📚 Chromosomes

Books with chromosomes on their catalogue record, first published between 1899 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chromosomes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,931 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Methods in Cell Biology	David M. Prescott	1964	23
	Mendelian inheritance in man	McKusick, Victor A.	1966	15
	The handling of chromosomes	C. D. Darlington	1942	12
	Looking at chromosomes	John McLeish	1958	8
	Medical genetics at a glance	D. J. Pritchard	2007	8
	Animal cytology & evolution	Michael James Denham White	1945	7
	Cytogenetics	Carl P. Swanson	1967	7
	Human chromosomes	Eeva Therman	1980	7
	Atlas of mammalian chromosomes	Stephen J. O'Brien	2006	7
	Recent advances in cytology	C. D. Darlington	1932	6
	Chromatographic methods	R. Stock	1963	6
	Chromosome Techniques	Archarna Sharma	1994	6
	Plant Chromosomes	Archarna Sharma	1999	6
	Human chromosome methodology	Jorge J. Yunis	1965	5
	The meiotic system	Bernard John	1965	5
	The chromosome complement	Bernard John	1968	5
	Plant chromosomes	Kiichi Fukui	1996	5
	One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research and What Remains to be Learned	A. Lima-de-Faria	1899	4
	Chromosomes today	Sumner, A. T.	1899	4
	Jean Jacques Rousseau and his philosophy	Harald Høffding	1930	4
	The role of chromosomes in development	Michael Locke	1964	4
	The chromosome disorders	G. H. Valentine	1966	4
	Chromosome Damage and Repair	Erling Seeberg	1981	4
	Kew Chromosome Conference II	Kew Chromosome Conference (2nd 1982)	1983	4
	Chromosomes	Kenneth W. Adolph	1989	4
	Chromosomes Today	J. S. Parker	1996	4
	Chromosomes	Adrian T. Sumner	2003	4
	Bacterial artificial chromosomes	Shaying Zhao	2004	4
	ReCombinatorics	Dan Gusfield	2014	4
	Chromosome number and morphology in Nicotiana	Mabel L. Ruttle	1927	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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