Evolution Of Insect Pests

Author : Ke Chung Kim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471600770
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Insect Pests written by Ke Chung Kim and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-05-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects on insect pests' evolution by evaluating existing theories, documenting case studies of diverse pest species and presenting new concepts regarding the problem of variation and implications for pest management strategies. Leading experts offer contributions which deal with variations in genetic markers and ecologically meaningful traits as well as future perspectives in entomology and biosystematics.

Author : David Grimaldi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110726877X
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of the Insects written by David Grimaldi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.

Author : Scott Richard Shaw
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616361X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planet of the Bugs written by Scott Richard Shaw and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.

Author : Kelley Jean Tilmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520251326
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation written by Kelley Jean Tilmon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume captures the state-of-the-art in the study of insect-plant interactions, and marks the transformation of the field into evolutionary biology. The contributors present integrative reviews of uniformly high quality that will inform and inspire generations of academic and applied biologists. Their presentation together provides an invaluable synthesis of perspectives that is rare in any discipline."--Brian D. Farrell, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University "Tilmon has assembled a truly wonderful and rich volume, with contributions from the lion's share of fine minds in evolution and ecology of herbivorous insects. The topics comprise a fascinating and deep coverage of what has been discovered in the prolific recent decades of research with insects on plants. Fascinating chapters provide deep analyses of some of the most interesting research on these interactions. From insect plant chemistry, behavior, and host shifting to phylogenetics, co-evolution, life-history evolution, and invasive plant-insect interaction, one is hard pressed to name a substantial topic not included. This volume will launch a hundred graduate seminars and find itself on the shelf of everyone who is anyone working in this rich landscape of disciplines."--Donald R. Strong, Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis "Seldom have so many excellent authors been brought together to write so many good chapters on so many important topics in organismic evolutionary biology. Tom Wood, always unassuming and inspired by living nature, would have been amazed and pleased by this tribute."--Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Author : Fritz Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1S/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles written by Fritz Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-11-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a Symposium at the International Congress of Entomology Held in Hamburg. With contributions by numerous experts

Author : Pierre Jolivet
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000951162
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insects and Plants written by Pierre Jolivet and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insects and plants, whether or not they coevolved, have intimate interrelationships. This book concisely yet thoroughly describes these phenomena. In one chapter the salient facts known about carnivorous plants are described. In another, ant and plant relationships are summarized as an introduction to this vast subject. Pollination, of great interest to agriculturists and horticulturists, is briefly explained without the complexities detailed in the massive literature on this topic. Many other subjects are discussed, such as the memory of adult butterflies, which enables them to return to their host plants in the case of the polyphagous species. The book is seeded with such thought-provoking discussions as prostitution among the orchids and botanical indigestion in some plants.

Author : Kelley Tilmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933826
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation written by Kelley Tilmon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. Chapters focus on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organization—individuals, populations, species, and clades. Written by prominent evolutionary biologists, entomologists, and ecologists, the chapters are organized into three sections: Evolution of Populations and Species; Co- and Macroevolutionary Radiation; and Evolutionary Aspects of Pests, Invasive Species, and the Environment. The volume is unified by the idea that understanding the ecological framework of the interactions between herbivorous insects and their host plants is fundamental to understanding their evolution.

Author : Sergeĭ Sergeevich Chetverikov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fundamental Factor of Insect Evolution written by Sergeĭ Sergeevich Chetverikov and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murry Blum
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323145558
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chemical Defenses of Arthropods written by Murry Blum and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical Defenses of Arthropods charts the significant progress in the study of chemical defenses in arthropods, a rapidly expanding area of chemical ecology. The book groups the defensive compounds secreted by arthropods based on their main functionalities and sequentially lists them according to their carbon numbers. Organized into 19 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the defensive exudates of arthropods and how arthropods have exploited these compounds to deter the ubiquitous and omnipresent predators around them. The next chapters introduce the reader to the defensive compounds produced in the exocrine glands of arthropods, ranging from alcohols and ketones to hydrocarbons, carboxylic acids, esters, 1,4-quinones and hydroquinones, lactones, phenols, steroids, and proteinaceous venoms. The book also discusses the taxonomic value of arthropod defensive compounds, with emphasis on factors affecting the composition of defensive secretions and taxonomic correlations that utilize them. Later chapters focus on arthropod biosynthesis of exocrine compounds, how insects tolerate the presence of plant toxins in their diets, and identified defensive compounds in arthropods. The book concludes with an analysis of the properties and characteristic distributions of arthropod natural products, along with their adaptiveness as defensive agents. This book is a valuable resource for biologists and chemists.

Author : Philip S. Callahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Insects written by Philip S. Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: