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Metamorphosis

A Problem in Developmental Biology

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Lawrence I. Gilbert

    1. Department of Zoology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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  2. Earl Frieden

    1. Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Metamorphosis: An Overview

    1. Metamorphosis: An Overview

      • George Wald
      Pages 1-39

  3. Insects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. A Survey of Invertebrate Metamorphosis

      • K. C. Highnam
      Pages 43-73

    3. Cell Structure during Insect Metamorphosis

      • M. Locke
      Pages 75-103

    4. Hormonal Control of Insect Metamorphosis

      • Noelle A. Granger, Walter E. Bollenbacher
      Pages 105-137

    5. Chemistry, Metabolism, and Transport of Hormones Controlling Insect Metamorphosis

      • Lawrence I. Gilbert, Walter Goodman
      Pages 139-175

    6. Macromolecular Changes during Insect Metamorphosis

      • S. Sridhara
      Pages 177-216

    7. Drosophila Imaginal Discs as a Model System for the Study of Metamorphosis

      • James W. Fristrom
      Pages 217-240

    8. Cell Lines as a Model for the Study of Metamorphosis

      • John D. O’Connor, Ernest S. Chang
      Pages 241-261

  4. Vertebrates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Survey of Chordate Metamorphosis

      • John J. Just, Jeanne Kraus-Just, Deborah Ann Check
      Pages 265-326

    3. Cytological and Morphological Changes during Amphibian Metamorphosis

      • Harold Fox
      Pages 327-362

    4. Hormonal Control of Amphibian Metamorphosis

      • Bruce A. White, Charles S. Nicoll
      Pages 363-396

    5. Biological Basis of Tissue Regression and Synthesis

      • Burr G. Atkinson
      Pages 397-444

    6. Transitions in the Nervous System during Amphibian Metamorphosis

      • Jerry J. Kollros
      Pages 445-459

    7. Changes in the Blood during Amphibian Metamorphosis

      • Robert H. Broyles
      Pages 461-490

    8. Biochemical Characterization of Organ Differentiation and Maturation

      • Sandra J. Smith-Gill, Virginia Carver
      Pages 491-544

    9. The Dual Role of Thyroid Hormones in Vertebrate Development and Calorigenesis

      • Earl Frieden
      Pages 545-563

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 565-578
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About this book

"The old order changeth, yielding place to new. " When Tennyson wrote this, he was unfamiliar with the pace of modem science else he would have said the new is displaced by the newer. When Gilbert and I gathered the papers for the first edition of this overview of metamorphosis, we aimed to provide a broad basis upon which the experimental analysis of the developmental changes called metamorphosis could proceed. We were both aware then that with the new techniques of biochemistry and with the revolutionary breakthrough to the nature of the gene, countless new possibilities were being opened for the exploration of the molecular basis of development. The resources offered by metamorphic changes offered unique opportunities to trace the path from gene to phenotype. Our expectations were high. I visited Larry Gilbert and Earl Frieden in their laboratories and saw with envy how far advanced they were then in the use of molecular methods of analysis. I had started on a different approach to develop an in vitro test for thyroid action on amphibian tissue. But circumstances limited my own progress to the initial delim­ itation of the technical possibilities of the in vitro system. Only from the sidelines could I watch the steady if slow progress of biology in penetrating the maze of molecular events by which animal tissues re­ spond to hormonal and other developmental factors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Lawrence I. Gilbert

  • Department of Chemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

    Earl Frieden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Metamorphosis

  • Book Subtitle: A Problem in Developmental Biology

  • Editors: Lawrence I. Gilbert, Earl Frieden

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3246-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-3248-0Published: 01 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-3246-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 578

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Developmental Biology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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