RETROSPECTIVE:
Seymour Benzer (1921-2007)
Yuh-Nung Jan and Lily Jan
The adventurous spirit of a molecular geneticist launched an era of behavioral genetic studies, all on the wings of a fruit fly.
The authors are in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. E-mail: yuhnung.jan{at}ucsf.edu; lily.jan{at}ucsf.edu