A. P. Dyban and V. S. Baranov x+362pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987
This monograph has an interesting history. It was first published in Russian by Nauka (Moscow) in 1978. The authors kindly sent copies to some fellow cytogeneticists in Britain who, after perusing it as well as they could, agreed that the Englishspeaking world should be given the chance of reading it too. Largely through the good offices of Dr Anne McLaren, Oxford University Press undertook to publish an English translation of an updated version and here it is. The translation has been accomplished very stylishly by one of the authors, V. S. Baranov, and OUP should be congratulated on their bold decision.
The book deals in a systematic and thorough manner with an expanding field of enquiry. It is mainly devoted to experimental work on laboratory mammals, especially the mouse, but human examples of related phenomena (e.g. hydatidiform moles...
