Publications
Papers on Cellular Slime Molds
1944 Bonner, J. T. A descriptive study on the development of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Amer. J. Bot. 31: 175-182.
1945 Bonner, J. T., D. Eldredge, Jr. A note on the rate of morphogenetic movement in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Growth 9: 287-297.
1947 Bonner, J. T. Evidence for the formation of cell aggregates by chemotaxis in the development of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Exp. Zool. 106:1-26.
(1965 - Reprinted in Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Development. E. Bell, ed., Harper and Row).
(1966 - Reprinted in Developmental Biology. R. A. Flickinger, ed., Wm. C. Brown).
(1970 - Reprinted in The Process of Biology: Primary Sources, J. J. W. Baker and G. E. Allen eds., Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
1949 Bonner, J. T., M. K. Slifkin. A study of the control of differentiation: The proportions of stalk and spore cells in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Amer. J. Bot. 36: 727-734.
1949 Bonner, J. T. The demonstration of acrasin in the later stages of the develoment of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Exp. Zool. 110: 259-272.
1950 Bonner, J. T. Observations on polarity in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Biol. Bull. 99: 143-151.
1950 Bonner, J. T., W. W. Clarke, Jr., C. L. Neely, Jr. and M. K. Slifkin. The orientation to light and the extremely sensitive orientation to temperature gradients in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Cell. Comp. Physiol. 36: 149-158.
1952 Slifkin, M. K. and J. T. Bonner. The effects of salts and inorganic solutes on the migration time of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Biol. Bull. 102: 273-277.
1952 Bonner, J. T. The pattern of differentiation in amoeboid slime molds. Amer. Nat. 86: 79-89.
1952 Bonner, J. T., E. B. Frascella. Mitotic activity in relation to differentiation in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Exp. Zool. 121: 561-572.
1953 Bonner, J. T., P. G. Koontz and D. Paton. Size in relation to the rate of migration in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Mycologia 45: 235-240.
1953 Bonner, J. T., E. B. Frascella. Variations in cell size during the development of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Biol. Bull. 104: 297-300.
1955 Bonner, J. T., A. D. Chiquoine and M. Q. Kolderie. A histo-chemical study of differentiation in the cellular slime molds. J. Exp. Zool. 130: 133-158.
1957 Bonner, J. T., M. J. Shaw. The role of humidity in the differentiation of the cellular slime mold molds. J. Cell Comp. Physiol. 50: 145-154.
1957 Bonner, J. T. A theory of the control of differentiation in the cellular slime molds. Quart. Rev. Biol. 32: 232-246.
(1976 - Reprinted in the 50th Anniversary Special Issue, 1926-1976 of the Quarterly Review of Biology. Stony Brook Foundation, New York).
1958 Bonner, J. T. and M. S. Adams. Cell mixtures of different species and strains of cellular slime molds. J. Embryol. Exp. Morph. 6: 346-356.
1959 Bonner, J. T. Evidence for the sorting out of cells in the development of the cellular slime molds. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 45: 379-384.
1960 Bonner, J. T. Development in the Cellular Slime Molds: The role of cell division, cell size and cell number. 18th Growth Symposium, Ronald Press, D. Rudnick, editor. pp. 3-20.
1960 Russell, G. K. and J. T. Bonner. A note on spore germination in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium mucoroides. Bull. Torrey. Bot. Club 87: 187-191.
1962 Bonner, J. T. and M. R. Dodd. Aggregation territories in the cellular slime molds. Biol. Bull. 122: 13-24.
1962 Bonner, J. T. and M. R. Dodd. Evidence for gas-induced orientation in the cellular slime molds. Develop. Biol. 5: 344-361.
1963 Bonner, J. T. and M. E. Hoffman. Evidence for a substance responsible for the spacing pattern of aggregation and fruiting in the cellular slime molds. J. Embryol. Exper. Morph. 11: 103-121.
1963 Bonner, J. T. Epigenetic development in the cellular slime molds. In the 17th Soc. Exper. Biol. Symposium on Cell Differentiation. pp. 341-358.
