Advances in Insect Physiology

Contains comprehensive reviews on the various aspects of insect physiology. Suitable for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists, this title provides an international perspective. It focuses on locust phase polyphenism. It includes contributions from the researchers in entomology.

List of contents

1. Increasing Demands and Vanishing Expertise in Insect Integrative Biology
Jérôme Casas and Stephen Simpson


2. Chitin Biochemistry: Synthesis, Hydrolysis and Inhibition
   E. Cohen


3. Diverse Strategies of Protein Sclerotization in Marine Invertebrates: Structure-Property Relationships in Natural Biomaterials
Daniel J. Rubin, Ali Miserez, and J. Herbert Waite


4. Insect Cuticular Surface Modifications: Scales and Other Structural Formations
Helen Ghiradella


5. Structural colours
Jean-Pol Vigneron and Priscilla Simonis


6. Molecular and Physiological Basis of Color Pattern Formation
   H. Frederik Nijhout


7. Insect Colors and Visual Appearance in the Eyes of their Predators
   Marc Théry and Doris Gomez

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Simpson, Stephen Simpson
• Assisted by: Jerome Casas (Editor), Stephen Simpson (Editor), Stephen J. Simpson (Editor), Casas Jerome (Editor of the series), Simpson Stephen (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.07.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780123813893
• ISBN: 978-0-12-381389-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Academic Press; Advances in Insect Physiology; Advances in Insect Physiology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology, Insects (entomology)