List of publications in biology

This is a list of important publications in biology, organized by field.

Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:

• Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
• Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
• Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
• Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
• Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic

Aerobiology

Blackley, C. H. (1873) Experimental Researches on the Causes and Nature of Catarrhus Aestivus (Hay-Fever or Hay-Asthma), (Oxford Historical Books).

Anatomy

Gray's Anatomy

• Henry Gray
• Henry Gray, Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, 1858.
• Online version

Description: Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in Great Britainin 1858, and the following year in the United States. The book's British author died after the publication of the 1860second edition, at the age of 34, but his much-praised book was continued by others and on November 24, 2004, the 39th British edition was released.

Importance: Influence

Astrobiology

Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

• Jack Cohenand Ian Stewart

Description: Importance:

Biochemistry

Biogeography

Bioinformatics

Biomechanics

Biophysics

• J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick (1953), Molecular structure of Nucleic AcidsNature, 171: 737-738.
• H. C. Berg, D. A. Brown (1972), "Chemotaxis in Escherichia coli analysed by three-dimensional tracking." Nature, 239: 500-504.
• E. M. Purcell (1977), "Life at low Reynold's number." American Journal of Physics, 45: 3-11.
• K. Svoboda, C. F. Schmidt, B. J. Schnapp, and S. M. Block (1993), "Direct observation of kinesin stepping by optical trapping interferometry." Nature 365: 721-727.
• C. Bustamante, J. F. Marko, E. D. Siggia, and Steven Smith (1994), "Entropic elasticity of lambda-phage DNA." Science, 265: 1599-1600.
• D. A. Doyle, J. M. Cabral, R. A. Pfuetzner, A. Kuo, J. M. Gulbis, S. L. Cohen, B. T. Chait, R. M. MacKinnon (1998), "The Structure of the Potassium Channel: Molecular Basis of K+ Conduction and Selectivity." Science, 280: 69-77.

Botany

Species Plantarum, 1753

• Carolus Linnaeus
• online at gallica

Description : a two-volume work, going through many editions (ever expanding), listing all plants then known, made accessible by an ordering in (artificial) classes and orders, and giving every listed species a two-part name (Binomial nomenclatureor Binary name). With this book anybody, by counting the male and female parts present in a flower, could get to a listing of the genera the plant in question belongs to. This is the prime staring point of botanical nomenclature. It was also the starting point of a great upsurge in the popularity of Science. Arguably THE most important publication in biology ever. Without Linnaeus there would have been no Darwin.

Importance : Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Variation and Evolution in Plants, 1950

• G. Ledyard Stebbins

Description: a single volume on the role of genetics in plant evolution, the first comprehensive synthesis on the topic and a part of the canon of works of the moden evolutionary synthesis.

Cell biology

Molecular Biology of the Cell

• Alberts, Bruce; Johnson, Alexander; Lewis, Julian; Raff, Martin; Roberts, Keith; Walter, Peter
• New York, Garland Publishing
• 1983-2002

Description: . This is a must-have introduction to cell biology, suitable for both undergraduates as well as for graduate students. The book covers a wide range of concepts, spanning from the internal organization of cells and molecular genetics - to cellular functions in the larger context of the organism. For beginners, it serves as an excellent introduction to the field of cell and molecular biology. Graduate students and post-graduates may furthermore use this book for refreshing their memory on basic biological principles. Online version.

Importance: Introduction.

Computational neuroscience

• Fingelkurts An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A.(2004) "Making complexity simpler: Multivariability and metastability in the brain." International Journal of Neuroscience 114(7), 843-862.

Cognitive neuroscience

• Fingelkurts An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A.(2001) "Operational architectonics of the human brain biopotential field: Towards solving the mind-brain problem." Brain and Mind 2(3), 261-296.

The organization of behavior

• Donald O. Hebb
• New York: Wiley, 1989

Description: Importance:

Perception of shape from shading

• V.S. Ramachandran
• Nature 331 163-166, 1988

Description: Importance:

Phantoms in the Brain

• V.S. Ramachandran

Description: Importance:

Neuronal Correlates of Attention and Memory

• Mikhail Lebedev

Lebedev, M.A., Messinger, A., Kralik, J.D., Wise, S.P. (2004) Representation of attended versus remembered locations in prefrontal cortex.PLoS Biology, 2: 1919-1935.

• Fingelkurts An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A., Krause, C.M., Kaplan A.Ya., Borisov S.V., Sams, M. (2003) "Structural (operational) synchrony of EEG alpha activity during an auditory memory task." NeuroImage 20(1) 529-542.

