1953: Hayes discovers polarized behavior in bacterial recombinations,
isolating Hfr H strain of E. coli and showing that
certain genes are readily transferred from Hfr to F-
bacteria while other genes are not transferred.
1960: "MICROBIAL GENETICS: Tenth Symposium of the Society for General
Microbiology held at the Royal Institution, London", Society
for General Microbiology, Cambridge.
1964: "The Genetics of Bacteria and Their Viruses", W. Hayes,
R. C. Clowes, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York
1968: "Experiments in microbial genetics". R. C. Clowes,
W. Hayes, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York