Insect Ultrastructure

Volume 2

Buch | Softcover

650 Seiten

2011
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4612-9685-0 (ISBN)

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Cell biology is moving at breakneck speed, and many of the results from studies on insects have helped in understanding some of the central problems of biology. The time is therefore ripe to provide the scientific community with a series of up-to-date, well illustrated reviews of selected aspects of the sub microscopic cytology of insects. The topics we have included fall into four general groups: seven chapters deal with gametogenesis, four concern develop ing somatic cells, seventeen chapters describe specialized tissues and organs, and three chapters cover cells in pathological states. These accounts are illustrated with over 600 electron micrographs. The more than 1100 pages in the two volumes of Insect Ultrastructure combined labors of 49 dedicated contributors from II countries. represent the These authors have digested and critically summarized a very large body of information, and some measure of this effort can be gained from consulting the bibliographies that close each of the 31 chapters. These contain 2400 publica tions authored by 1500 different scientists. However, before we congratulate ourselves on the advanced state of our knowledge, it is worth remembering that representatives of less than 0.01 % of the known species of insects have been examined with the electron microscope.

I. The Ultrastructure of Developing Cells.- 1 The Ultrastructure and Development of the Telotrophic Ovary.- 2 Early Embryogenesis of Bombyx mori.- 3 Electron Microscopic Mapping and Ultrastructure of Drosophila Polytene Chromosomes.- II. The Ultrastructure of the Development, Differentiation, and Functioning of Specialized Tissues and Organs.- 4 The Structure of Insect Muscles.- 5 The Structure and Development of the Vacuolar System in the Fat Body of Insects.- 6 The Ultrastructure of the Digestive and Excretory Organs.- 7 The Ultrastructure of Interacting Endocrine and Target Cells.- 8 The Fine Structure of Insect Glands Secreting Waxy Substances.- 9 The Ultrastructure and Functions of the Silk Gland Cells of Bombyx mori.- 10 Structure and Development of Male Accessory Glands in Insects.- 11 The Photoreceptor Cells.- 12 The Glial Cells of Insects.- 13 Mechanosensitive and Olfactory Sensilla of Insects.- 14 The Cytopathology of Baculovirus Infections in Insects.- III. The Ultrastructure of Cells in Pathological States.- 15 Comparative Ultrastructure of Wild-Type and Tumorous Cells of Drosophila.- 16 The Cellular Defense System of Drosophila melanogaster.- Author Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.10.2011
Zusatzinfo	228 Illustrations, black and white; 650 p. 228 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
Schlagworte	classification • Development • Drosophila • Embryo • Glia • Morphology • Neuron • Organe • Orthoptera • Plasma membrane • tissue
ISBN-10	1-4612-9685-4 / 1461296854
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-9685-0 / 9781461296850
Zustand	Neuware