Embryology of Insects and Myriapods: The Developmental History of Insects, Centipedes, and Millepedes from Egg Desposition to Hatching

xi, 462 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction: Ontogenetic Development--The Cell--Types of Cleavage in Animal Eggs; A Type of Embryonic Development in Insects; The Egg, Fertilization, Maturation, and Cleavage; Early Development: The Blastoderm--Yolk Cells--Secondary Yolk Cleavage--Germ Cells--Germ Band--Segmentation--Appendages; Embryonic Envelopes, Dorsal Organs, and Blastokinesis; Gastrulation, Formation of the Germ Layers, and Development of the Entoderm; The Alimentary Canal; Ectodermal Derivatives; Mesodermal Derivatives; Polyembryony and Parthenogenesis; Microorganisms in the Egg; Experimental Embryology; Oligoentomata and Aptilota; Ephemerida, Odonata, Plecoptera, Embiaria, Dermaptera, Hemimerina; Orthopteroidea (Panorthoptera); Oligonephridia; Neuroptera and Coleoptera; Hymenoptera; Trichoptera and Lepidoptera; Siphonaptera and Diptera; Myriapoda; Bibliography; Index.