Insects at Low Temperature

Herausgegeben von Lee, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of insects at low temperature is a comparatively new field. Only recently has insect cryobiology begun to mature, as research moves from a descriptive approach to a search for underlying mechanisms at diverse levels of organization ranging from the gene and cell to ecological and evolutionary relationships. Knowledge of insect responses to low temperature is crucial for understanding the biology of insects living in seasonally varying habitats as well as in polar regions. It is not possible to precisely define low temperature. In the tropics exposure to 10-15°C may induce chill coma or death, whereas some insects in temperate and polar regions remain active and indeed even able to fly at O°C or below. In contrast, for persons interested in cryopreservation, low temperature may mean storage in liquid nitrogen at - 196°C. In the last decade, interest in adaptations of invertebrates to low temperature has risen steadily. In part, this book had its origins in a symposium onthis subject that was held at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, USA in December, 1988. However, the emergence and growth of this area has also been strongly influenced by an informal group of investigators who met in a series of symposia held in Oslo, Norway in 1982, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1985 and in Cambridge, England in 1988. Another is scheduled for Binghamton, New York, USA (1990).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4757-0192-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 751g
• ISBN-13: 9781475701920
• ISBN-10: 1475701926
• Artikelnr.: 37525453

Inhaltsangabe

Physiology of Insect Cold Hardiness.- 1. A Tribute to R. W. Salt.- 2. Principles of Insect Low Temperature Tolerance.- 3. The Water Relations of Overwintering Insects.- 4. Biochemistry of Cryoprotectants.- 5. Hemolymph Proteins Involved in Insect Subzero-Temperature Tolerance: Ice Nucleators and Antifreeze Proteins.- Impact on Development and Survival.- 6. Cold Shock and Heat Shock.- 7. Effects of Cold on Morphogenesis.- 8. Relationship between Cold Hardiness and Diapause.- 9. Thermoperiodism.- Species Adaptations.- 10. Winter Habitats and Ecological Adaptations for Winter Survival.- 11. Freezing Tolerance in the Goldenrod Gall Fly (Eurosta solidaginis).- 12. Behavioral and Physiological Adaptations to Cold in a Freeze-Tolerant Arctic Insect.- 13. Comparative Invertebrate Cold Hardiness.- 14. Adaptations to Alpine and Polar Environments in Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods.- 15. Overwintering of Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates.- Practical Applications.- 16. Cryopreservation of Insect Germplasm: Cells, Tissues, and Organisms.- 17. Cryobiology of Drosophila melanogaster Embryos.- 18. Silkworm Eggs at Low Temperatures: Implications for Sericulture.- 19. Overwintering in Honey Bees: Implications for Apiculture.- 20. Implications of Cold Hardiness for Pest Management.- Taxonomic Index.- Contributors.