Calvin Blackman Bridges Unconventional Geneticist (1889-1938)

Calvin’s Bibliography

T.H. Morgan prepared a bibliography of
Bridges’ publications after his death.

Calvin in the Columbia Fly Room with his microscope setup.
Courtesy of Betsey Bridges Collection

  • 1913
  • Partial sex-linkage in the pigeon. Science, n. s. 37: 112-113.
  • Non-disjunction of the sex chromosomes of Drosophila. Jour. Exp. Zool., 15: 587-606.
  • Dilution effects and bicorlorism in certain eye colors of Drosophila. (With T. H. Morgan.) Jour. Exp. Zool, 15: 429-466.
  • 1914
  • Direct proof through non-disjunction that the sex-linked genes of Drosophila. are borne by the X-chromosome. Science, n. s. 40: 107-109.
  • The chromosome hypothesis of linkage applied to cases in sweet peas and primula. Atner. Nat., 48: 524-534.
  • A new gene in the second chromosome of Drosophila. and some considerations on differential viability. (With A. H. Sturtevant.) Biol. Bull., 26: 205-212.
  • 1915
  • A linkage variation in Drosophila. Jour. Exp. Zool., 19: 1-21.
  • The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity. (With T. H. Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant, and H. J. Muller.) New York, 262 pp.
  • 1916
  • Non-disjunction as proof of the chromosome theory of heredity. Genetics, 1: 1-52, 107-163.
  • Sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila. (With T. H. Morgan.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ., 237: 87 pp.
  • 1917
  • The elimination of males in alternate generations of sex-controlled lines. Anat. Rec, 11: 504.
  • An intrinsic difficulty for the variable force hypothesis of crossing over. Amer. Nat., 51: 370-373.
  • Deficiency. Genetics, 2 : 445-465.
  • Incompatibility of mutant races in Drosophila. (With C. W. Metz.) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci, 3: 673-678.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie hist. Wash. Yr. Bk., 15: 343-
  • 1918
  • Maroon – a recurrent mutation in Drosophila. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 4: 316-318.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie hist. Wash. Yr. Bk., 16: 290-291.
  • 1919
  • Duplication. Anat. Rec, 15: 357.
  • The genetics of purple eye color in Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Exp. Zool., 28: 265-305.
  • Specific modifiers of eosin eye color in Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Exp. Zool., 28: 337-384.
  • Vermilion-deficiency. Jour. Gen. PhysioL, 1: 645-656.
  • The developmental stages at which mutations occur in the germ tract. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 17: 1-2.
  • The inheritance of the mutant character “vortex.” (With O. L. Mohr.) Genetics, 4: 283-306.
  • The second-chromosome group of mutant characters. (With T. H. Morgan.) Carnegie hist. Wash. Publ., 278: 123-304.
  • The origin of gynandromorphs. (With T. H. Morgan.)Carnegie hist. Wash. Publ., 278: 1-122.
  • The construction of chromosome maps. (With T. H. Morgan.) Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 16: 96-97.
  • The inheritance of a fluctuating character. (With T. H. Morgan.) Jour. Gen. Physiol., 1: 639-643.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 17: 277-278.
  • The spatial relations of genes. (With A. H. Sturtevant and T. H. Morgan.) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 5: 168-173.
  • 1920
  • White-ocelli – an example of a “slight” mutant character with normal variability. Biol. Bull, 38: 231-236.
  • The mutant crossveinless in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 6: 660-663.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 18: 324-325.
  • The evidence for the linear order of the genes. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 6: 162-164.
  • 1921
  • Gametic and observed ratios in Drosophila. Amer. Nat., 55: 52-61.
  • Proof of non-disjunction for the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Science, n. s. 53: 308.
  • Current maps of the location of the mutant genes of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 7: 127-132.
  • Genetical and cytological proof of non-disjunction of the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 7: 186-192.
  • Triploid intersexes in Drosophila melanogaster. Science, n. s. 54: 252-254.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 19: 329-33I-
  • 1922
  • The origin of variations in sexual and sex-limited characters. Amer. Nat., 56: 51-63-
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 20: 375-380.
  • 1923
  • The translocation of a section of chromosome II upon chromosome III in Drosophila. Anat. Rec, 24: 426-427.
