Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Marian’s family for their help in writing this obituary, and in particular to Professor James Annett for allowing us to use details from the eulogy he wrote for Marian’s funeral. We are also grateful to Dr. Tabea Cornel for useful discussion and assistance.
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Notes
1 Marian’s writings do not always distinguish between right shift as a phenotype and right shift as a gene. Here we use RS− and RS+ to indicate the phenotype, and rs− and rs+ to indicate alleles, with genotypes rs−−, rs− + and rs ++.