Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg: Published Works

Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg

  1. Hollaender, A. and Zimmer, E. M., January 1945 (September, 1944), "The effect of ultraviolet radiation and X-rays on mutation production in Penicilllium notatum", Genetics Society of America 30(1):8
    Also: Genetics, 30:19-20 Abstract submitted to the September 12-14, 1944 Meeting of the Genetics Society of America
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  2. Hollaender, A., Sansome E. R., Zimmer, E., Demerec, M., April 1945, "Quantitative Irradiation Experiments with Neurospora crassa. II. Ultraviolet Irradiation", American Journal of Botany 32(4):226-235
    Also: "Quantitative effects of radiation on mutation production in Neurospora crassa", Records of the Genetics Society of America, Number Thirteen, 1944
    See an incomplete relevant historical account in:
    Perspectives: Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics, Edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove, "50 Years Ago: The Neurospora Revolution", by Norman H. Horowitz, Genetics 127, April 1991, 631-635. It is pointed out that papers in the early 1940s about Neurospora crassa were of immediate importance in leading to modern bacterial genetics.
    Click to see relevant reference

  3. Zimmer, E. M., Aug. 1946, "MUTANT STRAINS OF NEUROSPORA DEFICIENT IN PARA-AMINOBENZOIC ACID", MA Thesis, Stanford University

  4. Giles, N. H. Jr., Lederberg, E. Z., 1948, "Induced reversions of biochemical mutants in Neurospora crassa", American Journal of Botany 34(3):150-157

  5. Lederberg, E. M., 1948, "The mutability of several lac– mutants of Escherichia coli", Genetics 33:617

  6. Lederberg, E. Z., 1950, "GENETIC CONTROL OF MUTABILITY IN THE BACTERIUM Escherichia COLI", Doctoral Thesis, University of Wisconsin

  7. Lederberg, E. M., 1951, "Lysogenicity in E. coli K-12", Genetics 36:560 (abstract)
            and
    Lederberg, E. M., 1950, "Lysogenicity in Escherichia coli strain K-12", Microbial Genetics Bulletin, 1, pp. 5-9, Jan. 1950, Univ. of Wisconsin [Evelyn Maisel Witkin, Editor], Ohio State University,
    ISSN: 0026-2579, call No. 33-M-4, OCLC: 04079516, Accession Number: AEH8282UW
         Note: The abstract in 'Genetics' is totally different from the 'Microbial Genetics Bulletin' publication. The 'Microbial Genetics Bulletin' publication has a far more detailed discussion of λ lysogenicity.
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  8. Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., Zinder, N. D., Lively, E. R., 1951, "Recombination analysis of bacterial heredity", Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 16:413-443

  9. Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., March 1952, "Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants", Journal of Bacteriology 63(3):399-406         Click to see prepublication Abstract and relevant information

  10. Lederberg, E. M., Sept. 1952, "Allelic relationships and reverse mutation in Escherichia coli", Genetics 37(5):469-483

  11. Lederberg, J., Cavalli, L. L., and Lederberg, E. M., Nov. 1952, "Sex compatibility in Escherichia coli", Genetics 37(6):720-730

  12. Lederberg, E. M., Lederberg, J., Jan. 1953, "Genetic studies of lysogenicity in Escherichia coli", Genetics 38(1):51-64

  13. Cavalli, L. L., Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., Feb. 1953, "An infective factor controlling sex compatibility in Bacterium coli", Journal of General Microbiology 8(1):89-103

  14. Lederberg, E., 1954, "The inheritance of lysogenicity in interstrain crosses of Escherichia coli", Genetics, 39:282-302, 39:978 (abstract)

  15. Lederberg, E. M., 1955, "Pleiotropy for maltose fermentation and phage resistance in Escherichia coli K-12", Genetics 37:469-483, 40:581-582 (abstract)

  16. Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., 1956, "Infection and Heredity", in Cellular Mechanisms in Differentiation and Growth (Dorthy Rudnick, ed.), 14th Symposium of Soc. Growth and Development (Princeton University Press), pp. 101-124

  17. Morse, M. L., Lederberg, E. M., Lederberg, J., 1956, "Transduction in Escherichia coli K-12", Genetics 41:142-156

  18. Morse, M. L., Lederberg, E. M., Lederberg, J., Sept. 1956, "Transductional heterogenotes in Escherichia coli", Genetics 41(5):758-779