Description: Importance:

Developmental biology

Genomic Regulatory Systems: Development and Evolution

• 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

In silico multicellular systems biology and minimal genomes

• E. Werner
• Drug Discovery Today, Volume 8, Issue 24, 15 December 2003, Pages 1121-1127
• Online version

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

Oyama, S. (2000). The Ontogeny of Information ; Developmental Systems and Evolution. Durham, NC, Duke University Press.

Ecology

Competitive exclusion

• Georgii Frantsevich Gause
• G. F. Gause. The struggle for existence, 1936. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.

Description: In this book Gause establishes his Competitive exclusion principle, through experiments involving Paramecium. The principle holds that no two species can co-exist for long if they have to compete for highly similar resources. The end result is allways the extinction of the less fit species.

Importance: Topic creator, breakthrough.

• G. Evelyn Hutchinson
• Hutchinson, G. E. (1959). "Homage to Santa Rosalina or why are there so many kinds of animals?" American Naturalist, 93, 145-159.

Description: Hutchinson's 1959 paper went a long way to understanding community assembly in ecosystems, in addition to solving an apparent violation of competative exclusion. His studies of Corixidae lead to the discovery of 1:1.3 Hutchinson ratio that is ubiquitous in all community systems involving the co-existence of two niche-similar predatorial species. The size ratio difference is what permits their co-existence despite the degree of niche-overlap, and formed the basis for the limiting similaritytheory - one of the most important contributions to Community Ecology to date.

Importance: Breakthrough.

Ecological niche

• Joseph Grinnell
• Grinnell, J. (1917). "The Niche relationship of the California Thrasher", Auk, 34, 427-433.

Description: This is the paper in which the concept of the Ecological nichewas first developed. Although Joseph Grinnell viewed the species Habitatas being analagous to its niche, which is not how niches are percieved today, it still represented a significant contribution as it got his contemporary Ecologists thinking in such a way that lay the foundations for modern day Ecology.

Importance: Topic creator, Impact.

• G. Evelyn Hutchinson
• Hutchinson, G. E. (1957). "Concluding remarks, Cold Spring Harbor Symposium." Quant. Biol, 22, 415-427.

Description: In Hutchinson's 1957 address, for the first time in ecology, a strongly quantitative method for understanding the relationship between a species, its ecosystem and the environment at large is developed. Even if today Hutchinson's niche concept (or even the relevence of niches to ecology in general) is disputed, he fundamentaly changed the orientation of ecology away from a qualitative Science towards a strongly quantitative one. Hutchinson is thusly considered by many as the father of modern ecology.

Importance: Breakthrough.

Ethology & Behavior

Entomology

Epidemiology

Evolutionary biology

Histoire Naturelle

• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• 1749-1788

Description: Until the publication of this encyclopedia the scientific community thought that all animals were created together by Godbefore 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

Description: This publication suggested natural selectionas the cause of evolution. Wallace was afraid to publish his work due to the church but he sent it to Charles Darwinand 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
• Origin of Species, 6th Edition (text)

Description: The Origin of Species is one of the hallmark works of biology. In it, Darwin details his theorythat organismsgradually evolvethrough natural selection. It was first published on November 24, 1859and immediately sold out its initial print run. Darwin presents a theory of evolutionthat is in most aspects identical to the theories now accepted by scientists. He carefully argues out this theory of evolutionof speciesby natural selectionby presenting all the accumulated scientific evidence from his voyage on the HMS Beaglein 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, influence

Ontogeny and Phylogeny

• Stephen Jay Gould
• 1977, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Harvard University Press

Description: Critically revisits Haeckel's idea that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." Gould presents heterochronyas a concept that allows us to describe the majority of developmental processes in evolution. This book played a significant role at the time by bringing the evolutionary biology community back to examine developmental biology, ignored for many years.

Importance: Influence

Genetics

Experiments on Plant Hybridization

• Gregor Mendel
• Proceedings of the Natural History Society, 1866.
• Online version

Description: Experiments on Plant Hybridization was the result after years spent studying genetictraits 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 inheritanceor Mendelian genetics, provided an alternative to blending inheritance, which was the prevailing theory at the time.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact

Histology

Immunology

Limnology

Forel, F.-A. 1892-1902. Le Léman, monegraphie limnologique. Editions Rouges & Cie, Lausanne, Translation D. A.

Marine biology

Microbiology

Molecular biology

DNA Sequencing with Chain-Terminating Inhibitors

• Frederick Sanger, S. Nicklen, and A. R. Coulson
• PNAS, vol. 74, no. 12, p. 5463-5467 (1977)
• (Original text)

Description: The basis of the DNA sequencingtechnique. (Sanger won his second Nobel prizethanks to it).

