COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Contents of Volume 56 Number 2B, 1976

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S. S. DUFFEY, J. R. ALDRICH and M. S. BLUM: Biosynthesis of phenol and guaiacol by the hemipteran Leptoglossus phyllopus 101

W. ENGEL, P. KUHL and J. SCHMIDTKE: Expression of the paternally derived phosphoglucose isomerase genes during hybrid trout development 103

JERROLD H. ZAR: Fatty acid composition of Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) lipids 109 WILLIAM E. BOERNKE: A comparison of arginase maximum velocities from several poikilotherms and homeotherms 113 R. VAN DEN HURK and J. G. D. LAMEIERT: Biosynthesis of 11/I-hydroxy and 11-ketoandrogens in the testis

of the black molly, Poecilia (= Mollienisia)latipinna 117 GERARD LUCOTTE, ARTHUR PERRAMON and MARIE KAMINSKI: Molecular basis for heterosis in the chicken-quail

hybrid 119 J. A. PIECHOWSKI and D. J. MCWHINNIE: Amphibian acid phosphatase-III. Electrophoretic analysis of tissue

and plasma proteins and acid phosphatase isozymes in Rana pipiens 123 ALASTAIR W. M. HAY and GRAHAM WATSON: The binding of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and 25hydroxyergocalci-

feral to receptor proteins in a New World and an Old World primate SHIRO HORIUCHI: Characterization of eill Na. K-ATPase in the freshwater cravfish, Procambarus clarki (Girard) RENATA D~BROWSKA and ADAM SZPAC~NKO: Comparison of the composition anh properties of natural actomyosin

from carp (Cyprinus carpio) and rabbit skeletal muscle LAWRENCE K. DUFFY and CHARLES T. GENAUX: The primary structure of the hemoglobin b-chain of Microtlrs

xanthoynathus A. 1. AL-AYASH and MICHAEL T. WILSON: Isolation and properties of cytochrome c from the slime mould.

Dictyostelium discoideum R. GUYETANT: Electrophoresis, in polyacrylamide gel. of serum, liver and muscle proteins in A/ytu.s obstetricam

Laur. tadpoles I. R. F. BROWN and P. T. WHITE: Serum calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and alkaline phosphatase in the

African elephant, Loxodonta ufricana SEPPO PASANEN: Seasonal variations in certain enzyme activities in the common frog, Ranu temporaria L.. under

natural and experimental conditions FOUAD N. BOCTOR and MAMDOUH Y. KAMEL: Biochemical studies of tick embryogenesis. Free amino acid pools

during embryogenesis of Dermacentor andersoni R. MOREAU. L. GOURD~UX et J. DUTRIEU: Utilisation cornparke du cycle des pentoses en fonction des variations

thermiques chez deux ICpidopttres Bombyx mori L. et Pieris brassicae L. KENNETH B. STOREY: Lactate dehydrogenase in tissue extracts of the land snail, Helix aspersa: unique adaptation

of LDH subunits in a facultative anaerobe J. D. SALLIS and E. R. GUILER: Acid phosphatase in the Tasmanian devil: characterization through immunoeiec-

trophoresis and thin-layer isoelectric focusing in polyacrylamide gel E. STEERS JR. and R. H. DAVIS JR,: A reexamination of the structure of the immobilization antigen from Purume-

cium aureliu W. R. TERRA, C. FERREIRA and A. G. DE BIANCHI: Action pattern, kinetical properties and electrophoretical

studies of an alpha-amylase present in midgut homogenates from Rhynchosciara americana (Diptera) larvae

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