1964 Bonner, J. T. Physiology of Development in Cellular Slime Molds (Acrasiales) Chapter in Handb d. Pflanzenphysiologie, Vol. XV 1 Springer. A. Lang, ed., pp. 612-640.
1965 Bonner, J. T. and F. E. Whitfield. The relation of sorocarp size to phototaxis in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium purpureum. Biol. Bull. 128: 51-57.
1966 Bonner, J. T., A. Kelso and R. Gillmor. A new approach to the problem of aggregation in the cellular slime molds. Biol. Bull. 130: 28-42.
1967 Konijn, T. M., K. van de Meene, J. T. Bonner and D. S. Barkley. The acrasin activity of adenosine-3', 5'-cyclic phosphate. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 58: 1152-1154.
1968 Konijn, T. M., D. S. Barkley, Y. Y. Chang and J. T. Bonner. Cyclic AMP: a naturally occurring acrasin in the cellular slime molds. Am. Natl. 102: 225-233.
1969 Bonner, J. T., D. S. Barkley, E. M. Hall, T. M. Konijn, J. W. Mason, G. O'Keefe, III and P. B. Wolfe. Acrasin, acrasinase and the sensitivity to acrasin in Dictyostelium discoideum. Develop. Biol. 20: 72-87.
1969 Konijn, T. M., J. G. C. van de Meene, Y. Y. Chang, D. S. Barkley, and J. T.Bonner. Identification of adenosine-3', 5'-monophosphate as the bacterial attractant for myxamoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Bact. 99: 510-512.
1969 Konijn, T. M., Y. Y. Chang and J. T. Bonner. Synthesis of cyclic AMP in Dictyostelium discoideum and Polyspondylium pallidum. Nature 224:1211- 1212.
1970 Bonner, J. T. Induction of stalk cell differentiation by cyclic AMP in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 65: 110-113.
1970 Bonner, J. T. and E. M. Hall, W. Sachsenmaier and B. K. Walker. Evidence for a second chemotactic system in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Bacteriol. 102: 682-687.
1971 Bonner, J. T. Cyclic AMP in the cellular slime molds. In Adenyl Cyclase. M. Rodbell and P. Condliffe, eds., Fogarty International Center Proc. 4: 247-262.
1971 Bonner, J. T. Aggregation and differentiation in the cellular slime molds. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 25: 75-92.
1971 Bonner, J. T., T. W. Sieja and E. M. Hall. Further evidence for the sorting out of cells in the differentiation of the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Embryol. Exptl. Morph. 25: 457-465.
1971 Bonner, J. T., M. F. Hirshfield and E. M. Hall. Comparison of a leukocyte and a cellular slime mold chemotaxis test. Exptl. Cell. Res. 68: 61-64.
1972 Pan, P., E. M. Hall and J. T. Bonner. Folic acid as a second chemotactic substance in the cellular slime moulds. Nature New Biol. 237: 181-182.
1972 Bonner, J. T., E. M. Hall, S. Noller, F. B. Oleson, Jr. and A. B. Roberts. Synthesis of cyclic AMP and phosphodiesterase in various species of cellular slime molds and its bearing on chemotaxis and differentiation. Develop. Biol. 29: 402-409.
1973 Bonner, J. T. Hormones in Social Amoebae. In Humoral Control of Growth and Differentiation, Vol. 11, J. Lobue and A. S. Gordon, eds., Academic Press,New York. pp. 81-98.
1974 Pan, P., J. T. Bonner, H. J. Wedner and C. W. Parker. Immunofluorescence evidence for the distribution of cyclic AMP in cells and cell masses of the cellular slime molds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 71: 1623-1625.
1975 Pan, P., E. M. Hall and J. T. Bonner. Determination of the active portion of the folic acid molecule in cellular slime mold chemotaxis. J. Bact. 122: 185-191.
1975 Machac, M. and J. T. Bonner. Evidence for a sex hormone in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Bact. 124: 1624-1625.
1976 Wurster, B., P. Pan, G. G. Tyan and J. T. Bonner. Preliminary characterization of the acrasin of the cellular slime mold Polysphondylium violaceum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 73: 795-799.
