Author: Michael D. Greenfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: arthropod, communication, evolution, mechanisms, receivers, signalers
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-02-28
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195134524
ISBN-13: 9780195134520
In most terrestrial and aquatic habitats, the vast majority of animals transmitting and receiving communicative signals are arthropods. This book presents the story of how this important group of animals use pheromones, sound, vibration, and light for sexual and social communication. Because of their small to minute body size most arthropods have problems sending and receiving acoustic and optical information, each of which have their own severe constraints. Because of these restraints they have developed chemical signaling which is not similarly limited by scale. Presenting the latest theoret
Authors:Timothy Gibb, Christian Oseto,
Publisher: Academic Pre
Keywords: field, techniques, laboratory, identification, collection, arthropod
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-11-23
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0123695457
ISBN-13: 9780123695451
Arthropods are the most numerous and diverse group of animals and studying these organisms requires the use of specialized equipment and specific procedures. Thistext describes effective methods and equipment for collecting, identifying, rearing, examining, and preserving insects and mites, and for storing and caring for specimens in collections. It also provides instructions for the construction of many kinds of collecting equipment, traps, rearing cages, and storage units, as well as updated and illustrated keys for identification of the classes of arthropods and the orders of insects. Such
Author: Nicholas James Strausfeld
Publisher: Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press
Keywords: historical, significance, elegance, functional, brains, evolution, arthropod
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2012-01-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0674046331
ISBN-13: 9780674046337
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin proposed that an ants brain, no larger than a pins head, must be sophisticated to accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of versatile brains which, in a sense, think.Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental insights into how brains process and organize sensory information to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality. Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of t
Authors:Isaac Ishaaya, A. Rami Horowitz,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: resistance, management, application, pests, control, arthropod, biorational
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 9048123151
ISBN-13: 9789048123155
This book deals with various approaches for arthropod pest control. One approach is based on disrupting the activity of specific biochemical sites such as neuropeptides, ecdysone and juvenile hormones or tyramine, octopamine and GABA receptors. Another approach is the use of natural products obtained from tropical plants and other biological systems for pest control. Finally, the exploiting of genetically modified insects, plants and symbionts along with male/female call disturbance are important novel tools in crop protection. Countermeasures for resistance to biorational control agents usin
Authors:Geoffrey M. Coast, Simon G. Webster,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: biology, seminar, series, experimental, society, advances, arthropod, endocrinology, recent
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-03-13
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0521591139
ISBN-13: 9780521591133
Arthropods form the largest and most varied assemblage of organisms on earth. They are notable as agricultural pests, as vectors of disease and as a source of food. Knowledge in the area of arthropod endocrinology has increased greatly in the past decade with the advent of improved techniques for the isolation and study of the hormones themselves, revealing fascinating relationships among the endocrine systems of the various arthropod groups. This collection brings together in a single volume contributions from many of the leading workers in the field, providing in-depth accounts of the curren
Authors:David L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: conservation, biodiversity, topics, arthropod, diversity
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1402052030
ISBN-13: 9781402052033
This collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers focuses on the diversity and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit virtually every recess and plane and feature in virtually every food web on the planet. Highlighting issues ranging from large-scale disturbance to local management, from spatial heterogeneity to temporal patterns, these papers reflect exciting new research and take the reader to some of the most biodiverse corners of the planet.
Authors:Paul M. Tuskes, Michael M. Collins, James P. Tuttle,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: canada, states, cornell, series, biology, arthropod, united, saturniidae, moths, silk, north, america, history, natural, wild
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1996-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0801431301
ISBN-13: 9780801431302
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