Advances in insect physiology

by Jurenka, Russell

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Title Statements

Full title :Advances in insect physiology.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Academic Press
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource.

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ISBN:9780128026793, 0128026790
oclc:ocn931603953
LC Classification:QL495
Dewey Decimal:571.157

Front Cover; Advances in Insect Physiology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter One: Evolution of the Mechanisms Underlying Insect Respiratory Gas Exchange; 1. Introduction; 2. The Physics of Gas Exchange; 3. Insect Respiratory Chemoreception Mechanisms; 4. Diversity and Characterisation of Gas Exchange Patterns; 5. Functional Significance and Evolution of Gas Exchange Patterns; 5.1. Adaptive Hypotheses; 5.2. Mechanistic Hypotheses; 5.3. Mathematical Models of Gas Exchange Patterns; 6. Conclusions and Future Directions; Acknowledgement; References.

Chapter Two: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrition in Honey Bees1. Introduction; 2. Nutrients and Digestive Enzymes; 3. Physiological Regulation of Nutrition During Larval Development; 3.1. Effects of Nutrition on Queen-Worker Caste Differentiation; 3.1.1. Nurse Feeding Program; 3.1.2. Larval Developmental Program in Response to Nutrition and Nourishment; 3.1.3. Molecular Signals Regulating Queen-Worker Differentiation; 3.1.4. Environmental and Genetic Components in Worker Larval Development and Health; 3.2. Nutrition-Induced Epigenetic Regulation During Larval Development.

3.2.1. Regulation of DNA Methylation in …