1976 Bonner, J. T. Signalling system in Dictyostelium. In The Development Biology of Plants and Animals. C. F. Graham and P. F. Waring, eds. Blackwell Sci. Publ., Oxford. pp. 204-215.
1977 Sternfeld, J. and J. T. Bonner. Cell differentiation in Dictyostelium under submerged conditions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74: 268-271.
1977 Keating, M. T. and J. T. Bonner. Negative chemotaxis in cellular slime molds. J. Bact. 130: 144-147.
1977 Bonner, J. T. Some aspects of chemotaxis using the cellular slime molds as an example. Mycologia 69: 443-459.
1977 Thadani, V., P. Pan and J. T. Bonner. Complementary effects of ammonia and cyclic AMP on aggregation territory size in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium mucoroides. Exper. Cell. Res. 108: 75-78.
1979 MacWilliams, H. K. and J. T. Bonner. The prestalk-prespore pattern in cellular slime molds. Differentiation 14: 1-22.
1979 Fong, D. and J. T. Bonner. Proteases in cellular slime mold development: Evidence for their involvement. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76: 6481-6485.
1980 Cone, R. D. and J. T. Bonner. Evidence for aggregation center induction by the ionophore A23187 in the cellular slime mold Polysphondylium violaceum. Exper. Cell Res. 128: 479-485.
1981 Williams, K. L., P. R. Fisher, H. K. MacWilliams and J. T. Bonner. Cell patterning in Dictyostelium discoideum. Differentiation 18: 61-63.
1981 Swanson, J. A., D. L. Taylor and J. T. Bonner. Coated vesicles in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Ultrastructr. Res. 75: 243-249.
1982 Bonner, J. T. Evolutionary strategies and developmental constraints in the cellular slime molds. Am. Nat. 119: 530-552.
1982 Bonner, J. T., T. A. Davidowski, W.-L. Hsu, D. A. Lapeyrolerie and H. L. B. Suthers. The role of surface water and light on differentiation in the cellular slime molds. Differentiation 21: 123-126.
1982 Bonner, J. T. The comparative biology of cellular slime molds. In The Development of Dictyostelium. W. F. Loomis, ed., Academic Press. pp. 1-33.
1982 Bozzone, D. M. and J. T. Bonner. Macrocyst formation in Dictyostelium discoideum: mating or selfing? J. Exp. Zool. 220: 391-394.
1982 Shimomura, O., H. L. B. Suthers and J. T. Bonner. The chemical identity of the acrasin of the cellular slime mold Polysphondylium violaceum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79: 7376-7379.
1983 Bonner, J. T., and . Identification of the optical isomers of the amino acids in Polysphondylium violaceum. FEBS Letters 155: 155-156.
1984 Bonner, J. T., C. J. Sundeen and H. B. Suthers. Patterns of glucose utilization and protein synthesis in the development of Dictyostelium discoideum. Differentiation 26: 103-106.
1984 Bonner, J. T., and P. C. Newell. Signalling systems in Dictyostelium. In Development Control in Animals and Plants, C. F. Graham and P. F. Waring, eds., 2nd Edition., Blackwell Sci. Publ., Oxford. pp. 297-312.
1985 Bonner, J. T., A. Hay, D. G. John and H. B. Suthers. pH affects fruiting and slug orientation in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Embryol. Exp. Morph. 87: 207-213.
1985 Bonner, J. T., B. D. Joyner, A. Moore, H. B. Suthers and J. A. Swanson. Successive asexual life cycles of starved amoebae in the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium mucoroides var. stoloniferum, J. Cell. Sci. 76: 23-30.
1985 Odell, G. M. and J. T. Bonner. How the Dictyostelium discoideum grex crawls. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., London, B. 312: 487-525.
1986 Bonner, J. T., H. B. Suthers and G. M. Odell. Ammonia orients cell masses and speeds up aggregating cells of slime moulds. Nature 323: 630-632.
1988 Bonner, J. T., A. Chiang, L. Lee and H. B. Suthers. The possible role of ammonia in phototaxis of migrating slugs of Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 85: 3885-3887.
