Monographs 



17. 



G.E.CANTWELL, A.J.NAPPI and J . G . STOFFOLANO , Jr. 1976. EMBRYONIC AND POST- 

 EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOUSE FLY {Musca domestica L.) 

 U.S.Dept. of Agriculture, Washington. Technical Bulletin No. 1519. 69 pp., 

 114 figs. 



Carefully timed description of embryonic development (15 and 30-min. inter- 

 vals) ; description of larval structure and development by organ system; imag- 

 inal discs very brief; photomicrographs of fair to good quality. 



Dissertations 

 18. 



J.M.VAN DER MEER. 1978. REGION SPECIFIC CELL DIFFERENTIATION DURING EARLY 

 INSECT DEVELOPMENT; experimental morphological aspects of embryonic pattern 

 formation in the coleopteran Callosobruahus maaulatus Fabr. 

 Ph.D. thesis, Nijmegen. VI, 185 pp., 40 figs., 19 tabs, (mimeographed) 



Very thorough study in the form of six pre-publication manuscripts; ex- 

 haustive inventory of larval cuticular segment markers; constriction of 

 eggs by Sander's "guillotine" at many different stages: permanent or tempo- 

 rary, complete or incomplete; analysis of incomplete or abnormal segment 

 patterns in larvae; double abdomens; longitudinally restricted and periodic 

 polarity reversals; formal models in terms of "lateral inhibition"; discus- 

 sions of morphogen transport; offset photomicrographs and line drawings. 



VERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT (general) (see also 15) 



Textbooks 



19. 



B.COLENBRANDER and J.C . HASSELAAR. 1977. EM3RY0L0GIE. 2nd edit, (in Dutch) 

 Vakgr. Funct. Morfol., Vet. Faculty, Utrecht. VI, 137 pp., numerous illustra- 

 tions 



Laboratory guide for veterinary students; comparative introduction; em- 

 bryology of amphibians, chick and pig; very good micrographs and line 

 drawings. 



20. 



E.S.SZEBENYI. 1977. ATLAS OF DEVELOPMENTAL EMBRYOLOGY 



Assoc. Univ. Presses, Cranbury, etc. 338 pp., numerous figures. $ 40.00, 



£ 20.00 



It is difficult to see how this atlas can gain a place alongside several 

 others already on the market, particularly at this exorbitant price. The pen- 

 and-ink drawings are rather crude and the reasons given for not using photo- 

 graphs are not convincing: in the few cases where a drawing is to be pre- 

 ferred (whole embryos) much better ones could have been provided. Little 

 care has been devoted to lay-out and production, particularly in the section 

 on early development. Finally, the title is a linguistic horror. 



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