Chapter 11 - Bibliography

Hamburger, V. and H. L. Hamilton. 1951. A series of normal stages in the develop-ment of the chick embryo. J. Morphol. 88: 49–92. This is the original publication of the Hamburger-Hamilton chick staging series.

Humason, G. L. 1972. Animal Tissue Techniques, 3rd Ed. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco. This is one of the best sources on histological techniques—it is out of print, but has been reissued by John Hopkin’s University Press (see reference below).

Presnell, Janice K., Gretchen L. Humason and Martin Schreibman. 1997. Humason’s Animal Tissue Techniques, 5th Ed. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore. The reissuing of Humason’s classic.

Romanoff, A. L. 1960. The Avian Embryo. Macmillan, New York. This book has an extensive chapter on the embryonic heart, including experimental results on changes in heart rate under conditions of altered temperature and chemical environment.