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text, there are good lists of further reading leading on to more specialised
publications
The book is well produced and illustrated.
Monographs
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E. S.E.HAFEZ, ed. 1975. SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC ATLAS OF MA^4MALIAN
REPRODUCTION
Thieme, Stuttgart; Igaku Shoin, Tokyo. X,429 pp., 358 figs., subject index.
DM 240.00
This superb atlas is in the form of more than 30 brief chapters by an international
band of 55 authors, grouped into three main sections: Male reproduction.
Female reproductive organs, and Eggs and pregnancy. Many chapters
have the format of a brief publication and several report previously
unpublished data. The third section has four chapters on the cumulus oophorus
and fertilisation, four on cleavage and blastocyst development, and one
each on other subjects such as the placenta and the amniotic membrane. Normal
and pathological processes receive equal consideration. The species
studied varies with the subject.
Most of the more than 350 illustrations are of course SEM pictures, usually
two to six on a page, of very good quality and at a wide range of magnifications.
These are supplemented occasionally with good drawings in the
text and some TEM pictures and photomicrographs. The book is well produced
on high-quality glossy paper.
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W.KUNZ and U.SCHAFER. 1978. OOGENESE UND SPERMATOGENESE
Fischer, Jena. Bausteine der modernen Physiologie, 98 pp., 11 figs., 10 tabs.
subject index. M 25.00 (paper)
This monograph in fact consists of two lengthy and well-organised reviews,
one of 52 pages on oogenesis by the first, and one of 25 pages on spermatogenesis
by the second author. The first part is largely restricted to the
growth phase of the oocyte, and in both parts the emphasis is very much on
molecular aspects, to the virtual exclusion of ultrastructural morphology.
The subject matter is largely restricted to findings in amphibians and sea
urchins in part one, and in Drosophila and mammals in part two. Part one has
sections on the role of maternal hRNA and rRNA in the embryo, and on the amphibian
oocyte as a system for studying nuclear and cellular differentiation.
Each of the two parts has its own selective bibliography; both run into
early 1976. The volume has good diagrams and a number of electron micrographs
showing lampbrush chromosomes, extra-chromosomal DNA and multiple nucleoli.
D-issertations
37.
B.GRIFFOND. 1977. RECHERCHES CYTOLOGIQUES ET EXPERIMENTALES SUR LA DIFFE-
RENCIATION SEXUELLE ET LA GAMETOGENESE DE LA PALUDINE Viviparus viviparus L.
(Mollusque Gasteropode Prosobranche)
Ph.D. thesis, Besan^on. 156 pp., 58 pis.
Normal histology and electron microscopy; culture of gonads in vitro with
or without nervous tissue; numerous light and electron micrographs.
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