UID:
almahu_9948025388102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (245 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-02733-2
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9786611027339
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0-08-053472-4
Inhalt:
Leading experts in the field bring together diverse aspects of insect timing mechanisms. This work combines three topics that are central to the understanding of biological timing in insects: circadian rhythms, photoperiodism, and diapause. The common theme underlining each of the contributions to this book is an understanding of the timing of events in the insect life cycle. Most daily activities (emergence, feeding, mating, egg laying, etc.) undertaken by insects occur at precise times each day. Likewise, seasonal events such as the entry into or termination from an overwintering dormancy
Anmerkung:
Based on papers from three symposiums held at the XXI International Congress of Entomology in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, Aug. 20-26, 2000.
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Front Cover; Insect Timing: Circadian Rhythmicity to Seasonality; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Chapter 1. The blow fly Calliphora vicina: a ""clock-work"" insect; Chapter 2. Molecular control of Drosophila circadian rhythms; Chapter 3. Organization of the insect circadian system: spatial and developmental expression of clock genes in peripheral tissues of Drosophila melcmogaster; Chapter 4. The circadian clock system of hemimetabolous insects; Chapter 5. Cellular circadian rhythms in the fly's visual system
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Chapter 6. Anatomy and functions of the brain neurosecretory neurons with regard to reproductive diapause in the blow fly Protopkormia terraenovaeChapter 7. Photoperiodism and seasonality in aphids; Chapter 8. Photoperiodic time measurement and shift of the critical photoperiod for diapause induction in a moth; Chapter 9. Geographical strains and selection for the diapause trait in Calliphora vicina; Chapter 10. Evolutionary aspects of photoperiodism in Drosophila; Chapter 11. Molecular analysis of overwintering diapause
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Chapter 12. Insights for future studies on embryonic diapause promoted by molecular analyses of diapause hormone and its action in Bombyx moriChapter 13. Stress proteins: a role in insect diapause?; Chapter 14. Regulation of the cell cycle during diapause; Chapter 15. Significance of specific factors produced throughout diapause in pharate first instar larvae and adults; Chapter 16. Surviving winter with antifreeze proteins: studies on budworms and beetles
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Chapter 17. Using ice-nucleating bacteria to reduce winter survival of Colorado potato beetles: development of a novel strategy for biological controlSpecies index; Subject index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-444-50608-X
Sprache:
Englisch