  • Aberrations in chromosomal materials. Eugenics, Genetics, and the Family. 1: 76-81.
  • The third-chromosome group of mutant characters of Drosophila melanogaster. (With T. H. Morgan.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. PubL, 327: 251
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 21: 325-328.
  • The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity. Revised Edition. (With T. H. Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant and H. J. Muller.) New York, 357 pp.
  • Laboratory Directions for an Elementary Course in Genetics. (With T. H. Morgan, A. H. Sturtevant, and H. J. Muller.) New York, 16 pp.
  • 1924
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 22: 283-287.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 23: 231-236.
  • 1925
  • Sex in relation to chromosomes and genes. Amer. Nat., 59: 127-137.
  • Elimination of chromosomes due to a mutant (Minute-n) in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 11: 701-706.
  • Haploidy in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 11: 706-710.
  • Crossing over in the X-chromosomes of triploid females of Drosophila melanogaster. (With E. G. Anderson.) Genetics, 10: 418-441.
  • The Genetics of Drosophila. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Biblographia Genetica, 2: 1-262.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 24: 286-288.
  • The mechanism of sex-determination. Proc. Birth Con. Cong., New York. p. 10.
  • Genetics of Sciara. Rep. of paper by C. W. Metz. “The Collecting Net,” Woods Hole, Mass., 1: 7.
  • The multiple stock ‘Xple’ and its use. (With T. M. Olbrycht.) Genetics, 11: 41-56.
  • The linkage relations of a benign Tumor in Drosophila. (With M. B. Stark.) Genetics, 11: 249-266.
  • The mutants of the extreme left end of the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. (With C. Stern.) Genetics, 11: 503-530.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 25: 312-315-
  • 1927
  • The relation of the age of the female to crossing over in the third chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Gen. Physiol., 8: 689-700.
  • Constrictions in the chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. Biol. Zentral., 47: 600-603.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 26: 284-288.
  • 1928
  • The chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. "The Collecting Net," Woods Hole, Mass., 3: 10-11.
  • The behavior of mutable genes. Review. Ibid. 3: 10.
  • Chromosome aberrations and the improvement of animal forms. Jour. Heredity, 19: 349-354-
  • Some physicochemical aspects of life, mutation and evolution. (With Jerome Alexander.) Anat. Rec., 41: 96.
  • Some physicochemical aspects of life, mutation and evolution. (With J. Alexander.) Colloid Chemistry; Vol. II; Biology and Medicine. Chemical Catalogue Co., pp. 9-58.
  • The reproductive system of triploid intersexes in Drosophila melanogaster. (With Th. Dobzhansky.) Amer. Nat., 62: 425-434.
  • The giant mutation in Drosophila melanogaster: Part I; the heredity of giant. (With E. Gabritschevsky.) Zeit. Abst. Vererb., 46: 231-248.
  • The giant mutation in Drosophila melanogaster: Part II; Physiological aspects of the giant race; the giant ‘caste.’ (With E. Gabritschevsky.) Zeit. Abst. Vererb., 46: 248-284.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 27: 330-335-
  • 1929
  • Variation in crossing over in relation to age of female in Drosophila melanogaster. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ., 399: 63-89.
  • Deficient regions of Notches in Drosophila melanogaster. (With J. C. Li.) Ibid. 91-99.
  • Some physicochemical aspects of life, mutation and evolution. (With J. Alexander.) Science, 70: 508-510.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and A. H. Sturtevant.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 28: 338-345-
  • 1930
  • Review of the seminar report of Dr. Huettner. “The Collecting Net,” Woods Hole, Mass., 5: 113-115.
  • The neutralization of the effects of deficiencies through duplications of the chromosome materials. Ibid., 5: 273-274..
  • Haploid Drosophila and the theory of genic balance. Science, 72: 405-406.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 29: 352-359-
  • 1931
  • El tipo mutante “pink-wing” de Drosophila melanogaster. Un problema de localizacion. English summary. “Eos,” 7: 229-248.
  • The genetic conception of life. Address given before Academy of Science, U.S.S.R., Leningrad.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 30: 408-415.
  • 1932
  • The suppressors of purple. Zeit. Abst. Vererb., 60: 207-218.