1988 De Wit, R. J. W., X. P. van Bemmelen, L. C. Penning, J. E. Pinas, T. D. Calandra and J. T. Bonner. Studies of cell surface glorin receptors, glorin degradation and glorin-induced cellular responses during development of Polysphondylium violaceum. Exper. Cell. Res. 179: 332-343.
1989 Bonner, J. T., D. Har and H. B. Suthers. Ammonia and thermotaxis: further evidence for a central role of ammonia in the directed cell mass movements of Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 86: 2733-2736.
1990 Bonner, J. T., I.N.Feit, A. K. Selasse and H. B. Suthers. Timing of the formation of the prestalk and prespore zones in Dictyostelium discoideum.Develop. Genetics. 11: 439-441.
1990 Feit, I.N., J. T. Bonner and H. B. Suthers. Regulation of the anterior-like cell state by ammonia in Dictyostelium discoideum. Develop. Genetics. 11: 442-446.
1993 Bonner, J. T. Proteolysis and orientation in Dictyostelium slugs. J. Gen Microbiol. 139: 2319-2322.
1994 Bonner, J. T. and J. G. Williams. Inhibition of cAMP dependent protein kinase in Dictyostelium prestalk cells impairs slug migration and phototaxis. Devel. Biol. 164: 325-327.
1994 Bonner, J. T. The migration stage of Dictyostelium: behavior without muscles or nerves. FEMS Microbiol. Letters. 120: 1-8.
1994 Gadagkar, R. and J.T.Bonner. Social insects and social amoebae. J.Biosciences 19: 219-245.
1995 Bonner, J. T. Why does slug length correlate with speed during migration in Dictyostelium discoideum? J. Biosciences 20: 1-6.
1995 Bonner, J. T., K.B.Compton, E.C.Cox, P.Fey, and K.Y.Gregg. Development in one dimension: The rapid differentiation of Dictyostelium discoideum in glass capillaries. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 92: 8249-8253.
1995 Bonner, J. T. and E.C.Cox. Pattern formation in dictyostelids. Seminars in Dev. Biol. 6: 359-360.
1998 Bonner, J. T. A way of following individual cells in the migrating slugs of Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 95: 9335-9395.
1998 Bonner, J. T., L. Segel and E. C. Cox. Oxygen and differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum. J. Biociences 23: 177-184.
1999 Bonner, J. T. The history of the cellular slime moulds as a "model system" for developmental biology. J. Biosciences 24: 7-11.
2000 Bonner, J. T., P. Fey and E. C. Cox. Expression of prestalk and prespore proteins in minute, two-dimensional Dictyostelium slugs. Mechanisms of Development 86: 253-254.
2001 Bonner, J. T. A note on the number of cells in a slug of Dictyostelium discoideum. http://dictybase.org/bonner%20paper.pfd
Books
1952 Bonner, J. T. Morphogenesis: An Essay on Development. Princeton University Press. 298 pp.
(1963) - paperback edition - Atheneum Press
(1965) - Indian edition - Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
1955 Cells and Societies. Princeton University Press. 248 pp.
(1959 - Italian edition, S.A.I.E., Torino)
(1962 - Spanish edition, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires)
1958 Bonner, J. T. The Evolution of Development. Cambridge University Press. 110 pp.
1959 Bonner, J. T. The Cellular Slime Molds. Princeton University Press. 150 pp.
(1967 - Second Edition 205 pp.)
1962 Bonner, J. T. The Ideas of Biology. Harper and Row. 240 pp.
(1963 - Swedish edition, Wahlstrom and Wildstrand, Stockholm)
(1963 - English edition, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London)
(1964 - Paperback edition, Harper Torchbook)
(1964 - Italian edition, Mondadori, Milano)
1969 - Second edition
1970 - Third edition
(1964 - Danish edition, Steen Hasselbalchs Forlag)
(1965 - English edition, Methuen, London)
(1965 - Portuguese edition, Zahar Editores, Rio de Janeiro)
(1965 - German edition, Econ-Verlag, Dusseldorf)
(1965 - Arabic edition, Franklin Book Program, Cairo)
(1971 - Norwegian edition, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, Oslo)
