Download or read book The Discovery and Characterization of Transposable Elements written by Barbara McClintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction was written by Barbara McClintock to show how the concept of transposable elements evolved, and to comment on subsequent investigations of these elements. The papers in this volume were selected because of their relevance to this topic. For the discovery of "Mobile genetic elements" she received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983.