Current Topics in Insect Endocrinology and Nutrition: A Tribute to Gottfried S. Fraenkel

ISBN-13: 9781461332121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 362 str.

Govindan Bhaskaran

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Stanley Friedman University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois A perusal of the table of contents of this short symposium on Insect Endocrinology might lead those who are generally unin structed in Fraenkel's activities to wonder as to our choice of papers. Our justification is based upon our effort to concentrate the symposium upon a single area in which he has had an extended involvement: namely, the metamorphic molt in flies. In so doing, we immediately recognized the enormous humoral and physiological ramifications, both direct and indirect, of such an interest. Our selection of these papers is an attempt to present the broad picture with a few quick strokes. The first offering, by J. H. Willis, et al., is a direct outgrowth of Fraenkel's work with Rudall on the chemistry of the puparium. Their investigations on the structure of fly cuticle and its changes at pupariation (Fraenkel and Rudall, 1940, Proc. Roy. Soc. London ( ) 129:1; 1947, ibid, 134:111), provided quanti tative data which have, since that time, influenced our ideas con cerning cuticular changes at metamorphosis and are presently at the center of the controversy over the mechanism of cuticular hardening and darkening (see Hillerton and Vincent, 1979, l. Ins. Physiol."

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Gottfried S. Fraenkel, An Appreciation.- Gottfried S. Fraenkel — Publications.- Symposium Insect Endocrinology.- The Metamorphosis of Arthropodin J. C. Regier, and B. A. DeBrunner.- Recent Results on the Neuroendocrine System of Leucophaea.- Regulation of Corpus Allatum Activity in Last Instar Manduca Sexta.- An In Vitro Approach for Investigating the Regulation of the Corpora Allata during Larval-pupal Metamorphosis.- A Minimal Model Of Metamorphosis: Fat Body Competence to Respond to Juvenile Hormone.- The Physiology of Pupal Diapause in Flesh Flies.- Blood Borne Factors Controlling Pupariation in Flies.- Hormonal Control Of Pupal Ecdysis In The Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca Sexta.- Symposium on Insect Nutrition.- Essential Fatty Acids for Mosquitoes, Other Insects and Vertebrates.- Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate and Lipid on Nutrition and Metabolism of Lllitazoan Parasites with Special Reference to Parasitic Hymenoptera.- Dietary Modulation of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase and 6-Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase in Drosophila.- Resolution and Partial Characterization of the Digestive Proteinases from Larvae of the Black Carpet Beetle.- Insect Dietetics: Complexities of Plant-Insect Interactions.- Techniques and Applications of Measurements of Consumption and Utilization of Food by Phytophagous Insects.- Index — Insect Endocrinology.- Index — Insect Nutrition.