J F Crow

Summary

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Wright and Fisher on inbreeding and random drift
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 184:609-11. 2010
  2. ncbi Edward B. Lewis, 1918-2004
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 168:1773-83. 2004
  3. ncbi Research on environmental effects in genetic studies of aging: comments
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:7-11. 2005
  4. ncbi Essay: early American genetics journals
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, 42 G Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:715-20. 2005
  5. ncbi Timeline: Hermann Joseph Muller, evolutionist
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, 425G Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:941-5. 2005
  6. ncbi H. J. Muller and the "competition hoax"
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 173:511-4. 2006
  7. ncbi Age and sex effects on human mutation rates: an old problem with new complexities
    James F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    J Radiat Res 47:B75-82. 2006
  8. ncbi Edward Novitski: Drosophila virtuoso
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 174:549-53. 2006
  9. ncbi Haldane, Bailey, Taylor and recombinant-inbred lines
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 176:729-32. 2007
  10. ncbi Commentary: Haldane and beanbag genetics
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 37:442-5. 2008

Detail Information

Publications34

  1. ncbi Wright and Fisher on inbreeding and random drift
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 184:609-11. 2010
    ..Since the effective population numbers for inbreeding and random drift are different, this would argue for the Fisher view...
  2. ncbi Edward B. Lewis, 1918-2004
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 168:1773-83. 2004
  3. ncbi Research on environmental effects in genetic studies of aging: comments
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:7-11. 2005
  4. ncbi Essay: early American genetics journals
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, 42 G Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:715-20. 2005
    ..It emphasizes the contrast between those years, when a reader had a realistic chance of keeping up with the whole field, and the current plethora of journals that makes it impossible to keep up with even the tables of contents...
  5. ncbi Timeline: Hermann Joseph Muller, evolutionist
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, 425G Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 6:941-5. 2005
    ..Here I emphasize his less well-known contribution to the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution...
  6. ncbi H. J. Muller and the "competition hoax"
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 173:511-4. 2006
  7. ncbi Age and sex effects on human mutation rates: an old problem with new complexities
    James F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    J Radiat Res 47:B75-82. 2006
    ..Some traits with complex etiology show a slight paternal age effect. There is also a short discussion of the high deleterious mutation rate and the role of sexual reproduction in reducing the consequent mutation load...
  8. ncbi Edward Novitski: Drosophila virtuoso
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 174:549-53. 2006
  9. ncbi Haldane, Bailey, Taylor and recombinant-inbred lines
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 176:729-32. 2007
  10. ncbi Commentary: Haldane and beanbag genetics
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Int J Epidemiol 37:442-5. 2008
  11. ncbi Mid-century controversies in population genetics
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Annu Rev Genet 42:1-16. 2008
    ..Curiously, most of these issues were not really resolved. Rather they were abandoned in favor of more tractable studies made possible by the new molecular methods...
  12. ncbi Just and unjust: E. E. Just (1883-1941)
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 179:1735-40. 2008
  13. ncbi Maintaining evolvability
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    J Genet 87:349-53. 2008
    ..Since such difficulties do not arise in asexual populations, a comparison of epistatic patterns in closely related sexual and asexual species might provide some important insights...
  14. ncbi Mayr, mathematics and the study of evolution
    James F Crow
    University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53706 1574, USA
    J Biol 8:13. 2009
    ..Fifty years on, I conclude that the importance of mathematics has in fact increased and will continue to do so...
  15. ncbi On epistasis: why it is unimportant in polygenic directional selection
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:1241-4. 2010
    ..Thus, the breeder's custom of ignoring epistasis usually gives a more accurate prediction than if epistatic variance were included in the formulae...
  16. ncbi The Wilhemine E. Key 2003 invitational lecture. Genetics: alive and well. The first hundred years as viewed through the pages of the journal of heredity
    J F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, 445 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706 USA
    J Hered 95:365-74. 2004
  17. ncbi Was there life before 1953?
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, 445 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Genet 33:449-50. 2003
  18. ncbi Unmasking a cheating gene
    J F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Science 283:1651-2. 1999
  19. ncbi Why is Mendelian segregation so exact?
    J F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
    Bioessays 13:305-12. 1991
    ..This provides a mechanism for removing cheaters and preserving the honesty of the Mendelian gene-shuffle...
  20. ncbi Two centuries of genetics: a view from halftime
    J F Crow
    Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 1:21-40. 2000
    ..This trend will surely extend to the next century. The humanitarian possibilities of new techniques are enormous, but social judgments about their use and the problems of an increasingly crowded planet temper our optimism...
  21. ncbi A new study challenges the current belief of a high human male:female mutation ratio
    J F Crow
    Genetics Dept, 445 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Trends Genet 16:525-6. 2000
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  22. ncbi Inferring purging from pedigree data
    Davorka Gulisija
    Department of Dairy Science and Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Evolution 61:1043-51. 2007
    ..The methods used here should be applicable to other populations for which there is pedigree information...
  23. ncbi Jim Neel--some memories
    James F Crow
    Genetics Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, 445 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706-1599, USA
    Mutat Res 543:93-6. 2003
  24. ncbi Development. There's something curious about paternal-age effects
    James F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
    Science 301:606-7. 2003
  25. ncbi C. C. Little, cancer and inbred mice
    James F Crow
    Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 161:1357-61. 2002
  26. ncbi Perspective: Here's to Fisher, additive genetic variance, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection
    James F Crow
    Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 56:1313-6. 2002
    ..I also discuss the effectiveness of reproductive-value weighting and the theorem in integrated form. Finally, an optimum principle, analogous to least action and Hamilton's principle in physics, is discussed...
  27. ncbi C. C. Tan: a life of peaks and valleys
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 164:1-4. 2003
  28. ncbi James V. Neel: 22 March 1915 - 1 February 2000
    James F Crow
    Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin
    Proc Am Philos Soc 146:123-7. 2002
  29. ncbi The origins, patterns and implications of human spontaneous mutation
    J F Crow
    Genetics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Nat Rev Genet 1:40-7. 2000
    ..But there are ways in which the impact of deleterious mutations can be mitigated...
  30. ncbi Oliver Nelson and quality protein maize
    James F Crow
    Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
    Genetics 160:819-21. 2002
  31. ncbi A centennial: George W. Beadle, 1903-1989
    Norman H Horowitz
    Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
    Genetics 166:1-10. 2004
  32. ncbi 100 years ago: Walter Sutton and the chromosome theory of heredity
    Ernest W Crow
    Department of Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas 67214, USA
    Genetics 160:1-4. 2002
  33. ncbi On the persistence and pervasiveness of a new mutation
    Aurora García-Dorado
    Departamento de Genetica, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
    Evolution 57:2644-6. 2003
    ..In contrast, the number of generations until fixation or loss, 2(N(e)/N)(1 + log(e)2N), is much smaller than the total number of heterozygotes. In general the number of generations is less than the number of individuals...
  34. ncbi Leo Szilard: a personal remembrance
    Werner Maas
    Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016-6402, USA
    Genetics 167:555-8. 2004