Aphids in a new millenium [[electronic resource] /] / Jean Christophe Simon ... [et al.], editors

• Pubblicazione: Paris, : Institut national de la recherche agronomique, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (556 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Aphids
• Altri autori: SimonJean Christophe
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Préface; In Memoriam : Francois Leclant (1934-2001); CHAPTER 1: APHID BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY; Past and future of aphid biology (invited paper); Are aphid soldiers sterile?; Post-copula guarding and sex ratios in aphids; Alate aphid diversity and habitat selection, in east central Illinois, USA; EXAMINE (EXploitation of Aphid Monitoring In Europe): an European thematic network for the study of global change impacts on aphids; The conservation biology of aphids: the importance of host plant range ; State of Damson-hop aphid (Phorodon humuli Schrank) exules population on hops in the years 1986-2000Presence of a secondary endosymbiotic bacterium suppresses growth, development and cell number of the host aphid; Physiological interactions in the pea aphid bacteriocyte symbiosis under parasitism by the Braconid Aphidius ervi; Analysis of age polyethism in a soldier-producing aphid, Tuberaphis styraci, on an artificial diet; A general mechanism for predator- and parasitoid- induced dispersal in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum ; Notes on the biology and ecology of Aphis spiraecola Patch in Northern Morelos, MexicoSecondary endosymbiotic microbiota of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, in natural populations; Host plant specificity, life cycle and morphometric analysis of Ribes-inhabiting species of the genus Aphis L; Wing induction by natural enemies: cues, mechanisms and adaptive value; CHAPTER 2: TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS AND FAUNISTICS; The subgeneric classification of Brachycaudus van der Goot; Aphids of fruit trees in Tunisia ; Host plant association and utilization of gall forming aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) in western and northwest HimalayasUroleucon Mordvilko (Homoptera: Aphididae) from the Indian subcontinent; Preliminary study of aphid diversity in China: taxonomic and geographic variation; Species composition of Florida aphid fauna; The history of the studies on aphid palaeontology and their bearing on the evolutionary history of aphids; The aphid fauna of the Argentinean Tierra del Fuego; What is the (aphid) subspecies?; Host range and population density of Aphis fabae Scop. in Sinai Governorates, Egypt ; The life cycle of Metathoracaphis isensis Sorin, 1987 (Hemiptera, Aphididae) with descriptions of sexuales and eggsThe species complex of aphids closely related to Dysaphis devecta (Walker). (Homoptera, Aphididae): Possible ways of its formation; The case for Aphis solanella being a good species; CHAPTER 3 : GENETICS, POPULATION BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; Prospects in aphid genetics (invited paper); Evolution of sex allocation in the genus Tetraneura (Aphididae: Pemphiginae); Male mating performance in Myzus persicae (Sulzer) ; Toxicological and molecular characterization of Pyrethroid knockdown resistance (kdr) in the peach-potato aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer)
• Titolo autorizzato: Aphids in a new millenium
• ISBN: 2-7592-0247-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778588303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science update (Paris, France)