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Symposium reports
102.
R.HILLMAN and T. R. F.WRIGHT, organisers. 1977. GENE REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
IN DROSOPHILA
Amer. Soc. of Zoologists, Thousand Oaks, Calif. Amer . Zool . 17, 3. 203 pp.,
108 figs., 26 tabs. $ 7.00 (paper)
Contributors: Bryant, Fristrom, Garcia-Bellido, Hillman, Kambysellis,
Kauffman, Lucchesi, Mahowald, Mandaron, Rizki, Schubiger , Seecof, Shearn,
Spear, Wright
This symposium reflects the tremendous advances made in Drosophila developmental
genetics in the last decade. It should be required reading particularly
for graduate students entering the field. All papers contain a judicious
blend of review material, recent results, and occasional pointers to the future.
The symposium was held in June 1976. Those who know the field will realize
from the list of contributors above that virtually all frontier areas
are represented.
Almost all contributions are well illustrated.
Collections of papers
103.
S.V.EMELYANOV, ed. 1977. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RATE OF ANIMAL INDIVIDUAL
DEVELOPMENT (in Russian)
Izd. Nauka, Moscow. 341 pp., 77 figs., 50 tabs. R.2.38 (paper)
Collection of papers with introduction by P.K.Anokhin on theory of functional
systems in theoretical biology (10 pp.); heterochrony in organogenesis
and histogenesis (10 papers); systemogenesis and the physiological mechanism
of heterochrony (3); particularities in the rate of individual development
in the intact animal (11); differences in the rate of development in
individuals of one population (3); mostly vertebrates; photomicrographs and
line drawings.
DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY (incl. endocrinology, immunology, behaviour, etc.)
(see also 33,54,57,59,81,83,96)
Treatises
104.
U. STAVE, ed. 1978. PERINATAL PHYSIOLOGY
Plenum, New York, etc. XXIV, 851 pp., 297 figs., 149 tabs., subject index.
$ 71.40, £ 37.50
This "source book" by an international team of authors, which first appeared
in 1970 under the title Physiology of the perinatal period, is so
well known that the second edition hardly needs recommendation. The basic
organisation has remained the same but the book has been updated and the
contents somewhat rearranged. There are new chapters on the placenta, postnatal
growth, the skeleton, blood coagulation factors, nutrition of the
newborn, trace elements, and the auditory response.
The book is now produced in one volume, and less luxuriously, so that the
price could be kept at a reasonable level.
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