Insect Biochemistry - Brossura

Rees, H. H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0412131307 ISBN 13: 9780412131301

Casa editrice: Springer, 1977

Riassunto

entiated free-living organism (larva), which is The success of the Insecta as a class (nearly extensively destroyed and rebuilt into a mor­ 1 million spp.; Certain carefully selected insect ment of new methods of controlling the pest material can, thus, provide suitable model species.

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Contenuti

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Growth and development.- 2 Distinctive features of metabolism and homeostasis.- 2.1 Digestion and absorption.- 2.2 The flight muscle.- 2.2.1 Respiratory exchange.- 2.2.2 Nature of the substrate consumed during flight.- 2.2.3 Flight muscle morphological organization.- 2.3 Carbohydrate metabolism.- 2.3.1 Interconversion of glucose, glycogen and trehalose.- 2.3.2 Catabolism of carbohydrates in flight muscle.- 2.3.3 The respiratory chain.- 2.3.4 Control of flight muscle mitochondrial oxidations and respiration.- 2.3.5 Metabolic changes during development.- 2.3.6 Metabolism during diapause.- 2.4 Lipid metabolism.- 2.5 Nitrogen metabolism.- 2.5.1 Amino acid and protein metabolism.- 2.5.2 Nitrogen excretion.- 2.6 Haemolymph.- 2.7 The integument.- 2.7.1 Structure of the integument.- 2.7.2 The moulting process.- 2.7.3 Sclerotization and puparium formation.- 2.8 Microsomal oxidations and insecticide resistance.- 2.9 Chemical control mechanisms: neurohormones and cyclic nucleotides.- References.- 3 Hormonal control of development.- 3.1 Endocrine control of moulting and metamorphosis.- 3.2 Determination and differentiation.- 3.3 Moulting hormones.- 3.3.1 Chemical nature and occurrence.- 3.3.2 Biosynthesis and metabolism.- 3.3.3 Effects of ecdysones.- 3.4 Juvenile hormones.- 3.4.1 Chemical nature and occurrence.- 3.4.2 Biosynthesis, transport and metabolism.- 3.4.3 Effects of juvenile hormone.- 3.5 Biochemical mode of action of ecdysones.- 3.5.1 Polytene chromosomes and puffing.- 3.5.2 Selective gene derepression hypothesis.- 3.5.3 Ion hypothesis of gene activation.- 3.5.4 Cyclic AMP.- 3.6 Biochemical mode of action of juvenile hormones.- 3.6.1 Transcriptional control.- 3.6.2 Translational control.- 3.6.3 Membrane effects.- Summary.- References.- 4 Insects and the external environment: pheromones and defensive substances.- 4.1 Pheromones.- 4.1.1 Sex pheromones.- 4.1.2 Alarm pheromones.- 4.1.3 Recruitment pheromones.- 4.1.4 Aggregation pheromones.- 4.1.5 Primer pheromones.- 4.2 Defensive chemistry.- References.- 5 New approaches to insect control.- References.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0412131307
• ISBN 13: 9780412131301
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 68
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