1965 Bonner, J. T. Size and Cycle. Princeton University Press. 219 pp.
1969 Bonner, J. T. The Scale of Nature. Harper and Row. 171 pp.
(1970 - Paperback edition, Pegasus Books)
(1971 - English edition, World's Work)
1974 Bonner, J. T. On Development: The Biology of Form. Harvard University Press. 282 pp.
(1977 - Paperback edition, Harvard University Press)
1980 Bonner, J. T. The Evolution of Culture in Animals. Princeton University Press. 225 pp.
(1982 - Dutch edition, Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht)
(1982 - Japanese edition, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo)
(1982 - Spanish edition, Alianza Editorial, Madrid)
(1983 - Paperback edition, Princeton University Press)
(1983 - German edition, Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin)
(1983 - Portuguese edition, Zahar Editores, Rio de Janeiro)
(1983 - Italian edition, Editore Boringhieri, Torino)
(1989 - Princeton Science Library edition, Princeton University Press)
1983 McMahon, T. A. and J. T. Bonner. On Size and Life. Scientific American Books, W. H. Freeman, New York. 255 pp.
(1985 - German edition, Sectrum der Wissenshaft, Heidelberg)
(1986 - Spanish edition, Prensa Cientifica, Barcelona)
(1987 - Dutch edition, Natuur en Techniek, Maastrich)
(1990 - Italian edition, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna)
1988 Bonner, J. T. The Evolution of Complexity. Princeton University Press. 260 pp.
1996 Bonner, J. T. Sixty Years of Biology: Essays on Evolution and Development. Princeton University Press. 143 pp.
1998 Bonner, J. T. Researches on Cellular Slime Moulds. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. 406 pp.
1999 Bonner, J. T. Life Cycles: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. Princeton U Press. 209 pp.
(1995 - Spanish edition, Alianza Editorial, Madrid)
(1995 - German edition. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden)
2000 Bonner, J. T. First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development. Princeton University Press. 146 pp.
2002 Bonner, J. T. Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science Harvard University Press. 215 pp.
Books Edited
1961 Bonner, J. T. (ed.) Abridged edition of D'Arcy Thompson's Growth and Form. Cambridge University Press. 360 pp.
(1969 - Italian edition, Boringhieri, Torino)
(1973 - German edition, Birkhauser Verlag, Basel and Stuttgart)
(1994 - French edition, Editions de Seuil, Paris)
(1999 - Greek edition )
1982 Bonner, J. T. (ed.) Evolution and Development. A Dahlem Conference, Springer Verlag. 356 pp.
Other Subjects and Popular Essays
1948 Bonner, J. T. A study of the temperature and humidity requirements of Aspergillus niger. Mycologia 40: 728-738.
1948 Bonner, J. T. Evolution before your eyes. Science Digest (May): 79-82.
1949 Bonner, J. T. The social amoebae. Scientific American 180 (June): 44-47.
1950 Bonner, J. T. Volvox: A colony of cells. Scientific American 182 (May): 52-55.
1951 Bonner, J. T. The horn of the unicorn. Scientific American 184 (March): 42-43.
1952 Bonner, J. T. D'Arcy Thompson. Scientific American 187 (August): 60-66.
1954 Bonner, J. T. On understanding biology. American Biology Teacher 16 (April): 86-89.
1954 Bonner, J. T. The development of cirri and bristles during binary fission in the ciliate Euplotes eurystomus. J. Morph. 95: 95-108.
1955 Bonner, J. T. A note concerning the distribution of polysaccharides in the early development of the hydromedusan Phialidium gregarium. Biol. Bull. 108: 18-20.
1956 Bonner, J. T. The growth of mushrooms. Scientific American 194 (May): 97-106.
1956 Bonner, J. T. Science in Paris in the Spring. American Scholar 25: 297-305.
(1956: Reprinted in News Bulletin, Inst. of International Education 32: 18-23).
1956 Bonner, J. T., K. K. Kane and R. H. Levey. Studies on the mechanics of growth in the common mushroom, Agaricus campestris. Mycologia 45: 13-19.
