List of publications in biology

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This is a list of important publications in biology, organized by field.

Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:

Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic

Contents

18 Developmental biology

24 Evolutionary biology

24.1 The Origin of Species
24.2 The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

25 Evolutionary developmental biology

25.1 The Evolution of Individuality

26 Freshwater biology

27 Genetics

27.1 Experiments on Plant Hybridization
27.2 Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids

34 Infectious diseases

48 Biological psychology

49 Psychiatry

50 Psychopharmacology

51 Behavioral science

52 Neuroethology

53 Psychophysics

54 Computational neuroscience

55 Cognitive neuroscience

67 Structural biology

72.1 Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

73 Zoology

74 See also

Bioinformatics

John Besemer, Mark Borodovsky
"Heuristic approach to deriving models for gene finding", Nucleic Acids Research, 27:3911-3920, (1999).
Online version(PDF)

Description: Importance:

Evolutionary biology

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859.
Full text in pdf format
Origin of Species, 6th Edition (text)

Description: The Origin of Species is one of the hallmark works of biology. In it, Darwin details his theory that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection. It was first published on November 24, 1859 and immediately sold out its initial print run. Darwin presents a theory of evolution that is in most aspects identical to the theories now accepted by scientists. He carefully argues out this theory of evolution of species by natural selection by presenting all the accumulated scientific evidence from his voyage on the HMS Beagle in the 1830s.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Ronald Fisher
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Oxford University Press; 1930, New Ed edition (May 1, 2000) ISBN: 0198504403.

Description: This book discusses Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection

Importance: Impact

Evolutionary developmental biology

The Evolution of Individuality

Leo W. Buss
1987, The Evolution of Individuality, Princeton University Press.

Description: In his important book that examines the cell lineage as a unit of selection, Leo Buss addresses the evolutionary conflict between the cells that make up a metazoan and the metazoan individual itself. In elaborating this idea he presents numerous hypotheses regarding the evolution of animal development and life cycles, and then wraps it up by addressing hierarchical organization in biology. Though heavy on the theory and rather light on the evidence, for anyone interested in evo-devo or macroevolution this should be an essential read.

Importance:

Freshwater biology

Genetics

Experiments on Plant Hybridization

Gregor Mendel
Proceedings of the Natural History Society, 1866.
Online version

Description: Experiments on Plant Hybridization was the result after years spent studying genetic traits in pea plants. In his paper, Mendel compared seven discrete traits. Through experimentation, Mendel discovered that one inheritable trait would invariably be dominant to its recessive alternative. This model, later known as Mendelian inheritance or Mendelian genetics, provided an alternative to blending inheritance, which was the prevailing theory at the time.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact

Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids

Description: The structure of the DNA molecule discovery.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact

Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

Description: Importance: