William Lawrence Tower

William Lawrence Tower (born 1872, date of death unknown) was an American zologist, born at Halifax, Mass. He was educated at the Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard), the Harvard Graduate School, and the University of Chicago (B. S., 1902), where he taught thereafter, becoming associate professor in 1911. He did important experimental work in heredity, investigating especially the laws of heredity in beetles and publishing "An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa" (1906). This study is probably the first (albeit possibly discredited) of mutation in animals [Sokoloff, A. (1966) The Genetics of Tribolium and Related Species. Academic Press, New York.] [ [http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/158/2/695#R10 Hawthorne, David J. (2001) AFLP-Based Genetic Linkage Map of the Colorado Potato Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata: Sex Chromosomes and a Pyrethroid-Resistance Candidate Gene. Genetics 158: 695-700] ] . He published also "The Development of the Colors and Color Patterns of Coleoptera" (1903) and, with Coulter, Castle, Davenport and East, an essay on "Heredity and Eugenics" (1912).

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