Pacific Science (1988), vol. 42, nos. 1-2 © 1988 by the University of Hawaii Press. All rights reserved Introduction and Bibliography Hampton Carson first came to Hawaii in LITERATURE CITED June 1963 at the urging of Elmo Hardy and Wilson Stone. That year saw the first major CARSON, H. L. 1980. Hypotheses that blur gathering in Honolulu of scientists from and grow. Pages 383-384 in E. Mayr and many specialties in the interdisciplinary and W. B. Provine, eds. The evolutionary syn­ cooperative pattern that has proved so pro­ thesis: Perspectives on the unification of ductive in the study of Hawaiian Drosophila biology. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, on "the Project" (Spieth 1980). Carson came Mass . with Harrison Stalker from Washington SPIETH, H. T. 1980. Hawaiian Drosophila University in St. Louis. Together (following Project. Proc., Hawaiian Entomol. Soc. Dobzhansky), they had developed a power­ 23(2) :275-291. ful method of population studies based on detailed examination of the distribution of inversions in the polytene chromosomes of Bibliography ofHampton Lawrence Carson Drosophila robusta and other species of the 1934-1986 mesic forests of the central and eastern United States. 1. CARSON, H. L. 1934. Labrador quarry. Carson's cytological approach can be traced General Mag. 37(1) :97-104. to the influence of McClung, and especially 2. CARSON, H. L. 1935. Use of medicinal of Metz, during his graduate studies at the herbs among the Labrador Eskimo. University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s General Mag. 37(4):436-439. and early 1940s (Carson 1980). These studies 3. CARSON, H . L. 1940. Red crossbill in combined with his interests in natural North Carolina in summer. Auk 57: history to produce a wide-ranging, synthetic 421. approach to the study of biology, which is re­ 4. CARSON, H . L. 1941. Linkage, interfer­ flected in the considerable diversity of topics ence and semilethals in the white group in the 237 published papers listed below. of Habrobracon. Amer. Nat. 75 :608­ In the breadth of his curiosity and the 614. flexibility of his intellect, Carson himself 5. CARSON, H. L. 1943. Cytological analy­ represents almost an apotheosis ofthe pattern sis of natural populations of Sciara im­ that studies of Hawaiian Drosophila have fol­ patiens. Genetics 28: 71-72 (abstract). lowed . These studies have included essential 6. CARSON, H. L. 1944. An analysis ofnat­ contributions from systematics and tax­ ural chromosome variability in Sciara onomy, ecology, physiology, botany, geology, impatiens Jo hannsen. J. Morph. 75(1): cyto logy, genetics, behavior, and biochemis­ I I- 59. try . Carson has made major contributions in 7. CARSON, H. L. 1945a. A comparative each of these areas either by his own work study of the apical cell of the insect or by bringing to light the relevant work of testis . J. Morph. 77(2): 141-161. others. He has moved from one of these areas 8. CARSON, H . L. 1945b. Delayed fertiliza­ to another as the need for new approaches tion in a captive indigo snake, with arose, and generously encouraged the par­ notes on feeding and shedding. Copeia ticipation of colleagues with new and appro­ 1945(4): 222-225. priate skills, a few of whom are represented 9. CARSON, H. L. 1946a. The selective elim­ in the papers that follow . Future research in ination ofinversion dicentric chromatids evolutionary biology would do well to con­ during meiosis in the eggs of Sciara tinue with such flexible and open approaches. impatiens. Genetics 31:95- 113. 2 PACIFIC SCIENCE, Volume 42, January/Jul y 1988 10. CARSON, H . L., and H. D. STALKER. wild species of Drosophila in the eastern 1946b. Chromosome studies on Dro­ United States. Ecology 32:317-330. sophila robusta. Genetics 31(2) :213 23. CARSON, H. L. 1951b. Breeding sites of (abstract). Drosophila pseudoobscura and Droso­ II. STALKER, H . D. , and H. L. CARSON . phila persimilis in the transition zone of I 946c. Geographical ' variation in the the Sierra Nevada. Evolution 5:91-96. morphology of Drosophila robusta. 24. CARSON, H. L. 1951c. Interfertile sym­ Genetics 31(2): 231 (abstract). patric sibling species within D. bocain­ 12. CARSON, H. L., and H. D . STALKER. ensis Pavan and da Cunha 1947. Dros. 1947a. A seasonal study ofgene arrange­ Inf. Servo25: 103-104. ment frequencies and morphology in 25. CARSON, H. L., and W. C. BLIGHT. Drosophila robusta. Genetics 32(1): 81 1952a. Sex chromosome polymorphism (abstract). in a population of Drosophila ameri­ 13. CARSON, H . L., and H. D . STALKER. cana. Genetics 37: 572 (abstract). 1947b. Gene arrangements in natural 26. CARSON, H . L. 1952b. Contrasting populations of Drosophila robusta types of population structure in Droso­ Sturtevant. Evolution 1(3) : 113-133. phila . Amer. Nat. 86:239-248. 14. STALKER, H . D ., and H . L. CARSON. 27. Carson, H. L. 1952c. A new case of 1947c. Morphological variation in nat­ cryptic species in Drosophila. Science ural populations of Drosophila robusta 116:518 (abstract). Sturtevant. Evolution 1(4):237-248. 