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Symposiim reports
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A.BEAUMONT, organiser. 1976. COLLOQUE SUR LES METAMORPHOSES
Soc. Zool. de France, Paris. Bull. Soc . Zool. France 101, suppl.no. 5.
IV, 79 pp., 18 figs., 3 tabs.
Series of 12 brief papers in French on three aspects of metamorphosis in
invertebrates and amphibians: cell degenerarion, cell proliferation, and
hormone action; offset figures.
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M.KARKINEN-JAASKELAINEN, L.SAXEN and L.WEISS, eds. 1977. CELL INTERACTIONS
IN DIFFERENTIATION
Academic Press, London, etc. XVI, 415 pp., 155 figs., 31 uabs., subject index.
E 15.80, $ 30.75
Contributors: Bennett, Briggs, Burger, Cooke, Gerisch, Gilula, Graham,
Grossberg, Hunt, Kalthoff, Kieny, Lash, Lawrence, Le Douarin, McLaren,
Makela, Martin, Moscona, Nordling, Piccet, Saxen, Sengel, Slavkin, Tarin,
Thesleff, Toivonen, Vaheri, Weiss, Wolpert
Most of the papers in this symposium report are short to medium-length and
are best characterised as progress reports. The specialists will by now have
read the definitive publications anyhow, but the book seems well suited to
recommend to postgraduate students as collateral reading. The symposium was
held in Helsinki, Finland in August 1976 and brought together a representative
group of workers in areas that are in the forefront of the developmental
and cell biology of today.
The 24 main papers are arranged in five sections as follows: Early deter-
minative events in embryogenesis (4 papers) ; Positional information and
morphogenetic signals (4) ; Morphogenetic tissue interactions (7) ; Molecular
mechanisms of cell contact interactions (5) ; and Cell recognition (4) . Each
section is opened by a concise chairman's introduction clearly setting out
the main problems (these are by McLaren, Wolpert, Saxen, Weiss and Moscona)
The volume is adequately produced and illuscrated. (Personal remark by the
reviewer: in view of the discoveries by Nieuwkoop and co-workers and others
on mesoderm induction in the amphibian blastula, I feel it is about time to
drop the term "primary induction" and only to use "neural induction".)
83.
R.LAFONT, organiser. 1978. QUATRIEME SEMINAIRE SUR LA DIFFERENCIATION CELLU-
LAIRE CHEZ LES INSECTES
Ecole Normale Superieure, Lab. de Zool., Paris. Publ. du Lab. de Zool., Ecole
Norm. Super. No. 11. 101 pp., 3 figs., 1 tab.
Report of a meeting held in Paris in October 1975; reviews by Goyffon on
effects of ionising radiation in insects and by Delachambre on cuticle sclerotisation
and its hormonal control.
J. W. LASH and M.M. BURGER, eds. 1977. CELL AND TISSUE INTERACTIONS
Raven, New York. Soc. of General Physiologists Series, vol.32. XIV, 317 pp.,
138 figs., 20 tabs., subject index. $ 30.55
Contents: I. Interactions in general (Saxen, Le Douarin, Slavkin, Auerbach,
Abercrombie) ; II. Extracellular matrices in cell and tissue interactions
(Miller, Muir, Lash, Hay, Toole); III. The surface membrane in
recognition phenomena (Burger, Moscona, Lilien, Glaser) ; IV. The surface
membrane involved in migration, metastases, and hormone response (Roth,
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