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-The selection of areas to be treated is on the whole admirable. In most
areas the treatment is surprisingly up to date, though in some one misses
the most recent developments. Cases in point are the modern work on mammalian
and insect embryogenesis , the work on developmental compartments in
insects, and the older and recent findings on the origin of primordial germ
cells in urodeles.
The author evidently had his aims firmly in mind all the time and he
writes in an easy style which never becomes boring. Here and there the language
tends to be imprecise, although there are very few major inaccuracies.
The illustrations are mostly simple but very effective line drawings. A
few of the captions lack in clarity. The literature lists are excellent,
but some system of reference to them in the text is sorely missed. Why not
use small superscript numerals? The book is reasonably well printed but has
many printing errors and a weak binding.
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M.SUSSiyiAN. 1978. MOLEKULARBIOLOGIE UND ENTWICKLUNG, translated from the
English by U.Ponta
Parey, Berlin, etc. Pareys Studientexte No. 16. 264 pp., 143 figs., 9 tabs.,
subject index. DM 29.00 (paper)
This translation is based on the first edition (1973) of Sussraan's wellreceived
text (see review in Gen. Embryol. Inf. Serv. 16, 1, 1975). The German
title does not adequately reflect the book's nature, because it covers
cellular aspects as well as the molecular ones.
The translation reads very well but is by no means always entirely correct,
It is doubtful whether the translator knew the field. Rather frequently,
moreover, words or phrases from the original have mysteriously disappeared,
altering the sense. The illustrations are faithfully reproduced, though
without the original use of colour. The original brief reading lists are reproduced
with printing errors and all.
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B.P.TOKIN. 1977. GENERAL EMBRYOLOGY. 3rd edit, (in Russian)
Vysshaya Shkola, Moscow. 509 pp., 177 figs., 9 tabs., author and subject indexes.
R 1.55
Only slight changes from the 2nd edition (1970); new sections on cell
death and cell cycle, on molecular embryology, and on dedif f erentiation and
cell lineage in regeneration; better quality paper and figures.
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L.WOLPERT. 1977. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATTERN AND FORM IN ANIMALS. 2nd edit.
Carolina Biology Supply Comp. , Burlington. Carolina Biology Readers no. 51.
16 pp. , 21 figs
The text of this reader (formerly Oxford Biology Reader no. 51) has been
rewritten and some material deleted to accommodate recent findings, such
as localisation in insect eggs, insect limb regeneration, and compartments
in Drosophila. A number of figures have been deleted and good new ones
added
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