36 THE CONTROL OF NUCLEAR ACTIVITY 



1967 



Editor: L. Goldstein Prentice-Hall, Inc. 



512 pp.. 148 figs.. 35 tbs. Englewood Cliffs. N.J. 



Contributors: Bell (Cambridge. Mass.). Clever (Lafayette. Ind.), Dutton (La Jolla, Calif.), 

 Finger (Haverford, Pa.). Goldstein (Philadelphia. Pa.), Hennen (Bloomington, Ind.), Hotta 

 (La Jolla, Calif.), Infante (Philadelphia, Pa.). Jakob (Gif-sur-Yvette), Judin (Leningrad), 

 Maurer (Wiirzburg), Merrill (Cambridge, Mass.), Mishell (La Jolla, Calif.), Mounolou 

 (Gif-sur-Yvette), Nemer (Philadelphia, Pa.). Prescott (Boulder, Colo.). Sadler (Denver, Colo.), 

 Schultze (Wiirzburg), Slonimski (Gif-sur-Yvette), Stem (La Jolla, Calif.), Stevens (Denver, 

 Colo.), Warner (New York. N.Y.) 



This volume embodies the papers read at a symposium held under the 

 auspices of the Society of General Physiologists in Woods Hole, Mass. in 

 September 1966. Of the 22 contributors the majority came from the U.S.A. 

 Three contributors came from France, two from Germany, and one from the 

 U.S.S.R. 



In the interest of rapid publication the book was produced in photo-offset 

 print (machine type). The discussions held at the symposium are not recorded. 



The 15 papers are grouped in four sections, entitled respectively: "Chromo- 

 some and cell reproduction"; "Transcription of genetic material"; "The ex- 

 change of material between nucleus and cytoplasm"; and "The control of gene 

 expression". The organisms studied range from bacteria, protozoans and plants 

 to mammals. 



Restricting ourselves to papers of immediate interest to developmental biol- 

 ogists, we may mention a paper on early control of gene expression in sea 

 urchins (Nemer and Infante), a paper on m-RNA in the developing feather 

 (Bell and Merrill), one on control of chromosomal puffing in dipterans 

 (Clever), and one on hybrid nuclear transplantation in frogs (Hennen). The 

 paper by Dutton and Mishell on proliferation and differentiation in the immune 

 response may also be of interest to developmental biologists. 



The book is illustrated with many graphs, diagrams and photographs, in- 

 cluding electron micrographs. The quality of the photographs is reasonably 

 good, considering the technique of reproduction. The book is concluded by a 

 subject index. 



37 MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS OF 

 CYTODIFFERENTIATION 

 1967 

 Editors: E. Hagen, W. Wechsler S. Karger 



and P. Zilliken Basel - New York 



Experimental Biology and Medicine, Price: $ 8.40 



a Series of Interdisciplinary Topics, 

 Vol. I 

 280 pp., 120 figs.. 13 tbs. 



Contributors: Ball (Seattle, Wash.), Bessis (Le KremJin-Bicetre, France), Bradshaw (Seattle, 

 Wash.), Burnett (Cleveland, Ohio). Clark (Seattle, Wash.), Goldwasser (Chicago), Gross 

 (Cambridge, Mass.), Hess (Tubingen), Koningsberger (Utrecht), Lash (Philadelphia), Levi- 

 Montalcini (St. Louis, Mo.), Marzullo (Philadelphia), Monroy (Palermo), Nieuwkoop 

 (Utrecht), Runnstrom (Stockholm), Rutter (Seattle, Wash.), Sanders (Seattle, Wash.), 

 Scherrer (Paris), Spector (London), Strudel (Nogent sur Marne), Tiedemann (Berlin). 

 Toivonen (Helsinki), Weber (Bern), Wechsler (Cologne), Yamada (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Zil- 

 liken (Marburg) 



This is the first volume of a new series to be published with the aim of 

 focussing attention on subjects of outstanding interest in the interrelated fields 

 of biology and medicine, and of promoting this branch of science on an inter- 

 disciplinary basis. 



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