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Protozoa

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Protozoans ; Protozoons

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence with Trends in Genetics journal concerning Beale's article 'Self- and non-self recognition in the ciliate protozoan Euplotes', including draft typescripts, 1989-1990

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Identifier: Coll-1255/3/5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains chiefly correspondence with publishers and publications including Edward Arnold, Taylor and Francis, Encylopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia of Genetics and the Trends in Genetics journal. Also contains press cuttings reviewing Beale's publications from Cambridge University Press and correspondence with individuals such as John Preer, Sidney Pollack and Keith Vickermann. Except where noted,...
Dates: 1989-1990

Draft chapters 1 and 2 of 'Genetics and Development of Ciliate Protozoa' and other papers, 1950-2001

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Identifier: Coll-1255/11/2
Scope and Contents

Also includes various reprints from C.D. Darlington and others, a photocopy of 'The Cult of Lysenko: 30 appalling years' (Beale's review of Z.A. Medvedev's book The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko) (1969) and email printouts to Beale from John Preer Jr. and Lisa Ranford Cartwright.

Dates: 1950-2001

Lecture notes on protozoan genetics, 1965-1969

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Identifier: Coll-1255/6/15
Scope and Contents

Contains notes for four lectures on protozoan genetics (December 1965) and a lecture to the 'Protozoological Society, Chelsea' titled 'Genetics of Protozoa: past achievements and future possibilities' (11 April 1969).

Dates: 1965-1969

Notes relating to various seminars and lectures, 1949-1956

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Identifier: Coll-1255/6/4
Scope and Contents

Notes include: 'Seminar on Paramecium - Glasgow University, Jan 25th 1949', 'Paramecium genetics, with special reference to theories of cellular differentiation (Lecture at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, March 6th 1952)', 'Genetics of the Protozoa - lecture to St Andrew's University Biological Society, Tuesday Feb 3rd 1953' and 'Antigen system of Paramecium - seminar at Oak Ridge, June 18th 1956' among others.

Dates: 1949-1956

Offprints by Helmut Plattner et al., chiefly concerning calcium in ciliated protozoa and experiments with Paramecium cells, 1998-2001

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Identifier: Coll-1255/12/1/44
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Some articles are by Beale himself and collaborators; most of them are by people other than Beale and have presumably been collated as part of Beale's reading and research.

Many of the offprints are marked with Beale's signature; others are inscribed to Beale by the offprint's author.

Dates: 1998-2001

Offprints chiefly by Elizabeth H. Blackburn and collaborators relating to telomeric DNA and repeated sequence in Tetrahymena rDNA, 1978-2001

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Identifier: Coll-1255/12/1/36
Scope and Contents

Also contains a programme for a discussion meeting on 'utilising the genome sequence of parasitic protozoa' hosted by the Royal Society, 21-22 March 2001, and an email printout from Eric Meyer to John Preer Jr. (January 2000).

Dates: 1978-2001

Offprints chiefly concerning ciliates and chromosomal breakage in protozoa, 1986-1998

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Identifier: Coll-1255/12/1/40
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Some articles are by Beale himself and collaborators; most of them are by people other than Beale and have presumably been collated as part of Beale's reading and research.

Many of the offprints are marked with Beale's signature; others are inscribed to Beale by the offprint's author.

Dates: 1986-1998

Two photocopied articles and a book by I.B. Raikov, 1978-1989

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Identifier: Coll-1255/12/1/34
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopied articles by Raikov: 'Nuclear Genome of the Protozoa' (1989) and 'The nuclear apparatus of some primitive ciliates, the karyorelictids: structure and divisional reorganisation' (1994). Also contains a Russian-language copy of Raikov's book The Protozoan Nucleus – Morphology and Evolution (1978) inscribed to Beale by the author.

Dates: 1978-1989