Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos
1971
Costello, Donald P. | Henley, Catherine
Preparation of the first edition was completed under a National ScienceFoundation grant (NSF-G2477); the present revision was made possible, in part, bya grant from the National Institutes of Health, GM 15311.
Show more [+] Less [-]From the Preface: The Introduction to the first edition of this book (1957) (see page viii) statedthat the volume was admittedly incomplete, and that new methods for obtaining,handling and studying marine eggs and embryos would undoubtedly be forthcoming.This prediction has been abundantly borne out in the intervening 14 years, and acomplete revision of the book is clearly called for. A major re-writing is now(June, 1971) in progress. However, steadily continuing sales have resulted in thefirst edition going out of print, and it seemed advisable to re-issue it, with certainminor changes, as a stopgap measure, pending the major re-writing in progress. Inthe interim, it is appropriate here to point out some of the newer sources of informationnow available, and to note a few of the advances which have been madesince 1957.
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