Xavier Belles

Insect Metamorphosis (eBook, ePUB)

From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution explores the origin of metamorphosis, how it evolved, and how it is it regulated. The book discusses insect metamorphosis as a key innovation in insect evolution. With most of the present biodiversity on Earth composed of metamorphosing insects-approximately 1 million species currently described, with another 10-30 million still waiting to be discovered, the book delves into misconceptions and past treatments. In addition, the topic of integrating insect metamorphosis into the theory of evolution by natural selection as noted by Darwin in his On the Origin of Species is also discussed.

Users will find this to be a comprehensive and updated review on insect metamorphosis, covering biological, physiological and molecular facets, with an emphasis on evolutionary aspects.

• Features updated knowledge from the past decade on the mechanisms of action of juvenile hormone, the main doorkeeper of insect metamorphosis
• Aids researchers in entomology or developmental biology dealing with specialized aspects of metamorphosis
• Provides applied entomologists with recently updated data, especially on regulation, to better face the problems of pest control and management
• Gives general evolutionary biologists context on the process of metamorphosis in its larger scope

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128130216
• Artikelnr.: 61689316

Autorenporträt

Xavier Belles is Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He has been founder (2008) and first director (2008-2016) of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Pompeu Fabra University), in Barcelona, where he still works. For more than 30 years, he has been studying the evolution of insect metamorphosis. He introduced the cockroach model in metamorphosis research, were he particularly investigated the molecular action of juvenile hormone and the role of microRNAs. He is the proponent of the MEKRE93 pathway, as the universal axis that regulates metamorphosis in insects, and the Broad-complex hypothesis, which explains its evolution. Prolific author, Xavier Belles has published 318 scientific papers and 11 books, and has been awarded the Maurice and Therese Pic Prize (Entomological Society of France, 1985), Scientific Literature Prize (Catalan Foundation for Research, 2003), House of Sciences Award (A Coruña Town Hall, 2009), Narcís Monturiol Medal (Catalan Government, 2019). He is Honorary Member of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology, and Academician of the Institute for Catalan Studies, the Royal Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences of Spain, and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The ideas of metamorphosis through time
2. Life cycles and modes of metamorphosis
3. Embryo development and metamorphosis
4. Postembryonic development. Molting
5. Hormones involved in the regulation of metamorphosis
6. Molecular mechanisms of hormonal action
7. The role of microRNAs in the regulation of metamorphosis
8. The origin of hemimetaboly
9. The evolution of metamorphosis

Rezensionen

"One of the highlights of this volume is the postulation of hypotheses and some potential ways to test them. The epilogue includes the author s wish list of experiments/data to address knowledge gaps. The book provides a critical compilation of data and inspiration for future endeavors from entomologists, physiologists, and cell and molecular biologists. It is my hope that new techniques and technological advances will allow our ecological and molecular understanding of one of the most fantastic transformations in animal history." --The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Xavier Belles is well-known in the field of international metamorphosis research. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. The evoluition of it has also made it the most diverse group of organisms. Insect Metamorphosis can provide insect taxonomy, developmental biology, physiology and evolutionary biology research." --Acta Entomologica Sinica

"It is not a text for the whole public,but if you want to understand as deeply as possible the miracle of metamorphosis and that the beautiful monarch butterfly that flies thousands of miles is the same individual as the caterpillar that just think about food, this is your book." --Metode

"Insect Metamorphosis begins with a review on the interest that the metamorphosis has awakened throughout the history and scientific attempts to describe and explain it. Xavier Bellés's book is so complete and so multidimensional, that is already and will be for many years a volume essential for all those interested in obtaining a complete view of the evolution, development and function of insects through research on the evolution of their life cycles and, in particular, of metamorphosis." --Bulletin of the Spanish Society of Evolutionary Biology

"As a critical scientist, Belles is well aware that the book answers many important questions on insect metamorphosis, but many are still open, and even more are and will be raised in the coming decades, especially in emergent fields of research, such as epigenetics and comparative genomics. While certainly true, there is one point in which I disagree with Belles, and that is the last sentence of the Epilogue, where he states that with a bit of luck, we can expect that this book will become outdated pretty soon. I don't think so, rather, this is a book that I will still want to reread in decades to come." --J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol)