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This textbook is designed to compile general microbiology, insect pathology, microbial control, and epizootiology of insect diseases into a format which is understandable to the graduate entomology student, who typically has little or no background in microbiology. It is a teaching textbook providing introductory material, extensive presentation of the microbe-insect interaction, and details on the identification, symptomatology, and isolation of insect diseases. This book should be of interest to graduate entomologists and students taking courses in insect pathology.

Table of Contents:
1. Insect-Pathogen Relationships.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Sites of Pathogen Entry.- 3. Insect Integument.- 4. Insect Alimentary Tract.- 5. Spread of Pathogens in the Host Insect.- 6. Survival and Replication of Pathogens in the Insect.- 7. Mechanisms of Cell and Tissue Damage.- 8. Pathogen Egress and Transmission.- 2. General Features of Viral Disease Agents.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Morphology of Insect Viruses.- 3. Composition of Insect Viruses.- 4. Insect Viruses as Etiological Agents of Disease.- 5. Viral Pathogenesis.- 3. Major Groups of Insect Viruses.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Group I (dsDNA viruses).- 3. Group II (ssDNA Viruses).- 4. Group III (dsRNA Viruses).- 5. Group IV (+ ssRNA Viruses).- 6. GroupV (- ssRNA Viruses).- 7. Group VI: Retrovirus-like Particles (Insect Transposable Elements).- 4. Baculoviruses.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Structural Components of Baculoviruses.- 3. Gene Organization.- 4. Baculovirus Cell Cycle.- 5. Baculovirus-Insect Associations.- 5. Characteristics of the Pathogenic Prokaryotes.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Bacterial Characteristics.- 3. Bacterial Growth and Metabolism.- 4. Bacterial Genetics.- 5. Detection of Bacterial Pathogens.- 6. Bacterial Pathogenicity.- 6. Insect Pathogenic Bacteria.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Entomopathogenic Gracilicutes.- 3. Entomopathogenic Firmicutes: Gram Positive, Walled Eubacteria.- 4. Tenericutes: The Cell Wall-less Eubacteria.- 7. Bacillus Thuringiensis: Producer of Potent Insecticidal Toxins.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Isolation and Detection of Bacillus thuringiensis.- 3. Exoenzymes and Exotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis.- 4. Structure and Diversity of the Delta (?) Endotoxins.- 5. Genetics of Delta Endotoxin Synthesis.- 6. Biosynthesis of Delta Endotoxins.- 7. Mode of Action of the Delta Endotoxins.- 8. Genetic Engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis.- 8. General Properties of Fungal Pathogens.- 1. Introduction to the Fungal Kingdom.- 2. Fungal Characteristics.- 3. Structure and Formation of the Fungal Cell Wall.- 4. The Entomogenous Fungi.- 5. History.- 6. Fungal Disease Symptoms.- 7. The Non-Pathogenic Entomogenous Fungi.- 8. Fungal Pathogenicity.- 9. Pathogenicity and the Infection Pathway.- 9. Entomopathogenic Fungi: “Perfect” Phyla.- 1. The Entomopathogenic Water Molds and Chytrids.- 2. The True Fungi.- 10. Entomopathogenic Fungi: Fungi Imperfecti.- 1. Hyphomycetes.- 2. Nomuraea rileyi: A Dimorphic Hyphomycete.- 3. Beauveria bassiana: A Toxin-Producing Biocontrol Agent.- 4. Metarhizium anisopliae: Cuticle-Degrading Enzymes.- 5. Genus Paecilomyces.- 6. Verticillium lecanii: A Mycopathogen of Homopterans.- 7. Culicinomyces clavisporus: A Hyphomycete of Vector Mosquitos.- 8. Sorosporella-Syngliocladium: Alternate States of a Hyphomycete.- 9. Hirsutella thompsonii, Tolypocladium, and Aspergillus: Production of Secondary Metabolites.- 10. Coelomycetes.- 11. The Entomopathogenic Fungi: Conclusions.- 11. Insect Pathogenic Protozoa.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Phylum Apicomplexa.- 3. Phylum Ciliophora.- 4. Phylum Rhizopoda.- 5. Phylum Zoomastigina.- 12. Phylum Microsporidia.- 1. Introduction.- 2. General Structure and Biology.- 3. The Identification and Systematics of Microsporidia.- 4. Representative Genera of Insect Microsporidia.- 13. Insect Immune Defense System, Part I: Innate Defense Reactions.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Invertebrate Members of the Ig Supergene Family.- 3. Innate Immunity.- 14. Insect Immune Defense System, Part II: the Recognition of Nonself.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Phagocytic Cells.- 3. The Phagocytic Process.- 15. Insect Immune Defense System, Part III: Prophenoloxidase Cascade and Post-Attachment Processes of Phagocytosis.- 1. Insect Phenoloxidase.- 2. Phenoloxidase-Related Specific Immune Defense Activities.- 3. Post-Attachment Processes of Phagocytosis.- 4. Microbial Evasion of Cellular Immune Response.- 5. Summary.

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`...the treatment is modern and mainly uses computerized information. The rich compilation of actually used terminology...will help molecular biologists and biochemists understand insect pathology- et vice versa. ...recommend the book as a "door opener" to modern insect pathology provided that it is used in conjunction with a classical text book on insect pathology.' European Journal of Entomology, 97 (2000)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780412035913
  • Publisher: Chapman and Hall
  • Publisher Imprint: Chapman and Hall
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 550
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 041203591X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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