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New York Aquarium. Fish Genetics Laboratory

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

New York Aquarium. Fish Genetics Laboratory. Office of Geneticist. Myron Gordon records

 Fonds
Identifier: 3021
Abstract The collection holds records from Myron Gordon, Geneticist at the New York Aquarium’s Fish Genetics Laboratory. Gordon, who also held a staff appointment at the American Museum of Natural History, was known for his research on the genetic aspects of and mechanisms for speciation, sex determination, and tumor development in platyfish and swordtails, the fishes that comprise the Xiphophorus genus. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, and...
Dates: 1900 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1958

New York Aquarium. Office of Director. Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates records

 Fonds
Identifier: 3009
Abstract The collection holds records from Charles M. Breder and Christopher W. Coates, who were, respectively, the last Director of the New York Aquarium in its original building in Battery Park on Manhattan (where it was located from 1896 to 1941) and the first Director of the New York Aquarium in its current facility on Coney Island in Brooklyn (where it has been located from 1957 until the present). Breder's records pertain primarily to the work of Myron Gordon at the Aquarium's Fish Genetics...
Dates: 1939 - 1956

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Cancer in animals 1
Electrophorus (Fish) 1
Fishes -- Genetics 1