Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge research on this issue. Findings from international experts reveal possible new ways to control disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests worldwide. An examination of Wo
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Insect Symbiosis
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Foreword
- Insect Symbiosis: A Personal Journey
- The Editors
- Contributors
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Insect Symbiosis: An Introduction
- Chapter 2. Bacteria and Other Symbionts of Aphids
- Chapter 3. Comparative Genomics of Insect Endosymbionts
- Chapter 4. Symbiosis in Tsetse
- Chapter 5. Endosymbiosis in the Weevil of the Genus Sitophilus: Genetic, Physiological, and Molecular Interactions among Associated Genomes
- Chapter 6. Rhodnius prolixus and Its Symbiont, Rhodococcus rhodnii: A Model for Paratransgenic Control of Disease Transmission
- Chapter 7. Bark Beetle–Fungus Symbioses
- Chapter 8. Symbiotic Relationships of Tephritids
- Chapter 9. Symbionts Affecting Termite Behavior
- Chapter 10. Symbiosis of Microsporidia and Insects
- Chapter 11. A New Bacterium from the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium- Bacteroides Phylum That Causes Sex-Ratio Distortion
- Chapter 12. Inherited Microorganisms That Selectively Kill Male Hosts: The Hidden Players of Insect Evolution?
- Chapter 13. Wolbachia pipientis: Impotent by Association
- Chapter 14. Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
- Chapter 15. Parthenogenesis Associated with Wolbachia
- Chapter 16. Insights into Wolbachia Obligatory Symbiosis
- Chapter 17. Symbiosis and the Origin of Species
- Chapter 18. Discovery of Symbiont–Host Horizontal Genome Transfer: A Beetle Carrying Two Bacterial and One Chromosomal Wolbachia Endosymbionts
- Index
- Back cover
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