  • Apparatus and methods for Drosophila culture. Amer. Nat., 66: 250-273.
  • Specific suppressors in Drosophila. Proc. 6th Int. Cong. Genetics, 2: 12-14.
  • The genetics of sex in Drosophila. Sex and Internal Secretions. Baltimore, Chap. I l l : 55-93.
  • Recombination and crossing-over. Amer. Nat., 66, 571-574.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 31: 3O3-3O7-
  • Methods for distinguishing between duplications and specific suppressors. (With Jack Schultz.) Amer. Nat., 66: 323-334.
  • 1933
  • A system of temperature control. (With Hugh H. Darby.) Jour. Franklin Inst., 215: 723-730.
  • Culture media for Drosophila and the pH of media. I. Improvements in culture methods: the role of yeast. (With Hugh H. Darby.) Amer. Nat., 67: 437-472.
  • The mutant “proboscipedia” in Drosophila
    melanogaster
    – a case of heredity homoosis. (With Th. Dobzhansky.) Arch. Entw.-mech., 127: 575-590.
  • Constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 32: 298-302.
  • 1934
  • The test-cross – a suggested genetic term. Jour. Heredity, 25: 18.
  • A gas-operated incubator for Drosophila cultures. (With J. C. Li.) Peking Nat. Hist. Bull, 8: 269-272.
  • Constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 33: 274-280.
  • 1935
  • The mutants and linkage data of chromosome four of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Biol. (Moscow), 4: 401-420.
  • Salivary chromosome maps – with a key to the banding of the chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Heredity, 26: 60-64.
  • Cytological data on chromosome four of Drosophila melanogaster. Trans. Dyn. Develop., 10: 463-473.
  • The apterous-d mutation in Drosophila melanogaster (Russian, with English summary). (With N. N. Medvedev.) Bull. lust. Gen., No. 10: 199-209.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 34: 284-291.
  • 1936
  • Genetical and cytological studies of a deficiency (Notopleural) in the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. (With Eleanor Nichols Skoog and J. C. Li.) Genetics, 21: 788-795.
  • Demonstrations (1) of the first translocations in Drosophila melanogaster and (2) of normal repeats in chromosomes. Amer. Nat., 70: 41.
  • The Bar "gene" a duplication. Science, 83: 210-211.
  • Microscope illumination systems. “The Collecting Net,” Woods Hole, Mass., 11: 208.
  • An oil-retaining beveled face for high-aperture condensers. Science, 84: 335-336-
  • Genes and chromosomes. The Teaching Biologist, Nov. 1936.
  • Progress in cytogenetics. “The Collecting Net,” Woods Hole, Mass., 11: 244-245.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 35: 289-297.
  • 1937
  • The vapor method of changing reagents and of dehydration. Stain Technology, 12: 51-52.
  • Correspondences between linkage maps and salivary chromosome structure, as illustrated in the tip of Chromosome 2R of Drosophila melanogaster. Cytologia, Fujii Jubilee, Vol., 745-755.
  • Revised data on culture media and mutant loci of Drosophila melanogaster. Tabulae Biologicae, 14: 343-353.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 36: 298-305.
  • 1938
  • A revised map of the salivary gland X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Heredity, 29: 11-13.
  • The future of genetics. Current Science, Special number on "“Genetics,” Mar. 1938, 37-39.
  • Salivary analysis of inversion-3R-Payne in the “venation” stock of Drosophila melanogaster. (With P. N. Bridges.) Genetics, 23: 111-114.
  • Is agglutination an explanation for the occurrence and for the chromomere- to-chromomere specificity of synapsis? (With C. C. Lindegren.) Science, 87: 510-511.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan and Jack Schultz.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 37: 304-309-
  • 1939
  • Cytological and genetic basis of sex. Sex and Internal Secretions. Second edition. Baltimore, Chap. II, 15-63.
  • A new map of the second chromosome. A revised map of the right limb of the second chromosome ofDrosophila melanogaster. (With P. N. Bridges.) Jour. Heredity 30: 475-476.
  • The constitution of the germinal material in relation to heredity. (With T. H. Morgan, Jack Schultz and Viola S. Curry.) Carnegie Inst. Wash. Yr. Bk., 38: 273-277.