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Edited By
Nancy Beckage, University of California, Department of Entomology, Riverside, USA
Audience
Industry and government scientists in areas related to entomology, immunology, vector biology and disease transmission, pattern recognition
processes, pathology, physiology, and biochemistry; medically-oriented immunologists, cell biologists and hematologists; upper level
undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers.
Contents
Preface: An Insect's Perspective on Immunity
1: Insect and Vertebrate Immunity: Key Similarities versus Differences
Otto Schmidt, Ulrich
Theopold and Nancy E. Beckage
2: Insect Hemocytes and their Role in Immunity
Michael R. Strand
3: Eicosanoid Actions in Insect Immunology
David W. Stanley and Jon S. Miller
4: Phenoloxidases in Insect Immunity
Michael R. Kanost and Maureen J. Gorman
5: Evidence for
Specificity and Memory in the Insect Innate Immune Response
Linh N. Pham and David S. Schneider
6: Bidirectional Connections Between
the Immune System and the Nervous System in Insects
Shelley Anne Adamo
7: Bloodfeeding as an Interface of Mammalian and Arthropod
Immunity
Leyla Akman-Anderson, Yoram Vodovotz, Ruben Zamora, and Shirley Luckhart
8: Mosquito Immunity to the Malaria Parasite
Lindsey
S. Garver, Luke Baton and George Dimopoulos
9: Insect Immunity to Viruses
Wendy O. Sparks, Lyric C. Bartholomay and Byrony C. Bonning
10: Parasitoid Polydnaviruses and Insect Immunity
Nancy E. Beckage
11: Insect Immune Recognition and Suppression
Otto Schmidt
12: RNAi and the Insect Immune System
Stuart E. Reynolds and Ioannis Eleftherianos
13: Epilogue: Pathways into the Future of Insect
Immunology
Nancy E. Beckage
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Hardbound, 360 pages, publication date: DEC-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373976-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-373976-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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