nuil RNA synthesis in oocytes and embryos (6); gamete and embryo chromatin (3). First 

 authors: Chamberlain, Sconzo, Kronenberg, Brandhorst, Aronson, Emerson, Hill, Wilt, 

 Ozaki. PubUcation dates: 1971, l l >72. 



Ill Characteristics of protein synthesis in early embryogenesis (6 papers); tubulin 

 s\ nihesis in the early embryo (2); histones and histone genes in embryos (3); transfer and 

 SS RNA (2); technical innovations (3 papers on purification and fractionation of oocytes, 

 and removal of vitelline membrane). First authors: Terman, Berg, Infante, RuZdijic, 

 Humphreys, Raff, Meeker, Ord, Benttinen, Kedes, O'Melia, Molinaro, Giudice, Epel. 

 Publication dates: 1970-1972. 



DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS, EVOLUTION (see also 2,3,13,16,48,59,62,69,70,74) 

 Monographs 



lb. 



J.B.GURDON. 1974. THE CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION IN ANIMAL DEVEL- 

 OPMENT 



Clarendon Press - Oxford Univ. Press, London, etc. X.160 pp., 29 figs., 12 tabs., subject 

 index. £ 3.50 (cloth), £ 1.25 (paper) 



Contents: 1. Nuclear transplantation and somatic cell genes; 2. Translational control 

 and message-injection into living cells; 3. Gene transcription and the initiation of cell 

 differentiation; 4. General conclusions 



This book is based on a series of lectures given in 1971, but the lectures have been 

 brought up to date and expanded. The treatment is judiciously selective and for that very 

 reason the book seems ideal as a teaching aid and as a refresher for biologists not 

 themselves working in this field. It certainly conveys the excitement of an author who is 

 actively involved in the most recent advances. Understandably, much emphasis is placed 

 on amphibian experiments, but other systems are adduced in appropriate places. 



This reviewer is inclined to regret that although the stability of determination in 

 imaginal discs is mentioned, transdetermination is not discussed, and only very cursory 

 attention is paid to the role of cell division in cellular differentiation. 



A useful appendix provides technical and other additional information on the cloning 

 of animals, the genetic analysis of somatic cells, and micro-injection experiments with 

 Xenopus eggs and oocytes. The book is well produced and adequately illustrated. 



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



(see also 2,14,29,5 1,55,56) 



Treatises 



77. 



G.GOTTLIEB, ed. 1973-1974. STUDIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIOR 



AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 



Academic Press, New York, etc. 



Vol. 1 (1973) Behavioral embryology. XX, 369 pp., 124 figs., 14 tabs., author and subject 



indexes. $ 22.50 



Vol. 2 (1974) Aspects of neurogenesis. XVI, 287 pp., 74 figs., 2 tabs., author and subject 



indexes. $ 18.50, £9,25 



This new multi-author serial publication grew from the realization that the existing 

 books on neurobehavioural development treat prenatal ontogeny either highly selectively 

 or rather superficially. The first two (companion) volumes are best characterized by a 

 quotation from the preface to vol. 1: 



IThey] are meant to present a fairly basic orientation to some of the more persistent 

 and most important "philosophical", theoretical, and empirical problems of behavioral 



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