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how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science
"In this book, Elizabeth Davidson shares amazing stories about diseases of insects and other invertebrates important to people - and about the scientists who learned to use those diseases to control pests and create products beneficial to humans. Focusing on insect-microbial interactions crucial to public health, she tells detective stories ranging across global history, from the silkworm farms of nineteenth-century Japan to the research labs of modern America."--Jacket.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease -- 2. Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides -- 3. Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies -- 4. The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system -- 5. Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle -- 6. Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics -- 7. Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay -- 8. Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish -- 9. Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera -- 10. Cloak and dagger : nematodes against insect pests -- 11. Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees -- 12. The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen -- 13. The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust -- 14. Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms -- 15. Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together -- Suggested readdings -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2006