Revival: Insect-Plant Interactions (1993): Volume V

ISBN-13: 9781138560406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Elizabeth A. Bernays

Opis

Volume 5 of "Insect-Plant Interactions" is a volume in a series that presents research in the field. Topics covered include chemical changes in plants as a result of insects feeding on their leaves, dynamic elements of the use and avoidance of host plants by tephritid flies.

Spis treści

Section 1 Biochemistry of Insect-Plant Interactions:  2 Herbivore Oral Secretions are the First Line of Protection Against Plant-Induced Defences  3 Insect Detoxification and Sequestration Strategies  4 Plant Semiochemicals – Perception and Behavioural Responses by Insects  Section 2 Genetics and Genomics of Insect-Plant Interactions:  5 Plant Transcriptomic Responses to Herbivory  6 Transcriptome Responses in Herbivorous Insects Towards Host Plant and Toxin Feeding  7 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Insects  Section 3 Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions:  8 Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Evidence  9 Plant-mediated Interactions Among Insects within a Community Ecological Perspective  10 The Altitudinal Niche-Breadth Hypothesis in Insect-Plant Interactions  11 Revisiting Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution in the Molecular Biology Era

O autorze

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.