
Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis
Description
Key Features
- A broad look at the wide range of symbiont roles and impacts throughout Insecta
- Molecular and genomic-assisted insights into the diversity and function of symbioses
- Insights into the influence and integration of symbionts from medically and agriculturally important insects
Readership
Entomologists, Microbiologists, Molecular Ecologists, Biology-themed undergraduates and graduate students
Table of Contents
1. Editorial overview: Mechanisms underlying microbial symbiosis
Kerry Oliver and Jacob A. Russell
2. Symbiotic solutions to nitrogen limitation: diversity, genomics, and integration of nitrogen-provisioning symbioses
Allison Hansen
3. Symbiont mediated degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides in herbivorous insects
John Wertz
4. Regulation of an insect endosymbiosis
Alexandra C. C. Wilson
5. Host-symbiont specificity in insects: underpinning mechanisms and evolution
Yoshitomo Kikuchi
6. Common themes in intracellular reproductive manipulators of arthropods
Martha Hunter
7. Insect symbionts at the interface of plant-insect interactions
Enric Frago
8. Functions and mechanisms of symbionts of insect disease vectors
Kevin Vogel
9. Offensive symbioses: co-option of viruses by parasitoids
Elisabeth Huguet
10. Symbiont produced allelochemicals used in host defense
Steven Perlman
Product details
- No. of pages: 364
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 27, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081029879
- eBook ISBN: 9780081029886
About the Serial Volume Editors
Kerry Oliver

Affiliations and Expertise
Jacob Russell

Affiliations and Expertise
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