Commentary: A century of mendelism: On Johannsen's genotype conception

摘要

Inundated by so many recent exciting developments in genomics, we missed the 100-years anniversary of the re-introduction of Mendelism and especially the foundation of the genotype concept following the publication of the paper that changed the face of modern genetics, namely Johannsen's 1911 'The genotype conception of heredity'.Wilhelm johannsen (1857-1927), a pharmacologist by training, served, without any formal university degree, as assistant in the Chemical Department of the newly founded Carlsberg Laboratorium in Copenhagen.