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The first chapter containing much new material is that on DNA replication
(ch.9). From ch.l4 onwards this becomes the rule. There are two new chapters:
The essence of being eucaryotic (42 pp.) and The control of cell proliferation
(44 pp., but incorporating material from original earlier chapters).
The chapter on cancer has been completely reshuffled and greatly extended.
The advances in molecular embryology (ch,17) are well covered. Only the very
latest developments such as teratocarcinoma work and the H-Y antigens are
missing.
The lay-out of the book has been modernised, there are 185 more figures
than in the previous edition, and all the figures have been re-styled.
Monographs
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W.BEERMANN, ed. 1977. BIOCHEMICAL DIFFERENTIATION IN INSECT GLANDS
Springer, Berlin, etc. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol.8.
XII, 215 pp., 110 figs., 24 tabs., combined subject and taxonomic indexes.
DM 78.00, $ 34.40
The four contributions in this book are exhaustive reviews of recent biochemical
work centered on different, well-characterised insect gland systems:
the silk gland of Bombyx (Suzuki, 45 pp.); the follicular epithelium
and its products (particularly the egg shell) in various insects (Kafatos
and many other authors, over 100 pp.); the salivary gland of Cht-ronomus
(Grossbach, 50 pp.); and the salivary gland of Aor-iootopus (Baudisch, 16 pp.)
All chapters are well organised but their format and scope is quite different.
The second is almost a monograph in itself and sketches in a lot of
background of a general nature. It also has sections on the comparative
morphology and chemistry of insect chorions, on the chemical morphogenesis
of the silkmoth chorion, and on chorion mutants in Bombyx. Apart from silkmoths
Dvosoph-ila is considered in a separate section of some ten pages.
The first three chapters are up to date until 197 5/76, the last until 1974.
The book is very well illustrated.
Dissertations
93.
W.MINUTH. 1977. UNTERSUCHUNG ZUR PROTEINBIOSYNTHESE IN INDUZIERTEM UND NICHT
INDUZIERTEM GASTRULAEKTODERM VON TRITURUS ALPESTRIS
Ph.D. thesis, Cologne. 85 pp., 26 figs, (mimeographed)
Incubation of competent gastrula ectoderm with radioactive amino acids and
"vegetalising factor" (Tiedemann) ; study of protein synthesis in cytoplasmic
and nuclear fractions by means of SDS-acrylamid gel electrophoresis; qualitative
changes in protein patterns first in cytoplasm, then in nucleus;
further quantitative and qualitative changes.
94.
M.P.A.SCHALEKAMP-KUYKEN. 1977. HAEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS DURING EMBRYONIC
DEVELOPMENT
M.D. thesis, Rotterdam. 110 pp., 29 figs., 5 tabs.
Three published papers (1972-'76) on chick and mouse embryo, with 22-page
illustrated English introduction and 3-page English summary
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