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Titre(s) : Advances in insect physiology. Volume 49 [Texte électronique] / edited by Russell Jurenka

Publication : Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2015

Description matérielle : 1 online resource

Collection : Advances in Insect Physiology ; v. 49

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Autre(s) auteur(s) : Jurenka, Russell. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Insectes -- Physiologie  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  571.157 (23e éd.) = Physiologie des Insectes  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780128025864

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb446402473

Notice n° :  FRBNF44640247 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Front Cover; Advances in Insect Physiology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter One: Evolution of the Mechanisms Underlying Insect Respiratory Gas Exchange; 1. Introduction; 2. The Physics of Gas Exchange; 3. Insect Respiratory Chemoreception Mechanisms; 4. Diversity and Characterisation of Gas Exchange Patterns; 5. Functional Significance and Evolution of Gas Exchange Patterns; 5.1. Adaptive Hypotheses; 5.2. Mechanistic Hypotheses; 5.3. Mathematical Models of Gas Exchange Patterns; 6. Conclusions and Future Directions; Acknowledgement; References.
Chapter Two: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Nutrition in Honey Bees1. Introduction; 2. Nutrients and Digestive Enzymes; 3. Physiological Regulation of Nutrition During Larval Development; 3.1. Effects of Nutrition on Queen-Worker Caste Differentiation; 3.1.1. Nurse Feeding Program; 3.1.2. Larval Developmental Program in Response to Nutrition and Nourishment; 3.1.3. Molecular Signals Regulating Queen-Worker Differentiation; 3.1.4. Environmental and Genetic Components in Worker Larval Development and Health; 3.2. Nutrition-Induced Epigenetic Regulation During Larval Development.
3.2.1. Regulation of DNA Methylation in Larval Development3.2.2. Histone Modification Regulation on Larval Development; 3.2.3. Small Non-Coding RNA Regulation on Larval Development; 4. Nutritional Regulation and Pathways in Adult Development and Behaviour; 4.1. Nutritional Physiology, Nutritional Pathways, and Behaviour; 4.1.1. Nutrition and Age-Related Division of Labour; 4.1.2. Honey Bee Nutrition and Health; 4.1.3. Nutrition and Adult Lifespan; 4.1.4. Honey Bee Habitat and Nutrition; 4.1.5. Nutrition and Honey Bee Diseases; 4.2. Epigenetic Regulations of Nutrition in Adult Stage.
4.2.1. Nutritional Regulation of DNA Methylation Between Queen and Workers4.2.2. Chromatin Marks Link to Caste Determination; 4.2.3. New Discoveries from Non-Coding RNAs in Caste Determination; 5. Conclusion and Future Directions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter Three: Antennal Mechanosensors and Their Evolutionary Antecedents; 1. Introduction; 2. Proprioceptive Structures in Insects; 3. Evolutionary Homology of Legs and Antennae; 4. Insect Legs: Basic Anatomy; 5. Proprioceptors of the Insect Leg; 5.1. Campaniform Sensillae; 5.2. Load Sensing by the CS; 5.3. Femoral Chordotonal Organs.
5.4. Joint Control by the Femoral Chordotonal Organ5.5. Range Fractionation in the Metathoracic Femoral Chordotonal Organ; 5.6. Hair Plates; 5.6.1. Movement and Position Sensing by HPs; 5.6.2. Interactions of the HPs with Other Proprioceptive Organs; 5.6.3. Insect Walking and Motor Patterns; 6. Insect Antennal Mechanosensors; 6.1. Insect Antennae: Basic Anatomy; 6.2. Böhmś Bristles or Antennal HPs; 6.3. Johnstonś Organs; 6.3.1. Neuroanatomy of Johnstonś Organs; 6.3.2. Diversity of Johnstonś Organ-Mediated Behaviours; 6.4. Antennal Reflexes; 6.4.1. Antennal Resistance and Loading Reflexes.