1956 Bonner, J. T. and M. Eden. The form of the frequency distribution curve of cell and nuclear sizes. Exper. Cell Res. 11: 265-269.
1957 Bonner, J. T., A. A. Hoffman, W. T. Morioka, and A. D. Chiquoine. The distribution of polysaccharides and basophilic substances during the development of the mushroom Coprinus. Biol. Bull. 112: 1-6.
1958 Bonner, J. T. The relation of spore formation to recombination. Amer. Nat. 92: 193-200.
1958 Bonner, J. T. Biology and chemistry. J. Chemical Education 35: 218-220.
1959 Bonner, J. T. Differentiation in social amoebae. Scientific American 201 (June): 152-162.
(1968 - Reprinted in 39 steps in Biology, G. Hardin, ed. W. H. Freeman.)
(1974 - Reprinted in Cellular and Organismal Biology, D. Kennedy, ed. W. H. Freeman.)
1960 Bonner, J. T. The unsolved problem of development. American Scientist 48: 514-527.
1960 Bonner, J. T. The sociable amoebae. University 4 (Spring): 20-24.
(1967 - Reprinted in Readings in Biological Science, 2nd ed., I. W. Knobloch, ed., Appleton Century Crofts).
1962 Bonner, J. T. A biologist looks at unnatural selection. Princeton Alumni Weekly 63 (November): 6-8.
(1962 - Reprinted in National Observer, Toledo Blade, Minneapolis Morning Star, Drexel Triangle, Phillips Exeter Bulletin).
1963 Bonner, J. T. How slime molds communicate. Scientific American 209 (August): 84-93.
1963 Bonner, J. T. Analogies in biology. Synthese 15: 275-279.
1965 Bonner, J. T. Morphogenetic movements in plants. Chapter in Handb. d. Pflanzenphysiologie, Vol. XV/1 Springer. A. Lang, ed., pp. 492-503.
1968 Bonner, J. T. Size change in development and evolution. J. Paleontology 42: (part II of II) 1-15.
1969 Bonner, J. T. The size of life. Natural History 78 (January): 40-45.
1969 Bonner, J. T. Hormones in social amoebae and mammals. Scientific American 220 (June): 76-91.
1970 Bonner, J. T. The chemical ecology of cells in the soil. In Chemical Ecology. E. Sondheimer and J. B. Simeone, eds., Academic Press. pp. 1-19.
1970 Leahy, D. R., E. R. McLean, Jr. and J. T. Bonner. Evidence for cyclic-3' ,5'-adenosine monophosphate as a chemotactic agent for polymorpho nuclear leukocytes. Blood 36: 52-54.
1971 Bonner, J. T. Morphogenetic movement in plants. In Topics in the Study of Life. A. Kramer, ed. pp. 176-188.
1971 Bonner, J. T. The direction of developmental biology. Current Topics in Development Biology 6: XV-XX.
1973 Bonner, J. T. Development in lower organisms. Symposium Soc. Microbiol. 23: 1-7.
1975 Bonner, J. T. Reproduction. Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, Vol. 15. pp. 676-679.
1975 Bonner, J. T. Essay review of Cell patterning. Ciba Foundation Symposium. Cell 6: 111-119.
1975 Bonner, J. T. Evolution and Darwinism. Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 75, No. 23, 8 pp. insert, (May 6, 1975).
1975 Bonner, J. T. Essay review of Sociobiology, The New Synthesis, by E. O. Wilson. Scientific American 233 (October): 129-132.
1978 Bonner, J. T. The life cycle of cellular slime molds. Natural History 87 (December): 70-79.
1979 Bonner, J. T. Life. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 15: 200-201.
1979 Bonner, J. T. The biological basis of culture. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 132:219-221.
1981 Bonner, J. T. and R. M. May. An introduction to a facsimile edition of C. Darwin's Descent of Man. 1871 edition. Princeton University Press. pp. vii-xii.
1982 Bonner, J. T. and H. S. Horn. Selection for size shape and developmental timing. In Evolution and Development. J. T. Bonner, ed., Springer Verlag. pp. 259-276.
1982 Bonner, J. T. Introduction in Evolution and Development. J. T. Bonner, ed. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-16.
