Stephen Simpson

Insect Integument and Colour

Volume 38
Herausgeber: Simpson, Stephen; Casas, Jerome

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Advances in Insect Physiology publishes eclectic and thematic volumes containing important, comprehensive and in-depth reviews of all aspects of insect physiology. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists. First published in 1963, the serial is now edited by Steve Simpson and Jerome Casas to provide an international perspective. This thematic volume on insect integument and colour contributes to the revival of insect integrative biology.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Insect Physiology Volume 38
• Verlag: Academic Press
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2009-0-01855-8
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780123813893
• ISBN-10: 0123813891
• Artikelnr.: 29976985

Inhaltsangabe

1. Increasing Demands and Vanishing Expertise in Insect Integrative Biology


Jérôme Casas and Stephen Simpson


2. Chitin Biochemistry: Synthesis, Hydrolysis and Inhibition E. Cohen



3. Diverse Strategies of Protein Sclerotization in Marine Invertebrates: Structure-Property Relationships in Natural Biomaterials


Daniel J. Rubin, Ali Miserez, and J. Herbert Waite


4. Insect Cuticular Surface Modifications: Scales and Other Structural Formations


Helen Ghiradella


5. Structural colours


Jean-Pol Vigneron and Priscilla Simonis


6. Molecular and Physiological Basis of Color Pattern Formation H. Frederik Nijhout



7. Insect Colors and Visual Appearance in the Eyes of their Predators Marc Théry and Doris Gomez