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Polyembryonic Insects - An Extreme Clonal Reproductive Strategy

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects. The study of polyembronic insects has advanced considerably over the last several decades.The book shows the exciting potential of polyembryonic insects and their impact on life sciences. It describes the mechanisms of polyembryogenesis; tissue-compatible invasion of the host, which is the first case of compatible cellular interaction between phylogenetically distant organisms without rejection; the sex differences in defense; and the environmental regulation of caste structure. 
The first book devoted to polyembryony in insects, it draws on the author's research on polyembryonic wasps from 1990 to the present day, covering various topics such as polyembryogenesis in vitro, host-parasite interaction, sex differences in soldier function/humoral toxic factor, and the transcription analysis of polyembryogenesis.It is intended not only for researchers in the field of entomology, parasitology, ontogeny, reproductive biology, developmental biology, sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), but also for postgraduate students in these fields.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Overview of polyembryony.- Chapter 2. Polyembryony in encyrtid parasitoids. Chapter 3. Host-polyembryonic parasitoid interactions.- Chapter 4. Sociality in polyembryonic parasitoids.- Chapter 5. Ecology and evolution of polyembryony.                         

About the author










Kikuo Iwabuchi is an Emeritus Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He received his undergraduate degree from Chiba University in 1975, and his Ph.D in Science from Kyoto University in 1988. From 2001 to 2017, he was a Professor of Applied Entomology at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, where he became an Emeritus Professor in 2019.  He was the president of The Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology from 2015 to 2017.  


Product details

Authors Kikuo Iwabuchi
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.02.2021
 
EAN 9789811509605
ISBN 978-981-1509-60-5
No. of pages 199
Dimensions 155 mm x 11 mm x 235 mm
Illustrations X, 199 p. 37 illus., 23 illus. in color.
Series Entomology Monographs
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology

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