Biological Regulation and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Action of Growth and Developmental Hormones

   • J. R. Tata

   Pages 1-58

3. Synthesis and Regulation of Receptors for Polypeptide Hormones

   • Barry H. Ginsberg

   Pages 59-97

4. Intracellular Receptors

   • James H. Clark, Ernest J. Peck Jr.

   Pages 99-127

5. Activation of Transcription by the Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein

   • Benoit De Crombrugghe, Stephen Busby, Henri Buc

   Pages 129-167

6. The Effect of Steroid Hormones on Gene Transcription

   • John N. Anderson

   Pages 169-212

7. Insect Hormones and the Regulation of Genetic Activity

   • Geoff Richards, Michael Ashburner

   Pages 213-253

8. Steroid Hormone Regulation of Sexual Reproduction in Achlya

   • William E. Timberlake, William C. Orr

   Pages 255-283

9. Circadian Rhythmicity

   • Joseph S. Takahashi, Michael Menaker

   Pages 285-303

10. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312

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The motivation for us to conceive this series of volumes on regulation was mainly our belief that it would be fun, and at the same time productive, to approach the subject in a way that differs from that of other treatises. We thought it might be interesting and instructive­ for both author and reader-to examine a particular area of investigation in a framework of many different problems. Cutting across the traditional boundaries that have separated the subjects in past volumes on regulation is not an easy thing to do-not because it is difficult to think of what interesting topics should replace the old ones, but because it is difficult to find authors who are willing to write about areas outside those pursued in their own laboratories. Anyone who takes on the task of reviewing a broad area of interest must weave together its various parts by picking up the threads from many different laboratories, and attempt to produce a fabric with a meaningful design. Finding persons who are likely to succeed in such a task was the most difficult part of our job. In the first volume of this treatise, most of the chapters dealt with the mechanisms of The second volume involved a somewhat regulation of gene expression in microorganisms. broader area, spanning the prokaryotic-eukaryotic border. Topics ranged from phage mor­ phogenesis to the role of gradients in development. The last volume-Volume 3A-con­ cerned hormones, as does this volume-Volume 3B.

• Expression
• Polypeptide
• Protein
• development
• evolution
• gene expression
• growth
• receptor
• regulation
• reproduction
• synthesis
• transcription
• Receptors

• Columbia University, New York, USA

  Robert F. Goldberger

• University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

  Keith R. Yamamoto

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