Importance: Breakthrough, Impact

Molecular Cloning : A Laboratory Manual

• original edition, 1982: E.F.Fritsch, Joe Sambrook, Tom Maniatis
• second edition, 1989: Joe Sambrook, E.F.Fritsch, Tom Maniatis
• third edition, 2001: David W. Russell, Joe Sambrook
• manual published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Official website of the book

Description: The manual (to which is often referred simply as the Maniatis) is universally recognized as the best manual for molecular biology techniques. The theory behind the techniques is also discussed in details. It is cited by thousands of publications.

Importance: Impact

Neurobiology

• David H. Hubeland Torsten Wiesel(1962) "Receptive fields,, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex". Journal of Physiology 160, 106-154.
• "Neuroscience" -- Dale Purves
  
• "Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology" -- Stephen E. Palmer
• Fingelkurts An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A.(2001). "Operational architectonics of the human brain biopotential field: Towards solving the mind-brain problem." Brain and Mind 2(3), 261-296.

Paleontology

Tempo and Mode in Evolution

• George Gaylord Simpson
• Columbia University Press, 1944

Importance:

Parasitology

Pathology

Physiology

Phylogenetics

Phylogenetic Systematics

• Willi Hennig
• University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1966.

Description: This book popularized the techniques of cladisticsin the English-speaking world. It is based on work published in German starting 1950. Willi Hennigis considered the founder of cladistics, which he developed while working as an entomologist in East Germany.

Importance:

Inferring Phylogenies

• Joseph Felsenstein
• Sinauer Associates, 2004.

Description: An excellent technical manual to guide any biologist wishing to construct a phylogenetic hypothesis.

Importance: Possibly the most complete and authoritative work published on phylogenetics to date.

Phylogenetic Inferencing: Beyond Biology

• Edited by Indra Neil Sarkar
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2006.

Description: A special journal issue dedicated almost entirely to review articles about contemporary phylogenetic methods

Importance:

Population biology

Psychiatry

The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

• Dr. Thomas Szasz
• 1960
• Text of the original paper The Myth of Mental Illness

Description: The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a controversial bookby Thomas Szasz. It is highly influential in the anti-psychiatrymovement. In it, Szasz argues that mental illnessis a social constructcreated by doctors. What psychiatristslabel mental illness is in fact a deviation from the consensus reality, Szasz says.

The book extends the arguments of Szasz's paper The Myth of Mental Illness, first published in 1960. In it, Szasz argues that beliefs cannot be caused by brain disease, although such artifacts as visual defects can.

Importance:

Psychobiology

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

• Wilson, E. O
• Sociobiology: The new synthesis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1975.

Description: Wilson introduced the term sociobiologyas an attempt to explain the evolutionarymechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturance. Wilson's book sparked one of the great scientific controversiesin biology of the 20th century.

Importance:

Psychopharmacology

• Fingelkurts An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A., Kähkönen S.A. (2005) "New Perspectives in Pharmaco-Electroencephalography." Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 29(2) 193-199.

Psychophysics

Tracking an object through feature space

• Blaser E, Pylyshyn ZW, Holcombe AO.
• Tracking an object through feature space. Nature. 2000 Nov 9;408(6809):196-9.

Description:

Importnace:

Oncology

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.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

• Bill Bryson

Structural biology

Systems biology

The Future and Limits of Systems Biology

• Werner, E.
• Science STKE, 2005, pe16.
• Online version.

Description: A short critical review of key issues in systems biology.

Importance:

The Meaning of Systems Biology

• Marc W. Kirschner
• Cell, Vol. 121, 503?504, May 20, 2005

Description: A brief justification for systems biology.

Importance:

Taxonomy

Systema Naturae

• Carolus Linnaeus
• First published 1735

Description: With this publication Linneaus codified the basic taxonomic system still in use by biologists today: a rank-based classification with binomial nomenclature for species.

Importance: Topic creator, breakthrough, influence

The Natural History of Selborne

• Gilbert White
• 1813
• The letters

Description: In these letters, White published his observations on birds near his house.

Importance: Impact

Souvenirs entomologiques

• Jean-Henri Fabre
• His works

Description: Fabre investigated insects, both at the anatomical level and the behavioral level.

Importance: Impact

Toxicology

Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons

Virology

Zoology

History of Animals

• Aristotle
• 350 BC
• The history of animals

Description: A work in which Aristotle describes the anatomy of organisms, with a particular emphasis on morphology. Consists of ten books of facts and descriptions. Many claim the book seems unscientific by today's standards.

Importance: Topic creator, Impact

Naturalis Historia

• Gaius Plinius Secundus
• 70
• Naturalis Historia

Description: Encyclopedia of nature. It included many areas that are not considered to be part of nature sciences today - from geography, botany, zoologyto 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

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