In Pursuit of the Gene

364 ¨ INDEX
Morgan, Thomas Hunt (continued)
175; association of genetic factors
and, 183, 191–192; Bateson and,
174, 322n36; Brooks and, 322–
323n45; chromosomal crossing
over and, 182–183; chromosomes’
role in heredity and, 165–168, 171–
176, 275–276; De Vries’s mutation
theory and, 176–179, 180, 217; discovery
of white by, 179; Drosophila
study and, 178–183; linkage and,
181–183, 276; Mendelism and, 173,
183, 187, 190–191, 200, 275, 276;
Muller’s eulogy for, 275–276; natural
selection and, 173, 176, 276;
Nettie Stevens’s work and, 320–
321n20; Phylloxera study and, 171–
172, 174, 175–176; radium-caused
mutations and, 180; sea-urchin
eggs and, 155; student research
team and, 185–188, 190–201, 204–
205, 209, 210, 226, 237, 240, 244–245,
272, 273, 275–276
Muller, Ada, 254, 271
Muller, David Eugene, 236, 237, 257,
263, 268, 270, 273
Muller, Helen Juliet, 273–274
Muller, Hermann, Sr., 188–189
Muller, Hermann Joseph: as Altenberg’s
close friend, 189, 190, 209,
248–249, 250, 254, 259, 261, 269,
270; bacteriophage model and,
277–278; balanced lethal factors
and, 210–213, 215–217, 218, 333n24;
in Berlin, 254, 256; chromosome
duplication and, 252–254, 259–262;
at Cornell, 193; as critic of Morgan,
186, 195–197, 275–276;
cytological analysis of chromosomal
translocation and, 243–246;
as Drosophila stock caretaker, 232,
235, 268, 271–272; at Edinburgh,
269–271; eugenics and, 234, 236,
249, 250–251, 257, 267, 289; and
evolution through mutation, 231,
261; first ocean voyage, 232–233;
gene mapping and, 193–195, 202–
203, 230, 273; gene nomenclature
and, 197–198; genic balance theory
and, 273, 345n112; at Indiana University,
273, 278–280, 337n35; and
Lock, 190, 325–326n15; vs. Lysenko,
259, 263–266, 267; in Madrid, 267–
268; Mendelism and, 189–190, 200,
265, 273; method of linked factors
and, 202–204, 205–206, 210, 273,
286–287; Morgan’s lab and, 185–
186, 187–188, 191, 195, 202, 204–205,
209; mutation theory and, 221–228,
273, 279; mutation work with radiation
and, 236–241, 243–246, 273;
mutation work with temperature
and, 238, 273; natural selection
and, 188–189, 206; Offermann and,
247–248, 249, 256–257, 259; as preeminent
modern geneticist, 185,
187–188, 206, 230–232, 238, 241,
251–252, 273, 276, 280; radical political
sympathies of, 248, 249–250,
254, 262, 267–268, 272; relation of
traits to genes and, 196–197, 273,
286–287; at Rice Institute, 185, 209,