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Publication trends in model organism research by Dietrich, Michael R, Ankeny, Rachel A, Chen, Patrick M

“…In 1990, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave some organisms special status as designated model organisms. This article documents publication trends…”
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Explaining the ＂Pulse of Protoplasm＂： The search for molecular mechanisms of protoplasmic streaming by Dietrich, Michael R

“…Explanations for protoplasmic streaming began with appeals to contraction in the eighteenth century and ended with appeals to contraction in the twentieth…”
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Richard C. Lewontin (1929–2021) by Dietrich, Michael R.

“…Pioneer of molecular evolution who campaigned against biological racism. Pioneer of molecular evolution who campaigned against biological racism…”
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Integration without Unification: An Argument for Pluralism in the Biological Sciences by Mitchell, Sandra D., Dietrich, Michael R.

“…In this article, we consider the tension between unification and pluralism in biological theory. We begin with a consideration of historical efforts to…”
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MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion by Peterson, Kevin J, Dietrich, Michael R, McPeek, Mark A

“…One of the most interesting challenges facing paleobiologists is explaining the Cambrian explosion, the dramatic appearance of most metazoan animal phyla in…”
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How to choose your research organism by Dietrich, Michael R., Ankeny, Rachel A., Crowe, Nathan, Green, Sara, Leonelli, Sabina

“…Despite August Krogh's famous admonition that a ‘convenient’ organism exists for every biological problem, we argue that appeals to ‘convenience’ are not…”
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'Extreme' organisms and the problem of generalization: interpreting the Krogh principle by Green, Sara, Dietrich, Michael R., Leonelli, Sabina, Ankeny, Rachel A.

“…Many biologists appeal to the so-called Krogh principle when justifying their choice of experimental organisms. The principle states that "for a large number…”
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Richard Lewontin and the “complications of linkage” by Dietrich, Michael R., Harman, Oren, Lamm, Ehud

“…During the 1960s and 1970s population geneticists pushed beyond models of single genes to grapple with the effect on evolution of multiple genes associated by…”
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Three Perspectives on Neutrality and Drift in Molecular Evolution by Dietrich, Michael R.

“…This article offers three contrasting cases of the use of neutrality and drift in molecular evolution. In the first, neutrality is assumed as a simplest case…”
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Looking Toward the Next Fifty Years at the Journal of the History of Biology by DIETRICH, MICHAEL R.

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The Journal of the History of Biology at 50 by DIETRICH, MICHAEL R.

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Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen's Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century by DIETRICH, MICHAEL R.

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The First Everett Mendelsohn Prize by DIETRICH, MICHAEL R.

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Experimenting with sex: four approaches to the genetics of sex reversal before 1950 by Dietrich, Michael R.

“…In the early twentieth century, Tatsuo Aida in Japan, Øjvind Winge in Denmark, Richard Goldschmidt in Germany, and Calvin Bridges in the United States all…”
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The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories by Dietrich, Michael R., Millstein, Roberta L.

“…The neutral and nearly neutral theories of molecular evolution are sometimes characterized as theories about drift alone, where drift is described solely as an…”
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Inaugurating the Everett Mendelsohn Prize by DIETRICH, MICHAEL R.

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Ernest ‘Chinese’ Wilson’s Re-imagined Legacy in Sichuan by Dietrich, Scott, Dietrich, Michael R.

“…Dietrich's discuss an American figure who photographed in western China at the turn of the twentieth century. From 1899 to 1911, Ernest Henry Wilson…”
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Reinventing Richard Goldschmidt: Reputation, Memory, and Biography by Dietrich, Michael R

“…Richard Goldschmidt was one of the most controversial biologists of the mid-twentieth century. Rather than fade from view, Goldschmidt’s work and reputation…”
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The diversification of developmental biology by Crowe, Nathan, Dietrich, Michael R., Alomepe, Beverly S., Antrim, Amelia F., ByrneSim, Bay Lauris, He, Yi

“…In the 1960s, “developmental biology” became the dominant term to describe some of the research that had previously been included under the rubrics of…”
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Richard Goldschmidt: hopeful monsters and other 'heresies' by Dietrich, Michael R

“…Richard Goldschmidt is remembered today as one of the most controversial biologists of the twentieth century. Although his work on sex determination and…”
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