Symposium reports 



89. 



G.M.MALACINSKI, organiser. 1978. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS OF THE MEXICAN 



AXOLOTL 



Amer. Soc. of Zoologists, Thousand Oaks, Calif. Amer. Zoologist vol.18, 2. 



182 pp., 100 figs., 15 tabs. $ 7.00 (paper) 



Contributors: Armstrong, Bagnara, Brun, Carroll, DeLanney, Epp, Etkin, 

 Frost, Humphrey, Ide, Justus, Kulikowski , Lemanski, Malacinski, Manasek, 

 Matsumoto, Model, Ortiz, E.C.Raff, R. A. Raff, Sinclair, Tompkins 



This report of a symposium held in Toronto in December 1977 is a must for 

 all those working on the axolotl , not just developmental geneticists. Some 

 35 mutant genes of the axolotl are now known, with phenotypes first recog- 

 nisable in various developmental phases from oogenesis to the adult. To this 

 reviewer's knowledge all these have been discovered in the U.S.A., and the 

 symposium competently reviews a substantial proportion of the recent work on 

 them carried out in North-America, as well as some other related work, at all 

 levels of biological organisation. 



Th^ volume is very well produced and illustrated. 



DEVELOPMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY (incl. endocrinology, inununology, behaviour, etc.), 



(see also 6,55,59,67,68,72,78,81) 



Textbooks 



90. 



M.DURCHON and P.JOLY. 1978. L'ENDOCRINOLOGIE DES INVERTEBRES 



Presses Universitaires de France, Paris. Le Biologiste. 238 pp., 93 figs. 



The reason why we briefly mention this little book is that, for the devel- 

 opmental biologist, it provides a useful survey of those developmental pro- 

 cesses in the main invertebrate classes, from the coelenterates to the tuni- 

 cates, that are under the control of hormones. Some of these processes are: 

 reproduction (including gametogenesis) , sexual differentiation, sexual matu- 

 ration, and regeneration. 



The treatment is didactically clear and up to date. The text is illustrated 

 with clear original line drawings and diagrams. No references are provided 

 and no authors' names are mentioned, except occasionally in the figure leg- 

 ends. The absence of an index is partly compensated for by the detailed table 

 of contents. 



Monographs 



91. 



R.J.GOSS. 1978. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF GROWTH 



Academic Press, New York, etc. XII, 441 pp., 179 figs., subject index. 



$ 29.50, £ 19.15 



Contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Renewal of the epidermis, 3. Connective tis- 

 sues, 4. Bone and cartilage, 5. Turnover of blood cells, 6. Vascular ex- 

 pansion, 7. Hypertension and heart growth, 8. Muscle: atrophy versus hyper- 

 trophy, 9. Adaptive plasticity of the nervous system, 10. Intraocular con- 

 trol of lens development, 11. Lactation and mammary growth, 12. Neural reg- 

 ulation of salivary glands, 13. The exocrine pancreas, 14. Liver regenera- 

 tion, 15. Functional demand in the digestive tract, 15. Compensatory pul- 

 monary hypertrophy, 17. The physiology of renal growth, 18. Pressure on 

 the bladder, 19. Nonreproductive endocrine glands, 20. Experimental regu- 



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