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Advances in Insect Physiology.

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Advances in Insect Physiology, Volume 68 in the series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Sections in this new release include The immune and non-immune defenses of aphids, Ecology, Evolution, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jurenka, Russell
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Russell Jurenka
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2025.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Advances in Insect Physiology Series.
Subjects:
Insects > Physiology.
Insectes > Physiologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Advances in Insect Physiology
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter One: The immune and non-immune defenses of aphids
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Immune defenses of aphids
  • 2.1 Aphids lack a lot of immune genes, especially the genes coding for all AMPs and key compositions in the IMD pathway
  • 2.2 Aphids do have effective immune responses and immune pathways
  • 2.2.1 Cellular responses
  • 2.2.2 Melanization
  • 2.2.3 Reactive oxygen/nitrogen species
  • 2.2.4 Immune pathways
  • 2.2.4.1 JNK pathway
  • 2.2.4.2 Toll pathway
  • 2.2.4.3 JAK/STAT pathway
  • 3 Non-immune defenses of aphids
  • 3.1 Symbiotic bacteria protect aphids against pathogens and parasitoids
  • 3.2 Fecundity compensation
  • 3.3 Visual detection and avoidance
  • 3.4 Transgenerational wing induction
  • 3.5 The release and olfactory perception of alarm pheromones, as well as the perception of danger odors
  • 4 Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author contributions
  • Competing interests
  • References
  • Chapter Two: Gustatory socioecology: The evolution, ecology, and mechanisms of taste in eusocial insects
  • 1 Introduction: The socioecology and sociobiology of gustation
  • 2 The sensory biology of social insect taste
  • 2.1 Defining gustation
  • 2.2 Approaches to gustatory socioecology
  • 2.3 Conservation of mechanisms in the evolution of gustation
  • 3 Insect gustatory physiology
  • 3.1 Gustatory sensilla and neurons
  • 3.2 Taste receptors
  • 4 Chemical ecology and food choice
  • 5 Taste evolution
  • 5.1 Receptor repertoires and evolution
  • 5.2 What drives taste evolution in social insects?
  • 6 Cooperative foraging, communal nutrition, and gustation
  • 7 Social evolution and the elaboration of taste mechanisms
  • 7.1 Division of labor and taste
  • 7.1.1 Gustation and adaptive radiation
  • 7.2 Taste, colony size, and metabolism.
  • 8 Agricultural social insects as models of gustatory evolution
  • 9 Conclusions and future directions
  • References
  • Chapter Three: Physiology of the tick midgut
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Blood-feeding strategies in hard and soft ticks
  • 2.1 Feeding and digestive phases of hard ticks
  • 2.2 Feeding and digestive phases of soft ticks
  • 2.3 Peritrophic matrix
  • 2.4 Future directions in the investigation of the tick midgut anatomy
  • 3 Uptake, trafficking and intracellular processing of blood proteins in tick gut
  • 3.1 Hemolysis and hemoglobin crystallization
  • 3.2 Heterophagy
  • 3.3 Intracellular proteolysis of blood proteins
  • 4 Heme and iron biology in ticks
  • 4.1 Heme acquisition and storage in the midgut
  • 4.2 Inter-tissue transport of heme
  • 4.3 Impact of heme availability on tick physiology and reproduction
  • 4.4 Iron metabolism in the tick gut
  • 4.5 Future directions and implications in the heme/iron metabolism in ticks
  • 5 The immune system in the tick midgut
  • 5.1 Midgut defensins
  • 5.2 Domesticated amidase effectors
  • 5.3 Other potential AMPs in the tick midgut
  • 5.4 Immune signaling in the tick midgut
  • 5.5 Redox balance in maintenance bacteria hemostasis in tick midgut
  • 6 Interactions of the tick midgut with microorganisms and transmitted pathogens
  • 6.1 Borrelia spp
  • 6.2 Anaplasma spp
  • 6.3 Babesia spp
  • 6.4 Tick midgut microbiome
  • 7 Advent of 'omics' technologies in the research of tick midgut physiology
  • 7.1 Uncovering the mialomes of ticks
  • 7.2 Future directions: Integrating multi-omics approaches
  • 8 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter Four: The Drosophila melanogaster immune response to the entomopathogenic bacteria Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus
  • 1 The Drosophila melanogaster innate immune system
  • 2 The entomopathogenic bacteria Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus.
  • 3 Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus toxins and virulence factors
  • 4 The Drosophila melanogaster humoral immune response to Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus
  • 5 The Drosophila melanogaster cellular immune response to Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus
  • 6 The Drosophila melanogaster melanization response to Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus
  • References
  • Back Cover.