Molecular mechanism of follicle rupture during ovulation Takahashi, T., J. Ohnishi 359
Cell migration from the olfactory placode and ontogeny of the neuroendocrine compartments Tarozzo, G., P. Peretto, A. Fasolo 367
Physiology
Efferent control in the anterior lateral eyes of orb weaving spiders Yamashita, S., F. Arita 385
Protein kinase C (PKC) signal transduction system involved in larval metamorphosis of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite Yamamoto, H., A. Tachibana, K. Matsumura, N. Fusetani 391
Phase-response analysis of stretch-mediated beat coordination in the oyster heart. I. Phase-response characteristics of auricle and ventricle to brief stretches Uesaka, H., H. Yamagishi, A. Ebara 397
Phase-response analysis of stretch-mediated beat coordination inthe oyster heart. II. Mutual entrainment of auricle and ventricle Yamagishi, H., H. Uesaka, A. Ebara 405
Cell and Molecular Biology
In vitro reactions of coelomocytes against sheep red blood cells in the solitary ascidian Halocynthia roretzi Dan-Sohkawa, M., M. Morimoto, H. Kaneko 411
Puromycin induces apoptosis of developing chick sympathetic neurons in a similar manner to NGF-deprivation Sugita, M., T. Morita, T. Yonesaki 419
Genetics
Genetic differentiation in Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani (White): isozyme variation among natural populations in Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo Aotsuka, T., T. Suzuki, T. Moriya, A. Inaba 427
Immunology
Colony specificity in the marine bryozoan Dakaria subovoidea Ishii, T., Y. Saito 435
Spontaneous cytotoxic earthworm leukocytes kill K562 tumor cells Suzuki, M. M., E. L. Cooper 443
Biochemistry
The cDNA-derived amino acid sequence of chain II of the heterodimeric hemoglobin from the blood clam Barbatia virescens Suzuki, T., T. Arita, Y. Kawasaki 453
Reproductive Biology
Neurotrophin-3 augments steroid secretion by hamster ovarian follicles in vitro (RC) Waraksa, J. A., R. M. Lindsay, N. Y. Ip, R. J. Hutz 499
Endocrinology
The effects of testosterone and estradiol on mast cell number in the harderian gland of the frog, Rana esculenta Di Matteo, L., G. C. Baccari, P. Chieffi, S. Minucci 457
Behavior Biology
Cannibalism and the resulting dimorphism in larvae of a salamander Hynobius retardatus, inhabited in Hokkaido, Japan Wakahara, M. 467
Regular pulse emission in some megachiropteran bats (RC) Funakoshi, K., A. Zubaid, S. Matsumura 503
Orientation of the toad, Bufo japonicus, toward the breeding pond Ishii, S., K. Kubokawa, M. Kikuchi, H. Nishio 475
Environmental Biology and Ecology
Incipient post-copulatory isolation and morphological divergence in the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae Kasuya, E. 485
Systematics and Taxonomy
A new species of the genus Rhyacodrilus bretscher (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) from Japanese lakes Ohtaka, A. 491