28. CARSON, H . L. 1953a. The effects of in­ 15. CARSON, H . L., and H. D. STALKER. versions on crossing over in Drosophila 1948a. Reproductive diapause in Dro­ robusta . Genetics 38: 168-186. sophila robusta. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 29. CARSON, H . L. 1953b. Evolution in the 34 : 124-129. genus Drosophila . J. T. Patterson and 16. CARSON, H . L., and H. D. STALKER. W. S. Stone, 1952. (Review) Amer. Nat. 1948b. An altitudinal transect of gene 87:271 -272. arrangement frequencies in 'Drosophila 30. LEVITAN, M. , H. L. CARSON, and H . D. robusta. Genetics 33: 100 (abstract). STALKER. 1954a. Triads of overlapping 17. STALKER, H . D. , and H . L. CARSON. inversions in Drosophila robusta. Amer. 1948c. Seasonal changes in gene ar­ Nat. 88: 113-114. rangement frequencies and morphology 31. CARSON, H. L. 1954b. Interfertile sib­ of Drosophila robusta . Genetics 33 : ling species in the willistoni group of 629-630 (abstract). Drosophila. Evolution 8: 148-165. 18. STALKER, H . D ., and H . L. CARSON. 32. CARSON, H . L. 1954c. Hybridization 1948d. An altitudinal transect of Droso­ experiments with two sympatric sibling phila robusta Sturtevant. Evolution 2: species of the willistoni group of Dro­ 295-305. sophila . Caryologia 6(suppI.): 653 19. STALKER, H. D ., and H . L. CARSON. (abstract). I 949a. Seasonal variation in the mor­ 33. CARSON, H . L. 1955a. Variation in ge­ phology of Drosophila robusta Sturt­ netic recombination in natural popula­ evant. Evolution 3: 330-343. tions. J. Cell. CompoPhysioI. 45(suppI. 20. CARSON, H. L., and H . D . STALKER . 2):221 -236. I 949b. Seasonal variation in gene ar­ 34. CARSON, H. L. 1955b. The genetic char­ rangement frequencies over a three­ acteristics of marginal populations of year period in Drosophila robusta Sturt­ Drosophila. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. evant. Evolution 3: 322-329. Quant. BioI. 20: 276-287. 21. CARSON, H. L., and H . D . STALKER. 35. DORSEY, C. K., and H . L. CARSON. 1950. Natural breeding sites for Droso­ 1956a. Selective response ofwild Droso­ phila robusta. Genetics 35: 100 (abstract). philidae to natural and artificial attra­ 22. CARSON, H. L., and H. D . STALKER. hents. Ann . Entomol. Soc. Amer. 49 : 1951a. Natural breeding sites for some 177-181. Introduction and Bibliograph y 3 36. CARSON, H. L. 1956b. Marginal homo­ of recombination in Drosophila. Cold zygosity for gene arrangement in Droso­ Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. BioI. 23: phila robusta. Science 123: 630-631. 291-306. 37. CARSON, H. L., E. P. KNAPP, and H. J. 49. CARSON, H. L. 1958d. Increase in fitness PHAFF. 1956c. Studies on the ecology of in experimental populations resulting Drosophila in the Yosemite region of from heterosis. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. California. III. The yeast flora of the 44 : 1136-1141. natural breeding sites of some species 50. SUSMAN, M., and H. L. CARSON. 1958e. ofDrosophila. Ecology 37(3): 538-544. Development ofbalanced polymorphism 38. DOBZHANSKY, T., D. M. COOPER , H. J. in laboratory populations of Drosophi­ PHAFF, E. P. K NAPP, and H . L. CARSON. la melanogaster. Amer. Nat. 92 :359­ 1956d. Studies on the ecology of Droso­ 364. phila in the Yosemite region of Cali­ 51. CARSON, H. L. 19581 A study ofexperi­ fornia. IV. Differential attraction of mental populations of Drosophila. Proc . species of Drosophila to different species Entomol. Soc. Amer. No. Cent. Br. 13: ofyeasts . Ecology 37(3) :544-550. 22. 39. CARSON, H. L. 1956e. Response of Dro­ 52. MURDY, W. H ., and H . L. CARSON. sophila robusta to selection for motility. 1959a. Parthenogenesis in Drosophila Genetics 41: 636-637 (abstract). mangebeirai. Amer. Nat. 93: 355-363. 40. CARSON, H. L. 19561 A female-pro­ 53. CARSON, H. L. 1959b. Effect of irradia­ ducing strain of D. borealis Patterson. tion on artificial populations under Dros. Inf. Servo 30: 109-110. strong natural selection. Rec. Genet. 41. CARSON, H. L., M. R. WHEELER, and Soc. Amer. 28: 63 (abstract). W. B. HEED. 1957a. A parthenogenetic 54. CARSON, H. L. 1959c. Genetic con­ strain of Drosophila mangabeirai ditions which promote or retard the Malogolowkin. Univ. Texas Pub. 5721 : formation of species. Cold Spring 115-122. Harbor Symp. Quant. BioI. 24: 87-105. 42. CARSON, H . L. 1957b. The species as a 55. CARSON, H. L. 1960. Survival of newly field for gene recombination. Pages induced chromosome aberrations in 23-38 in E. Mayr, ed. The species prob­ experimental populations of Drosophi­ lem. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Pub. 50: la melanogaster. Genetics 45: 980-98I 23-38. Washington, D .C. (abstract). 43. CARSON, H. L. 1957c. Parrot-watching. 56. CARSON, H. L. 1961a. Variation. Pages Bull. St. Louis Aud. Soc. 26 : 1-3. 1047-1049 in The encyclopedia of the 44. CARSON, H . L. 1957d. Production of biological sciences.