Genetic Information: A Metaphor in Search of a Theory

By Paul E. Griffiths. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2001

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The transmission sense of information (2008, background): “> 0, then we are not acknowleding the direction of information from genotype to phenotype (Godfrey-Smith, 2000b, 2008; Griffiths, 2001).”
How biologists conceptualize genes: An empirical study (2004, background): “The other informational and cybernetic locutions used in molecular biology are equally applicable to genetic and non-genetic factors in development, and if taken seriously, require a recognition of the fact that the developmental significance of a causal factor is a function of its developmental con”
Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems (2007, background): “Thus, a version of the parity thesis is accepted (Griffiths 2001).”
Unlocking the Black Box between Genotype and Phenotype: Cell Condensations as Morphogenetic (modular) Units (2003, background): “…phrase ‘the phenotype of the gene’ for inherited patterns such as DNA methylation, the structural conformation states of chromatin, and genetic imprinting (Lewontin 1974, 2000; Maclean and Hall 1987; Holliday 1994; Hall 1998a, 1999, 2001a; Keller 2000; Griffiths 2001; Malcolm and Goodship 2001).”