Advances in Insect Physiology

Provides an interdisciplinary review of the latest available data and research relating to insect physiology

Russell Jurenka (Series edited by)

9780128025864, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 21 August 2015

186 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.34 kg

"This volume provides an aptly timed interdisciplinary review on aspects of bark beetle physiology, especially how it relates to selecting, colonizing, and surviving in host trees. Overall, these reviews will be valuable to students and researchers seeking fundamental information about these devastating insects." --The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.92, No. 4

Advances in Insect Physiology provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists, and insect chemists.

1. Evolution of the Mechanisms Underlying Insect Respiratory Gas Exchange
   Philip G. D. Matthews and John S. Terblanche
2. Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrition in Honey Bees
   Ying Wang and Hongmei Li-Byarlay
3. Antennal Mechanosensors and their Evolutionary Antecedents
   Anand Krishnan and Sanjay P. Sane
4. Comb Architecture of the Eusocial Bees Arises from Simple Rules Used During Cell Building
   Benjamin P. Oldroyd and Stephen C. Pratt
5. The Prxamide Neuropeptide Signaling System: Conserved in Animals
   Russell Jurenka
   

Subject Areas: Insects [entomology PSVT7], Molecular biology [PSD], Biochemistry [PSB]