1983 Bonner, J. T. Adaptation. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 1: 128-131.
1983 Bonner, J. T. Development. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 7: 173-175.
1983 Bonner, J. T. Slime Molds. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 21: 25.
1983 Bonner, J. T. Sponges. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia 22: 282-283.
1983 Bonner, J. T. How behavior came to affect the evolution of body size. Scientia 118: 174-183.
1983 Bonner, J. T. Chemical signals of social amoebae. Scientific American (March): 106-112.
1984 Bonner, J. T. and W. J. Bell, Jr. "What is money for?": an interview with Edwin Grant Conklin, 1952. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 128: 79-84.
1984 Bonner, J. T. The evolution of chemical signal-receptor systems (from slime molds to man). Oxford Surveys in Evol. Biol. l: 1-15.
1984 Bonner, J. T. Essay review of various undergraduate texts. Nature 308: 128.
1984 Bonner, J. T. Essay review of Scaling: Why is animal size so important by K. Schmidt-Nielsen and Size, Function and Life History by W. A. Calder III. Nature 312: 475-476.
1986 Bonner, J. T. Culture in animals. In The Collins Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. P. J. B. Slater, ed. Collins, London. pp. 138-141.
1987 Bonner, J. T. The next big problem in development biology. Amer. Zool. 27: 715-725.
1989 Bonner, J. T. The evolution of morphogens. In Cell to Cell Signalling: From Experiments To Theoretical Models, A. Goldbeter, ed. Academic Press: pp. 123-132.
1989 Bonner, J. T. Forward in The Appreciation of Birds by Louis J. Halle. Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore.
1990 Bonner, J. T. Cultural Evolution: a biologist's view. J. Ideas 1:24-34.
1992 Bonner, J. T. Evolution and the rest of biology. In Molds, Molecules and Metazoa, P.R.Grant and H.S.Horn, eds. Princeton University Press, pp.3-15.
1992 Bonner, J. T. The fate of a cell is a function of its position and vice-versa. J. Biosci. 17: 95- 114.
1993 Bonner, J. T. Dividing the labour in cells and societies. Current Science 64: 459-466.
1993 Bonner, J. T. Evoluzione culturale. Enciclopedia Italiana, pp.717-728.
1994 Bonner, J. T. Differentiation in cellular, social and family systems. Family Systems 1: 20-32.
1994 Bonner, J. T. From Darwin to DNA. Times Literary Supplement (14 January): 13-14.
1994 - Reprinted in Current Science 66: 793-797 in the original version, "My first sixty years-The spread of biology down to the level of the gene".)
1996 Bonner, J. T. Edwin Grant Conklin. In Luminaries, P. H. Marks, ed. Association of Graduate Alumni. Princeton, pp. 51-58.
1996 Bonner, J. T. How somatic variation leads to differentiation: from cells to humans. Family Systems 3: 101-108.
1998 Bonner, J. T. The origins of multicellularity. Integrative Biology 1: 27-36.
1998 Bonner, J. T. Essay review of Cells, Embryos, and Evolution: Toward a Cellular and Developmental Understanding of Phenotypic Variation and Evolutionary Adaptability, by J. Gerhart and M. Kirschner. Integrative Biology 1: 73-75.
1999 Bonner, J. T. An extract from "Memoirs for Family and Friends" From, "Perspectives" in Genetics, 150: 519-521.
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1999 Bonner, J. T. Time from the point of view of a slime mold. Tricycle 34 (Winter): 64-65.
1999 Bonner, J. T. Forward. In On Growth and Form: Spatio-temporal Pattern Formation in Biology, M. J. A. Chaplain, G. D. Singh and J. C. McLachlan, eds. John Wiley & Son.
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1999 Bonner, J. T. A future for soil ecology. Boll. Soc. Hist. Nat. Belears, 42: 11-13.
2000 Bonner, J. T. and H. S. Horn. Allometry and natural selection. In Scaling in Biology, J. H. Brown and G. B. West, eds. Oxford University Press. pp: 25-35.
2001 Cox, E. C. and J. T. Bonner. The advantages of togetherness. Science, 292: 448-449.