  19. Lederberg, J., Holloway, B. W., Lederberg, E. M., Burnet, F. M., Fenner, F., Best, R. J., 1957, "Symposium on Bacterial and Viral Genetics (Canberra, August 1957)", Australian Journal of Science 20:71-76

  20. Lederberg, E., 1958, "Fine structure of Gal loci in Escherichia coli K-12", Tenth International Congress of Genetics, Montreal

  21. Lederberg, E. M., 1960, "Genetic and functional aspects of galactose metabolism in Escherichia coli K-12", Symposia of the Society for General Microbiology, Number X, Microbial Genetics, Great Britain, pp. 115-131

  22. Mäkelä, P. H., Lederberg, J., Lederberg, E. M., Oct. 1962, "Patterns of sexual recombination in enteric bacteria", Genetics 47:1427-1439

  23. Lederberg, E. M., Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., Lederberg, J., April 1964, "Interaction of streptomycin and a suppressor for galactose fermentation in E. coli K-12", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U. S., 51:678-682

  24. Westley, J. W., Anderson, P. J., Close, V. A., Halpern, B., Lederberg, E. M., July 1967, "Aminopeptidase profiles of various bacteria", Applied Microbiology 15(4):822-825

  25. Lederberg, E. M., Stocker, B. A. D., 1970, "Phase variation in rec– mutants of Salmonella typhimurium", Bacteriological Proceedings p. 35 (abstract)

  26. Lederberg, E. M., Aug. 1970, "Transfer of F' lac to rec– mutants of Salmonella typhimurium", International Congress for Microbiology X, p. 60

  27. Lederberg, E. M., Brothers, L. L., Cohen, S. M., 1973, "Molecular properties of an F – lac+-tetracycline-resistance plasmid, in E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, XIII International Congress of Genetics", Genetics 74:s152
    This paper may also be listed under "Molecular properties of an F' lac-tetracycline-resistance plasmid in E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium".

  28. Lederberg, E. M., Cohen, S. N., Sept. 1974, "Transformation of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 by plasmid deoxyribose nucleic acid", Journal of Bacteriology 119(3):1072-1074

  29. Garfield, E., Lederberg, E. M., 1976, "Plasmids: Medical and Theoretical Aspects",
    and "Is the Current System of Scientific Communication Adequate to the Age of Plasmid Engineering?"
    Third International Symposium on ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE, Castle of Smolenice, Czechoslovakia;
    Editors S. MITSUHASHI, L. ROSIVAL, V. KRČNÉRY, pp 389-393

  30. Lederberg, E., 1976, "The Plasmid Reference Center", ASM News, 42, 705.
    Click to see relevant reference

  31. Lederberg, E., 1976, "The Plasmid Reference Center", Proc. Soc. General Microbiology, 4 (Part I), iv.

  32. Campbell, A., Berg, D. E., Botstein, D., Lederberg, E. M., Novick, R. P., Starlinger, P., Szybalski, W.,
    "Nomenclature of transposable elements in prokaryotes", "DNA Insertion Elements, Plasmids, and Episomes"
    1977, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York, 15 - 22
    1979, Gene, 5, 197 - 206 1

    1 Initially there was no accepted nomenclature for plasmids, thus various names were used, such as the following [plasmid, strain]:

    As an increasing number of plasmids were discovered and used in research, the need for a systematic nomenclature was recognized and a committee designated to deal with this problem. The Plasmid Reference center (PRC) with Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg as director took on this responsibility at Stanford University. The nomenclature expanded to include not only plasmids, but insertion sequences and transposon numbers. Directors at other centers also were doing the same thing as the PRC or had collections requiring similar attention, including:
    • Barbara J. Bachmann
    • Naomi Datta
    • Pierre Frédérique
    • Ken Sanderson

  33. Lederberg, E., 1977, "The Plasmid Reference Center", Plasmid, 1, 123.

  34. Lederberg, E., 1978, "Preliminary and partial list of plasmid prefixes", Plasmid, 1, 2, 270-271.

  35. Lederberg, E., 1978, "The Plasmid Reference Center", Microbial Genetics Bulletin, 44, 31-37

  36. Campbell, A., Berg, D. E., Botstein, D., Lederberg, E. M., Novick, R. P., Starlinger, P., Szybalski, W., March 1979, "Nomenclature of transposable elements in prokaryotes", Gene 5(3): 197-206

  37. Campbell, A., Starlinger, P., Berg, D. E., Botstein, D., Lederberg, E. M., Novick, R. P., Szybalski, W., July 1979, "Nomenclature of transposable elements in prokaryotes", Plasmid 2(3):466-473

  38. Lederberg, E. M., 1979, "Strategies of the Plasmid Reference Center", (Abstract) in the book Progress in Medicine: Plasmids, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

  39. Lederberg, E., 1980, "Genetic culture collections. The Plasmid Reference Center (PRC)", Microbial Genetics Bulletin, 48, 104-105.

