The cell surface : background and perspectives. Molecular interactions governing plasma membrane structure / Daniel Branton -- The motor of ameboid leukocytes / Thomas P. Stossel [and others] -- Cell-to-cell communication and development / Norton B. Gilula -- Cell surface protein and cell interactions / Kenneth M. Yamada, Kenneth Olden, and Liang-Hsien E. Hahn -- From cell adhesion to growth control / Luis Glaser -- The cell surface and early development. Membrane adhesions between chlamydomonas gametes and their role in cell-cell interactions / Urasula W. Goodenough and W. Steven Adair -- Physiology of fertilization and fertilization barriers in higher plants / H.F. Linskens -- Molecular alterations in gamete surfaces during fertilization and early development / Bennett M. Shapiro [and others] -- The adhesion of sperm to sea urchin eggs / Victor D. Vacquier.

Experimental analysis of the role of intracellular calcium in the activation of the sea urchin egg at fertilization / David Epel -- Initiation of the cell cycle and establishment of bilateral symmetry in xenopus eggs / Marc Kirschner [and others] -- The amphibian egg cortex in fertilization and early development / Ricahrd P. Elinson -- Cytostatic factor and chromosome behavior in early development / Yoshio Masui, Peter G. Meyerhof, and Margaret A. Miller -- The cell surface in normal and abnormal development. Cell configuration, substratum and growth control / Judah Folkman and Robert W. Tucker -- Lectins and their saccharide receptors as determinants of specificity in the rhizobium-legume symbiosis / Frank B. Dazzo -- Matrix glycoproteins in early mouse development and in differentiation of teratocarcinoma cells / Jorma Wartiovaara, Ilmo Leivo, and Antti Vaheri -- Use of teratocarinoma cells as a model system for studying the cell surface during early mammalian development / Gail R. Marin, Laura B. Grabel, and Steven D. Rosen -- Endogenous cell-surface lectins : evidence that they are cell adhesion molecules / Samuel H. Barondes.