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Richard C. Starr
Richard C. Starr
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significant insights into life history events of algae, including isolation and identification of several plant sexual hormones. His professional contributions and collaborations and associations that arose from them were worIc~wicle, earning him major prizes en cl awards, all richly cleservecI.
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through its various life stages. The life history characteristics of such simple soil algae were only revealed by establishing and studying pure cultures, using techniques previously developed by others for bacterial and fungal research.
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With the passing years, thanks to his developing habit of driving around the countryside sampling pig poncis, drainage basins, pools en cl streams, trees, soils, en cl even hoof prints, aciclitional clonal isolates of a wicle variety of algae accumulates! in the collection.
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He made certain that his students learned all the techniques of isolating and establishing clonal populations of algae they had collected in the field, including how best to induce their asexual and sexual reproductive phases to reveal hitherto unsuspected events. For the Volvocacean family particularly, a vast foundation of information was compiled and numerous isolates were added to the culture collection.
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Funcling for student research came from his own grants or else he macle suggestions on fellowship application procedures. Years after a student hacl left for a permanent faculty position elsewhere, he could always be depended upon for a glowing letter of support.
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An almost unbroken string of summers from 1952 to 1963 fount! Starr at Woocis Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, teaching the marine phycology course, a situation where his teaching influenced a large proportion of the coming generations of phycologists.
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to the continuing line of Volvocalean work, but he never missecl an opportunity to initiate a culture of a new or unusual organism. The cyanobacterial genus namecl in his honor by a former student was cliscoverecl by Starr in a soil sample he hacl collectecl from near the Great Ruins in Zimbabwe.
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to his chairmanship of the organizing committee for the first International Phycological Congress ~978) , en cl his joining the first clelegation of American botanists to visit China after the Cultural Revolution.
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his living cultures were subjects of magnificent color films involving time-lapse views of dynamic processes such as colony inversion in Volvos en cl gamete fusion in Spirogyra. He taught all his graduate students to use the darkroom en cl the fruits of this instruction are well clemonstratecl in their beautifully illustratecl dissertations en cl subsequent publications.
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312 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS TAXA NAMED IN HONOR OF RICHARD STARR Starria gen.
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Life history and physiology of reproduction of Platydorina caudata Kofoid.
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Purification and characterization of the hormone initiating sexual morphogenesis in Volvox carter)
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Signals for the timing of differentiation in Volvox: Amino acids and glycoproteins as messenger molecules. Nova ACTA Leopoldina 1\~ 56:467-72.
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