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 develop- 

 mental genetics in the last decade. It should be required reading particular- 

 ly for graduate students entering the field. All papers contain a judicious 

 blend of review material, recent results, and occasional pointers to the fu- 

 ture. The symposium was held in June 1976. Those who know the field will re- 

 alize 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 func- 

 tional systems in theoretical biology (10 pp.); heterochrony in organogene- 

 sis and histogenesis (10 papers); systemogenesis and the physiological mech- 

 anism of heterochrony (3); particularities in the rate of individual devel- 

 opment 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 ap- 

 peared 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, post- 

 natal 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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