Advances in Insect Physiology: Volume 39

ISBN-13: 9780123813879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 215 str.

Jerome Casas; Stephen Simpson

Opis

Advances in Insect Physiology publishes volumes containing important, comprehensive and in-depth reviews on all aspects of insect physiology. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists. First published in 1963, the serial is now edited by Steven Simpson and Jerome Casas to provide an international perspective.

• Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology
• Discusses physiological diversity in insects
• Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines

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1. Laboratory populations as a resource for understanding the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes: A global case study in locusts

Karine Berthier, Marie-Pierre Chapuis, Stephen J. Simpson, Hans-Jörg Ferenz, Chérif M. Habib Kane⁴, Le Kang, Angela Lange, Swidbert R. Ott, Mohammed A. Babah Ebbe, Kees W. Rodenburg, Stephen M. Rogers, Baldwin Torto, Jozef Vanden Broeck, Joop J. A. van Loon and Gregory A. Sword

2. The physiology of wound healing by the medicinal maggot, Lucilia sericata

Nigam Y; Dudley E; Bexfield A; Bond A.E; Evans J and James J

3. The Genetic Architecture of Honey-Bee Breeding

Peter R. Oxley and Benjamin P. Oldroyd

4. Plasmodium-mosquito interactions: a tale of roadblocks and detours

Ryan C. Smith and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena

5. Chemistry of Cuticular Sclerotization

Manickam Sugumaran