Insulin-like growth factors: Growth, transgenes and imprinting Ward, A., P. Bierke, E. Pettersson and W. Engström 167
Processing of contrast signals in the insect ocellar system Mizunami, M. 175
Physiology
Output effect of identified interneurons upon the abdominal postural system in the crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Gerard) Aonuma, H., T. Nagayama, M. Hisada 191
Immunology
Phagocytic activity of tunic cells in the colonial ascidian Aplidum yamazii (Polyclinidae, Aplousobranchia) Hirose, E., T. Ishii, Y. Saito, Y. Taneda 303
Biochemistry
In vitro autophosphorylation and cyclic nucleotide-dependent dephosphorylation of sea urchin sperm histone kinase Harumi, T., K. Hoshino, N. Suzuki 209
Rapid and quantitative detection of aspartic proteinase in animal tissues by radio-labeled pepstatin A Mukai, M., T. Kondo, K. Yoshizato 221
Evolution of phosphagen kinase (III). Amino acid sequence of arginine kinase from the shrimp Penaeus japonicus Furukohri, T., S. Okamoto, T. Suzuki 229
Developmental Biology
The development of the vermiform embryos of two mesozoans, Dicyema acuticephalum and Dicyema japonicum Furuya, H., K. Tsuneki, Y. Koshida 235
Female myoblasts can participate in the formation of a male-specific muscle in Drosophila Kimura, K., K. Usui, T. Tanimura 247
Induction of metamorphosis in the sea urchin, Pseudocentrotus depressus, using L-glutamine Yazaki, I., H. Harashima 253
Control of growth and differentiation of chondrogenic fibroblasts in soft-agar culture: Role of basic fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor- Ohya, Y., K. Watanabe 261
Reproductive Biology
Membrane-bound inclusions in the Leydig cell cytoplasm of the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps (Lacertilia: Scincidae) Okia, N. O. 269
Identification and localization of a ligand molecule of Xenopus cortical granule lectins Yoshizaki, N. 275
Localization and purification of serum albumin in the testis of Xenopus laevis Nakamura, M., T. Yamanobe, M. Takase 285
Endocrinology
Spatiotemporal pattern of DNA synthesis detected by bromodeoxyuridine labeling in the mouse endometrial stroma during decidualization Ohta, N., T. Mori, S. Kawashima, S. Sakamoto, H. Kobayashi 291
Endocrine control of cartilage growth in coho salmon: GH influence in vivo on the response to IGF-I in vitro Tsai, P. I., S. S. Madsen, S. D. McCormick, H. A. Bern 299
Environmental Biology
Mesostigmatic mites (Acari) associated with ground, burying, roving carrion and dung beetles (Coleoptera) in Sapporo and Tomakomai, Hokkaido, northern Japan Takaku, G., H. Katakura, N. Yoshida 305
Systematics and Taxonomy
First fossil record of the family Phormosomatidae (Echinothurioida: Echinoidea) from the Early Miocene Morozaki Group, central Japan Amemiya, S., Y. Mizuno, S. Ohta 313
Phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with description of a new subspecies Grismer, L. L., H. Ota, S. Tanaka 319
Polymorphism of lampbrush chromosomes in Japanese populations of Rana nigromaculata Ohtani, H. 337
Biochemical systematics of five asteroids of the family Asteriidae based on allozyme variation Matsuoka, N., K. Fukuda, K. Yoshida, M. Sugawara, M. Inamori 343
