本书是《生命科学的进程》中的一册,精选了《自然》杂志1977年至1997年期间发表的重要生命科学论文近百余篇。在这期间,埃文斯与考夫曼从小鼠体内获得胚胎干细胞并在体外成功培养,加洛及其同事解析了艾滋病病毒HTLV-Ⅲ的完整核苷酸序列,威尔逊等人提出了“夏娃假说”——人类的共同祖先是一位非洲女性,罗思曼等提出了一种囊泡运输和靶膜融合的机制,在中国江苏省上黄村的始新世堆积物中发现了中华曙猿和丰富的灵长类动物,威尔穆特等报道了世界上只由成年体细胞克隆得到的多莉羊的诞生等。
1977
New Hominoid Primates from the Siwaliks of Pakistan and Their Bearing on Hominoid Evolution
巴基斯坦西瓦利克新发现的人猿超科灵长类动物及其在人猿超科进化上的意义
1979
Pliocene Footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, Northern Tanzania
坦桑尼亚北部莱托利尔层中的上新世足迹.
Single Strands Induce recA Protein to Unwind Duplex DNA for Homologous Pairing
单链dna诱导recA蛋白解旋dna以利于同源配对
1980
Selfish Genes, the Phenotype Paradigm and Genome Evolution
自私的基因,表型模式和基因组进化
Selfish DNA: the Ultimate Parasite
自私的DNA:最终的寄生物
Selfish DNA
自私的DNA
Modes of Genome Evolution
基因组的进化模式
Mutations Affecting Segment Number and Polarity in Drosophila
影响果蝇体节数量和极性的突变
1981
Establishment in Culture of Pluripotential Cells from Mouse Embryos
小鼠胚胎多能细胞培养体系的建立
Test-tube Babies, 1981
试管婴儿,1981
1982
Enzymatic Replication of E.coli Chromosomal Origin is Bidirectional
大肠杆菌染色体起始位点的酶促复制是双向进行的
Human EJ Bladder Carcinoma Oncogene is Homologue of HarveySarcoma Virus ras Gene
人类EJ膀胱癌癌基因是哈维肉瘤病毒ras基因的同源基因
Neurone Differentiation in Cell Lineage Mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans
秀丽隐杆线虫细胞谱系突变体的神经元分化
1983
Evidence on Human Origins from Haemoglobins of African Apes
来自非洲猿血红蛋白的人类起源证据
1984
A Conserved DNA Sequence in Homoeotic Genes of the Drosophila Antennapedia and Bithorax Complexes
果蝇触角足和双胸基因复合体同源异型基因中的保守DNA序列
1985
Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the AIDS Virus, HTLV-Ⅲ
艾滋病病毒HTLV-Ⅲ的完整核苷酸序列
1986
2.5-Myr Australopithecus boisei from West of Lake Turkana, Kenya
肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖以西250万年前的南方古猿鲍氏种
Forty Years of Genetic Recombination in Bacteria: A Fortieth Anniversary Reminiscence
细菌遗传重组四十年——四十周年纪念
1987
Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution
线粒体DNA与人类进化
Transmission Dynamics of HIV Infection
HIV的传播动力学
Structure of the Repressor-operator Complex of Bacteriophage 434
噬菌体434阻遏蛋白-操纵基因复合物的结构
1988
GAL4 Activates Transcription in Drosophila
在果蝇中GAL4激活转录
Mysteries of HIV: Challenges for Therapy and Prevention
神秘的HIV:它的治疗和预防面临的挑战
Human Basophil Degranulation Triggered by Very Dilute Antiserum against lgE
高度稀释的抗IgE抗血清引发人嗜碱性粒细胞脱颗粒
"High-dilution" Experiments a Delusion
高倍稀释实验的错觉
Resolution of Quantitative Traits into Mendelian Factors by Using a Complete Linkage Map of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms
通过限制性酶切片段长度多态性的完整连锁图对孟德尔因子数量性状的解析
1989
DNA Fingerprinting on Trial
DNA指纹图谱技术在庭审中的应用。
A Membrane-targeting Signal in the Amino Terminus of the Neuronal Protein GAP-43
神经元蛋白GAP-43氨基末端中的膜导向信号
Rescue of bicoid Mutant Drosophila Embryos by Bicoid Fusion Proteins Containing Heterologous Activating Sequences
通过含异源激活序列的Bicoid融合蛋白拯救bicoid突变果蝇胚胎
1992
The C. elegans Genome Sequencing Project:a Beginning
秀丽隐杆线虫基因组测序计划:一个开端
1993
SNAP Receptors Implicated in Vesicle Targeting and Fusion
囊泡靶向及融合过程中SNAP受体的功能
B-cell Apoptosis Induced by Antigen Receptor Crosslinking is Blocked by a T-cell Signal Through CD40
T细胞通过CD40抑制抗原受体交联引起的B细胞凋亡
Music and Spatial Task Performance
音乐和空间任务表现
1994
A Cell Initiating Human Acute Myeloid Leukaemia after Transplantation into SCID Mice
一种植入SCID小鼠中引发人急性髓性白血病的细胞
2.2 Mb of Contiquous Nucleotide Sequence from Chromosome Ill of C. elegans
秀丽隐杆线虫3号染色体上的2.2Mb连续核苷酸序列
The First Skull and Other New Discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis at Hadar, Ethiopia
在埃塞俄比亚的哈达尔发现的例南方古猿阿法种的头骨和其他新发现
A Diverse New Primate Fauna from Middle