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Entomology is a super science, embracing interdisciplinary approaches in genomics, proteomics, and interdependent fields of biochemistry, physiology, molecular entomology, and biotechnology. An urgent need to manage available resources for the benefit of the planet and humankind has led to remarkable progress since publication of the fruit fly genome in 2000. "Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics" presents multiple perspectives of recognized experts from around the world in genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology, emphasizing fast-moving areas of current research on insects and other arthropods. Concise, accessible, topical reviews include body lice and white fly genome projects, aphid phenotypic plasticity, insect regulatory genomics, the complex tick sialome, protein expression systems, therapeutic potential of insect antimicrobial peptides, nanoparticle insecticides, and novel uses for recombinant and synthetic spider silks.
List of contents
1.Exploring the sialomes of ticks.- 2. Qualitative and quantitative proteomics methods for the analysis of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito proteome.- 3. Lepidopteran peritrophic matrix composition, function, and formation.- 4. Cold adaptation responses in insects and other arthropods: An "omics" approach.- 5. Selenocysteine extinctions in insects.- 6.
Lepidopteran antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): Overview, regulation, modes of action, and therapeutic potentials of insect-derived AMPs.- 7. Advanced protein expression using Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) bacmid in silkworm.- 8. Insect biotechnology.- 9. Spider silks and their biotechnological applications.- 10. Nano-insecticides for the control of human and crop pests
Summary
Entomology is a super science, embracing interdisciplinary approaches in genomics, proteomics, and interdependent fields of biochemistry, physiology, molecular entomology, and biotechnology. An urgent need to manage available resources for the benefit of the planet and humankind has led to remarkable progress since publication of the fruit fly genome in 2000. “Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics” presents multiple perspectives of recognized experts from around the world in genomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology, emphasizing fast-moving areas of current research on insects and other arthropods. Concise, accessible, topical reviews include body lice and white fly genome projects, aphid phenotypic plasticity, insect regulatory genomics, the complex tick sialome, protein expression systems, therapeutic potential of insect antimicrobial peptides, nanoparticle insecticides, and novel uses for recombinant and synthetic spider silks.
