Locust Phase Polyphenism
An Update
Published on 14. May 2014
295 pages
978-0-12-381428-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. This volume is a thematic volume focusing on locust phase polyphenism.
- Contributions from the leading researchers in entomology
- Discusses the physiological diversity in insects
- Includes in-depth reviews with valuable information for a variety of entomology disciplines
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Meir Pener | Stephen Simpson
Advances in Insect Physiology: Volume 36
Locust Phase Polyphenism: An Update
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09/2009
Academic Press
€149.80
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Content
1. Introduction2. Insect polyphenism3. Density-dependent phase polyphenism4. Locust phase characteristics5. Morphology6. Anatomy7. Colouration and pigments8. Reproduction9. Endocrinology10. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology11. Behaviour12. Volatiles and volatile phermones13. Cuticular substances and contact phermones14. Factors that induce gregarious phase characteristics15. Factors that induce solitarious phase characteristics16. Transmission of phase from parents to progeny17. Ecology and ecophysiology18. Concluding remarks
