Insect symbiosis /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bourtzis, Kostas, Miller, Thomas A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, [2003-]
Series:Contemporary topics in entomology series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • v.1. Insect symbiosis : an introduction
  • Buchnera bacteria and other symbionts of aphids
  • Comparative genomics of insect endosymbionts
  • Symbiosis in tsetse
  • Endosymbiosis in the weevil of the genus Sitophilus : genetic, physiological, and molecular interactions among associated genomes
  • Rhodnius prolixus and its symbiont, Rhodococcus rhodnii : a model for paratransgenic control of disease transmission
  • Bark beetle-fungus symbioses
  • Symbiotic relationships of tephritids
  • Symbionts affecting termite behavior
  • Symbiosis of microsporidia and insects
  • A new bacterium from the cytophaga-flacobacterium-bacteroides phylum that causes sex-ration distortion
  • Inherited microorganisms that selectively kill male hosts : the hidden players of insect evolution?
  • Wolbachia pipientis : impotent by association
  • Cytoplasmic incompatibility
  • Parthenogenesis associated with Wolbachia
  • Insights into Wolbachia obligatory symbiosis
  • Symbiosis and the origin of species
  • Discovery of symbiont-host horizontal genome transfer : a beetle carrying two bacterial and one chromosomal Wolbachia endosymbionts
  • v.2. Diversity of prokaryote-insect associations within the Sternorrhyncha (psyllids, whiteflies, aphids, mealybugs)
  • An alpha-proteobacterium invades the mitochondria of the tick Ixodes ricinus
  • Inherited Bacteriodetes symbionts in arthropods
  • Complexity of insect-fungal associations : exploring the influence of microorganisms on attine the ant-fungus symbiosis
  • The evolutionary origin and maintenance of the mutualistic symbiosis between termites and fungi
  • Mollicutes associated with arthropods and plants
  • A newly sidcovered virus manipulates superparasitism behavior in a parasitoid wasp
  • Symbiont culture
  • Comparative genomics in Buchnera aphidicola, primary endosymbiont of aphids
  • Wolbachia genomics : accelerating our understanding of a pervaxive symbiosis
  • The role of Wolbachia in the biology and pathogenesis of filariasis
  • Paternal sex ratio chromosomes in parasitoid wasps : an overview of the ins and outs of these extremely selfish B chromosomes
  • Insecticidal bacterial effectors from symbionts of insect-killing nematodes
  • Insect pest control using Wolbachia and/or radiation
  • Paratransgenesis applied to control insect-transmitted plant pathogens : the Pierce's disease case
  • v.3. Insect symbionts and molecular phylogenetics
  • Self-nonself recognition in symbiotic interactions
  • Is symbiosis evolution influenced by the pleiotropic role of programmed cell death in immunity and development?
  • Pleiotropy of adaptative genes : how insecticide resistance genes mediate outcomes of symbiosis
  • Capsule-transmitted obligate gut bacterium of plataspid stinkbugs : a novel model system for insect symbiosis studies
  • Endosymbiont that broadens food plant range of host insect
  • Insect-bacterium mutualism without vertical transmission
  • Mutualism revealed by symbiont genomics and bacteriocyte transcriptomics
  • Endosymbionts of lice
  • Symbiotic Rickettsia
  • Structure and function of the bacterial community associated with the Mediterranean fruit fly
  • Feminizing Wolbachia and the evolution of sex determination in isopods
  • Wolbachia-induced sex reversal in Lepidoptera
  • Wolbachia and Anopheles mosquitoes
  • Bacterial symbionts in Anopheles spp. and other mosquito vectors
  • Symbiotic microorganisms in leafhopper and planthopper vectors of phytoplasmas in grapevine
  • Paratransgenesis in termites
  • Insect facultative symbionts : biology, culture, and genetic modification