Research Catalog

Title

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration [edited by George M. Hughes].

Author

Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain)

Publication

Cambridge, London, published for the Company of Biologists on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology [by] Cambridge U.P., 1966.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, G. M. (George Morgan)
• American Society of Zoologists.
• Company of Biologists.

Description

viii, 565 pages illustrations, plates, diagrams; 26 cm

Series Statement

• Its Symposia, no. 20
• Society for Experimental Biology (Great Britain). Symposia ; no. 20.

Subject

• Neuroendocrinology
• Biological control systems
• Reflexes
• Animal behavior
• Hormones
• Neurophysiology
• Neurosecretion
• Behavior, Animal
• Hormones
• Neurophysiology
• Neurosecretion
• Neuroendocrinology
• Reflex
• hormone
• Animal behavior
• Biological control systems
• Reflexes

Note

• "The twentieth symposium of the Society for Experimental Biology, held jointly with the American Society of Zoologists in St. Andrews in September 1965."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Prologue : strategies for blind physiologists with elephantine problems / T.H. Bullock -- The co-ordination and control of cilia / M.A. Sleigh -- Mechanisms of pacemaker and effector integration in coelenterates / R.K. Josephson -- Action potentials in plant organs / T. Sibaoka -- The unit basis of some crustacean reflexes / D. Kennedy, W.H. Evoy and H.L. Fields -- Integration in crustacean ganglia / D.M. Maynard -- Integration in the visual pathway of Crustacea / C.A.G. Wiersma -- Study of a system, as illustrated by the optokinetic response / G.A. Horridge -- Central nervous mechanisms for the generation of rhythmic behaviour in arthropods / D.M. Wilson -- The co-ordination of walking movements in arthropods / G. Wendler -- Acoustic orientation of a moth in flight by means of two sense cells / K.D. Roeder and R.S. Payne -- Chemical sense communication in insects / D. Schneider -- Chemical transmitters in invertebrate nervous systems / H.M. Gerschenfeld -- On the production of hormones by neurones and the role of neurosecretion in neuroendocrine mechanisms / H.A. Bern -- The integrative action of a worm's brain / R.B. Clark -- Nervous and endocrine control of sexual behaviour in a grasshopper (Gomphocerus rufus L., Acridinae) / W. Loher and F. Huber -- Integration of the reproductive behaviour of female canaries / R.A. Hinde and E. Steel -- On the endocrine control of reproductive behaviour in the male three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) / B. Baggerman -- Long-lasting phenomena in the molluscan nervous system / J. Bruner and L. Tauc -- Learning in the octopus / M.J. Wells -- Basic patterns of plastic change in the mammalian nervous system / W. Kozak and R. Westerman.

LCCN

67071828

OCLC

• ocm02387540
• 2387540
• SCSB-2119978

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library