Biology, life sciences

Most embryologists will say after Thoma, that bloodvessels follow the pattern set by organs and have no influence on organs in themselves.

At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, the prob- lems of immunity in lower vertebrates and the influence of environmental temperature attracted attention for the first time (ERNST, 1890; WIDAL and SICARD, 1897; METCHNIKOFF, 1901).

The papers collected in this book were given and discussed at the symposium on "e;Soil water physics and technology"e;, which was held in Rehovot, Israel, from August 19th-September 4th, 1971.

No other disjunct pieces of land present such striking similarities as the widely sepa- 1 rated regions with a mediterranean type of climate, that is, the territories fringing the Mediterranean Sea, California, Central Chile and the southernmost strips of South Mrica and Australia.

Throughout the world natural forest ecosystems have been, and are being massively disrupted or destroyed.

It is now generally accepted for a variety of reasons - morphological as well as physiologica- that the visual systems of arthropods provide a suitable model for the study of information proces- sing in neuronal networks.

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the University of Kiel, Germany, from 31 March to 6 April, 1971.

Influenza continues to be one of the major epidemic diseases of man and is, in fact, his only remaining pandemic disease (BEVERIDGE, 1969).

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 25th Mosbach Colloquium, the general theme of which is the Biochemistry of Sensory Functions.

In spite of ingenious experiments, imaginative theories, and unshakable faith in supreme forces, there is no way to know how life began.

Sea urchin eggs are objects of wonder for the student who sees them for the first time under the microscope.

This section will consider the structure and function of muscle receptors, as well as the central nervous system mechanisms with which they are concerned.

The originality of this volume is to reveal to the reader the fascination of some unfamiliar sensory organs that are sometimes ignored and often misunderstood.

In 1971 I published a review of ichnology other concentrating only on traces made (Houston AAPG: SEPM Trace Fossil Field by a certain group of organisms, regardless Trip Guidebook) that I thought could be of their setting.

Prominent progress in molecular biology was only made when it became possible to separate functionally distinct molecules by taking advantage of their biophysical properties.

Pollen transmits the male genetic material in sexual reproduction of all higher plants.

Plans for an International Symposium on the Early Life History of Fish were first discussed in 1967 at the F.

Although this is basically a translation of the second German edition published in 1970, more recent experimental findings have, in several instances, been incorporated into the text.

This volume was originally intended to be an English translation of the book MetllOden in der medizinischen Cytogenetik, published in 1970.

This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor WERNER BRAUN, one of the most devoted and active members of the Editorial Board of the Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, who passed away, after suffering a heart attack, in November 1972.

General aspects of nucleic acid uptake by mammalian cells have been the subject of several reviews during the last few years (PAGANO, 1970; BHARGAVA and SHANMUGAM, 1971; DUBES, 1971; RYSER, 1967).

Since the publication of the first Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes in 1967 the continuous compilation of mammalian karyotypes has become a useful instrument in cytologic and taxonomic studies.

This volume represents the proceedings of the 24th Mos- bach Colloquium on "e;Regulation of Transcription and Trans- lation in Eukaryotes"e; which was held April 26-28, 1973, in Mosbach, Germany, under the auspices of the Gesellschaft fiir Biologische Chemie.

This book is based on the Symposium "e;Metabolic Regulation and Functional Activity in the Central Nervous System"e; which was held on September 16 and 17, 1972, at Saint- Vincent (Aosta)/Italy, and was sponsored by the Accademia di Medicina di Torino with the scientific cooperation of the Istituto di Farmacologia, Universita di Torino, and the Pharmakologisches Institut der Freien Universitat Berlin.

The study of thermoregulation in endotherms has contributed much to the emergence of the concept of control theory in biology.

Four decades ago, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus was discovered, at about the same time and independently, in 3 different localities in the U.

The Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences is designed to ftll a long-felt need for advanced educational and technological books in the agricultural sciences.

When Richard Goldschmidt' coined the term "e;intersexuality"e; in 1915, he intended it to apply to normally dioecious species which exhibit some kind of mixture between male and female characters.

When Budge in the eighth decade of the nineteenth centlll'Y, started his investigations into the origin and development of the lymphatic system, he probably did not expect that these would be the starting-point for disputes that would continue well into our time.

The translation of Blood Smears Reinterpreted was begun when the French original was still undergoing revisions.

The processes involved in herpesvirus replication, latency, and oncogenic transformation, have, in general, been rather poorly defined.