1961/09/01 by Barbara McClintock · 2 citations
Engineering · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biofuel production and bioconversion #CRISPR and Genetic Engineering #Genetically Modified Organisms Research #Biology #Parallels #Gene #Bacteria #Genetics #Evolutionary biology #Economics
paper · doi:10.1086/282188
openalex publication_date 1961/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
In this article, McClintock attempted to link the regulation of controlling elements to observations made by Francois Jacob, Jacques Monod, and Andre Lwoff on bacterial operons in 1960. In part, McClintock was trying to establish her preeminence in the study of gene regulation, but she also wanted to demonstrate that regulation was widespread among organisms. Many of the parallels she observed were not universally accepted and McClintock backed off most of her claims by 1968.