differentiation, sexual development and origin of the germ line (7 papers). 

 The remaining sections deal with X-chromosome inactivation and repression 

 (7) , X-chromosome non-randomness (5) , and Mathematical and statistical anal- 

 yses of mosaic patterns (3) . 



The volume is well produced and adequately illustrated. 



42. 



R.SIEWING. 1979. 0NTCX5ENESE UND PHYLOGENESE ; Erlanger Symposium fiir Struk- 

 turanalyse und Evolutionsforschung. 3-6 Okt.1977 



Parey, Hamburg. Fortschr. Zool. Syst. und Evol. forsch. 1 . 193 pp., 63 figs., 

 5 tabs. DM 56.00 



This interesting volume is the outcome of a symposium held in Erlangen 

 (W.Germany) in October 1977. The original discussion papers by 13 German, 

 one English and one Danish author have been enriched with the results of 

 the discussions. The papers vary greatly in lenght and are in English (11) 

 or German (4), but all have summaries in the other language. 



The purpose of the symposium was to confront the thinking of morphologists 

 and developmental physiologists on a common evolutionary basis. The range of 

 subjects covered is extraordinarily broad, covering such subjects as 

 cleavage, cell lineage, mesoderm formation, induction and metamorphosis, 

 all in various animal forms. 



The volume is well printed and illustrated. 



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



(see also 22,25) 



Monogr'aphs 



43. 



H.PARVEZ AND S.PARVEZ, eds . 1980. BIOGENIC AMINES IN DEVELOPMENT 

 Elsevier/North-Holland Biomed. Press, Amsterdam, etc. XX, 735 pp., 144 figs., 

 66 tabs., subject index. Df 1.198.00, $ 96.50 



This collection of papers by an international group of specialists deals 

 with the biogenic amines in their function of neurotransmitters, not with 

 their role in processes such as cytoplasmic movement. The 28 chapters are 

 partly reviews and partly research reports, while some are mixtures of the 

 two. They deal primarily with fetal and postnatal mammals but several chap- 

 ters consider non-mammalian vertebrates as well. 



Chapters of potential interest to mammalian developmental physiologists 

 are found mainly in section I (Physiology of biogenic amine development, 

 9 chapters) . The other sections deal with endocrine factors and neurotrans- 

 mitter development (5 chs.), with environmental and genetic factors (5 chs.), 

 and with studies relevant to the development of behaviour (8 chs.). 



The book was produced direct from typescripts and is well illustrated. 



Symposium reports 



44. 



G.W.SISKIND, S.D.LITWIN and M.E.WEKSLER, eds. 1979. DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNO- 



BIOLOGY, Proceedings of the fifth Irwin Strasburger memorial seminar on 



immunology 



Grune & Stratton, New York, etc. X,260 pp., 39 figs., 29 tabs., $ 15.50, 



£ 10.05 



Contributors: Adler, Cudkowicz, D'Eustachio, Goidl, Hammer ling, Kincade, 

 Klinman, Mosier, Nordin, Sidman, Siskind, Vitetta, Weksler 



This ail-American symposium was held at Cornell University on March 6, 

 1978. Of the 13 papers the majority focus on the B-cell system. Further- 



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