107. 



W. NEUBRAND. 1975. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR INDUKTION UND REGULATION 



DER GLUCONEOGENESE BEI XENOPUS LAEVIS DAUDIN DURCH CORTICOSTE- 



ROIDE UND ACTH 



Ph.D. thesis, Karlsruhe. 79 pp., 19 figs., 2 tabs, (mimeographed) 



Carbohydrate metabolism and induction of gluconeogenesis by increasing hormone or 

 substrate levels in three phases: prometamorphosis, metamorphic climax, and juvenile. 



Symposium reports 



108. 



G. BERNARDI and F. GROS, eds. 1975. ORGANIZATION AND EXPRESSION OF 

 THE EUKARYOTIC GENOME. BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS OF DIFFERENTIA- 

 TION IN PROKARYOTES AND EUKARYOTES 



North-Holland, Amsterdam; American Elsevier, New York etc. Proc. of the Tenth FEBS 

 Meeting, vol. 38. VI, 342 pp., 104 figs., 5 pis., 37 tabs., subject index. $ 29.75, Dfl. 77.00 



This meeting was held in Paris in July 1975. Of the 24 contributions seven are by 

 American groups. The papers are short to medium-length research reports or reviews of 

 recent work. 



It is particularly the second part of the book (see second half of the title) that is of 

 interest to our readers. From among its 1 1 contributions we single out the following as 

 particularly interesting: a review by Moscona et al. on embryonic cell recognition, papers 

 by Gerisch et al. and Pereira da Silva et al. on aggregation mutants and the acquisition of 

 aggregation competence in Dictyostelium, a paper by Paul et al. on the control of globin 

 synthesis in erythroleukaemic cells, and papers by Yaffe et al. and Buckingham et al. 

 discussing evidence for posttranscriptional control in myogenesis. Of the remaining papers 

 three deal with prokaryotes, one with cell "reconstruction" and one with the organisation 

 of immunoglobuUn genes. 



The book is produced in offset print and adequately illustrated. The index is rather 

 short. 



109. 



C. L. MARKERT, ed. 1975. ISOZYMES. III. Developmental biology 



Academic Press, New York, etc. XXII, 1034 pp., 407 figs., 138 tabs., combined author, 



taxonomic, and subject index. $ 37.50, £ 18.00 



This volume contains the papers read at part of an international conference held at 

 Yale University in April 1974. Among the contributors to this volume about one quarter 

 came from countries outside North America. The book reflects the enormous growth of 

 this relatively young area. Almost all papers are either research reports or reviews of 

 recent original work on a great variety of enzymes in many different organisms (both 

 animals and plants). 



Although many of the 61 papers transcend the boundaries of what is traditionally 

 called developmental biology, about half of them are of direct interest to developmental 

 biologists. 



The book is produced in good photo-offset and adequately illustrated. The index is 

 however far from adequate. 



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