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Aerobiology
Anatomy
Arachnology
Astrobiology
Biochemistry
Bionics
Biogeography
Bioinformatics
Biomechanics
Biophysics
Botany
Cell biology
Chorology
Crustaceology
Cryptozoology
Cycles
Cytology
Developmental biology
E. H. Davidson, Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001).
Description An important work based on a lifetime of solid research in developmental biology. The book is unique because it attempts to give a semi formal theory of regulatory networks as the basis of developmental biology.
Importance: Impact
E. Werner, In silico multicellular systems biology and minimal genomes (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14678738&query_hl=3), Drug Discovery Today, Volume 8, Issue 24, 15 December 2003, Pages 1121-1127
Description This article presents a new paradigm for understanding multicellular development of organisms. It combines in vivo methods with in silico methods using minimal genomes for multicellular systems. While the article is futuristic, its vision may well dominate future research. It is the next step based on research on minimal genomes for single cell organisms.
Importance: Impact
Disease
Ecology
Walden
- Henry David Thoreau
- 1854
- Walden (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/205)
Description: This book is based on the author two years of living near lake Walden. Thoreau summaries in the book his observations and offers information about the history of nature investigation. Thoreau offers a unique attitude to nature preservation.
Importance: Impact
Ethology
Entomology
Evolutionary biology
Histoire Naturelle
Description: Until the publication of this encyclopedia the scientific community thought that all animals were created together by God before about 6,000 years. Not only that this 44 volume encyclopedia contained all biological knowledge of its time, it offered different theory. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon claimed that man and ape might have a common ancestor. His work also had significant impact on ecology.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- 1858
- On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (http://www.zoo.uib.no/classics/varieties.html)
Description: This publication suggested natural selection as the cause of evolution. Wallace was afraid to publish his work due to the church but he sent it to Charles Darwin and help him develop what is somewhat mistakenly called today Darwinism.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
The Origin of Species
- Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species, John Murray, London, 1859.
- Full text in pdf format (http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/pdf/Origin_of_Species.pdf)
- Origin of Species, 6th Edition (text) (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2009)
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 book that examines the cell lineage as a unit of selection, Leo Buss addresses the evolutionary conflict between the individuality of 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. He wraps it up by addressing hierarchical organization in biology. It is one of the first texts addressing the idea of the individual in biology, integrating multilevel selection theory (from the macroevolutionists and gene selectionists) with developmental and cell 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: Topic creator.
Freshwater biology
Genetics
Experiments on Plant Hybridization
- Gregor Mendel
- Proceedings of the Natural History Society, 1866.
- Online version (http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html)
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
- Francis Crick, James D. Watson
- Nature (journal)171, 737-738 (1953):
- Online version (Original text) (http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/watson-crick/)
Description: The structure of the DNA molecule discovery.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
Herpetology
Histology
Human biology
Anthropology
Ichthyology
Immunology
Infectious diseases
Pathology
Epidemiology
Limnology
Forel, F.-A. 1892-1902. Le L้man, monegraphie limnologique. Editions Rouges & Cie, Lausanne, Translation D. A.
Malacology
Mammalogy
Marine biology
Microbiology
Molecular biology
Mycology
Myrmecology
Neuroscience
Palynology
Phylogenetics
Inferring Phylogenies by Joseph Felsenstein. Sinauer Associates, 2003.
An excellent technical manual to guide any biologist wishing to construct a phylogenetic hypothesis.
Biological psychology
Wilson, E. O. 1975. Sociobiology: The new synthesis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
Population biology
Psychiatry
Psychopharmacology
Behavioral science
Neuroethology
Psychophysics
Blaser E, Pylyshyn ZW, Holcombe AO. Tracking an object through feature space. Nature. 2000 Nov 9;408(6809):196-9.
Computational neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience
Phantoms in the Brain - V.S.Ramachandra
Cognitive science
Oncology
Ontogeny
Origin of life
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
- Andrew H. Knoll
- 2003, Princeton University Press.
Description: A very readable yet complete introduction to the early evolution of life.
Importance: Introduction.
Ornithology
Paleontology
Parasitology
Phycology
Physiology
Phytopathology
Structural biology
Systems biology
Werner, E., "The Future and Limits of Systems Biology", Science STKE (http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/vol2005/issue278/) 2005, pe16 (2005).
Description: A short critical review of key issues in systems biology.
Importance: Impact
Taxonomy
Systema Naturae
Description: In this book Linnaeus partitioned animals into groups - the beginning of Taxonomy.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
The Natural History of Selborne
- Gilbert White
- 1813
- The letters (http://www.wildlifewebsite.com/selbourne/selborne0.shtml)
Description: In these letters, White published his observations on birds near his house.
Importance: Impact
Souvenirs entomologiques
- Jean-Henri Fabre
- His works (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/author?name=Fabre%2c%20Jean%2dHenri%2c%201823%2d1915)
Description: Fabre investigated insects, both in the anatomy level and the behavior level.
Importance: Impact
Toxicology
Virology
Xenobiology
Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life
Description: Importance:
Zoology
The History of Animals
- Aristotle
- 350 BC
- The history of animals (http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.html)
Description: In this book, Aristotle investigated animals. Unfortunately, his investigation was careless in today's standards. For example, he claimed that males have more teeth than female. Only years after, science realized the importance of experiments in the scientific method.
Importance: Topic creator, Impact
Naturalis Historia
- Gaius Plinius Secundus
- 70
- Naturalis Historia (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/index.html)
Description: Encyclopedia of nature. It included many areas that are not considered to be part of nature sciences today - from geography, botany, zoology to painting. The encyclopedia was also novel with respect to its structure. It was to first book to use references, table of contents and tables of animals characteristics.
Importance: Impact