redundant gene expression'.
• Fax to Jonathon Cooke including a copy of 'The Origin and maintenance of redundant gene expression'; 11 Dec 1996.
• J.Cooke, M. Novak, and J. Maynard Smith, 'The Origin and maintenance of redundant gene expression' – typewritten and annotated.
• Handwritten notes and figures.