  40. Lederberg, E. M., 1981, "The Plasmid Reference Center (PRC)", THE INTERNATIONAL PLASMID CONFERENCE on MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, PATHOGENICITY, and ECOLOGY OF BACTERIAL PLASMIDS, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, January 5-9, 1981, p-45
    also "Molecular Biology, Pathogenicity, and Ecology of Bacterial Plasmids", Levy, S. B.; Clowes, R. C.; Koenig, E. L. (Eds), Plenum Press, New York, 1981, p. 625     Click to see relevant reference

  41. Lederberg, E. M., 1981, "Plasmid Reference Center Registry of Transposon (Tn) Allocations Through July 1981", Gene 16(1-3):59-61

  42. Lederberg, E., 1982, "Errata", Gene, 18, 366

  43. Lederberg, Esther M., June 1983, "Research Service: Plasmid Reference Center", Research Resources Reporter, VII, 6, 13 - 14

  44. Lederberg, E. M., Jan. 1986, "Plasmid Prefix Designations Registered by the Plasmid Reference Center: 1977-1985", Plasmid 15(1):57-92

  45. Lederberg, E. M., 1987, "Plasmid Reference Center Registry of Transposon (Tn) and Insertion Sequence (Is) Allocations Through December 1986", Gene 51(2-3):115-118

The importance of temperate phage lambda and lysogenicity, transduction by phage lambda, and co-development of replica plating has been noted in "A Dictionary of Genetics", by Robert C. King and William D. Stansfield, Oxford University Press, 14th Edition, 1990.

Dr. Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg worked with A. Hollaender at the NIH, moving to Yale after getting an M.A. at Stanford University (acknowledging the guidance of G. W. Beadle and E. L. Tatum). During summers, she worked on radiation-induced reverse mutation in at Cold Spring Harbor with A. Hollaender and M. Demerec. At the Osborn Botanical Laboratory at Yale, she did further research on radiation-induced reverse mutation in Neurospora with N. Giles. Her thesis advisor for her Ph.D. was the chairman of the Genetics Department, R. Brink. (See "The Emergence of Bacterial Genetics", by T. Brock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1990, p. 88).

Other Papers Cited by Several Researchers

  1. Lederberg, E. M., Lederberg, J., 1953, "Genetic recombination in bacteria: Genetic evidence for sex in bacteria"
  2. Lederberg, E., 1950-1951, "Lysogenicity in E. coli", Genetics and Microbial Genetics Bulletin
  3. Lederberg, E., 1950-1951, "Lysogenicity and Transduction E. coli", referenced in 1957, "Symposium on Bacterial and Viral Genetics (Canberra, August 1957)", p. 71

Other names for Esther Lederberg that might be used on papers not yet identified 1

  1. Esther Zimmer
  2. E. Zimmer
  3. Esther Miriam Zimmer
  4. Esther M. Zimmer
  5. E. Miriam Zimmer
  6. E. M. Zimmer
  7. Esther Marilyn Zimmer
  8. E. Marilyn Zimmer
  9. Esther Lederberg
  10. E. Lederberg
  11. Esther Zimmer Lederberg
  12. E. Zimmer Lederberg
  13. Esther Miriam Lederberg
  14. Esther M. Lederberg
  15. E. Miriam Lederberg
  16. E. M. Lederberg
  17. Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg
  18. Esther Miriam Z. Lederberg
  19. Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
  20. Esther M. Z. Lederberg
  21. Esther Marilyn Lederberg
  22. E. Marilyn Lederberg
  23. Esther Marilyn Lederberg
  24. Esther Marilyn Zimmer Lederberg
  25. Esther Marilyn Z. Lederberg

1 The proper use of names is significant. For example, searching through databases with an incorrect name might result in not finding papers written under an author's name. Does it surprise the reader that searches for Esther Lederberg's name fail almost always in the Joshua Lederberg NLM web site? The names used on papers written by Esther Lederberg are very rarely correct in the well-researched Joshua Lederberg NLM web site (in addition, most of the papers listed on this page are omitted from the same NLM web site).

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