
Insect Endocrinology
Description
Key Features
- Articles selected by the known and respected editor-in-chief of the original major reference work, Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science
- Newly revised contributions bring together the latest research in the quickly moving field of insect endocrinology
- Review of the literature of the past five years is now included, as well as full use of data arising from the application of molecular technologies wherever appropriate
Table of Contents
INSECT ENDOCRINOLOGY
Lawrence I. Gilbert, editor
1. Prothoracicotropic Hormone
Wendy Smith and Robert Rybczynski
2. Insulin-Like Peptides: Structure, Signaling and Function
Yevgeniya Antonova, Anam J. Arik, Wendy Moore, Michael A. Riehle and Mark R. Brown
3. Bursicon, a Neuropeptide Hormone That Controls Cuticle Tanning and Wing Expansion
Qisheng Song
4. Ecdysteroid Chemistry and Biochemistry
Rene Lafont, J T Warren, and H Rees
5. The Ecdysteroid Receptor
Vincent Henrich
6. Evolution of Nuclear Receptors in Insects
François Bonneton and Vincent Laudet
7. Neuroendocrine Regulation of Ecdysis
Dusan Zitnan and Michael Adams
8. The Juvenile Hormones
Walter Goodman and Michel Cusson
9. Hormones Controlling Homeostasis in Insects
David Schooley, F.M. Hordyski and G. Coast
10. Hormonal Control of Diapause
David Denlinger, George D. Yocum and Joseph P. Rinehart
11. Endocrine Control of Insect Polyphenism
Klaus Hartfelder and Doug Emlen
12. Pheromone Production: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Gary J. Blomquist, Russell Jurenka, Coby Schal and Claus Tittiger
Product details
- No. of pages: 588
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2011
- Published: July 26, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123847492
- eBook ISBN: 9780123848512