TY - BOOK AU - Jim Endersby TI - A Guinea Pig's History of Biology SN - 9780434012596 U1 - 570.72 END-G PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - William Heinemann KW - Animal experimentation -- History. Biology -- History. Biology -- Research -- History. N1 - Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Equus quagga and Lord Morton's mare -- 2. Passiflora gracilis : inside Darwin's greenhouse -- 3. Homo sapiens : Francis Galton's fairground attraction -- 4. Hieracium auricula : what Mendel did next -- 5. Oenothera lamarckiana : Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path -- 6. Drosophila melanogaster : bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks -- 7. Cavia porcellus : mathematical guinea pigs -- 8. Bacteriophage : the virus that revealed DNA -- 9. Zea mays : incorrigible corn -- 10. Arabidopsis thaliana : a fruit fly for the botanists -- 11. Danio rerio : seeing through zebrafish -- 12. OncoMouse® : engineering organisms -- Bibliography, sources and notes -- Index ER -