Principles of Insect Pathology

✍ Scribed by Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 557
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Principles of Insect Pathology, a text written from a pathological viewpoint, is intended for graduate-level students and researchers with a limited background in microbiology and in insect diseases. The book explains the importance of insect diseases and illuminates the complexity and diversity of insect-microbe relationships. Separate sections are devoted to

• the major insect pathogens, their characteristics, and their life cycles
• the homology that exists among invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant pathogens
• the humoral and cellular defense systems of the host insect as well as the evasive and suppressive activities of insect disease agents
• the structure and function of passive barriers
• the heterogeneity in host susceptibility to insect diseases and associated toxins
• the mechanisms regulating the spread and persistence of diseases in insects.

Principles of Insect Pathology combines the disciplines of microbiology (virology, bacteriology, mycology, protozoology), pathology, and immunology within the context of the insect host, providing a format which is understandable to entomologists, microbiologists, and comparative pathologists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Insect-Pathogen Relationships....Pages 1-30
General Features of Viral Disease Agents....Pages 31-64
Major Groups of Insect Viruses....Pages 65-110
Baculoviruses....Pages 111-146
Characteristics of the Pathogenic Prokaryotes....Pages 147-175
Insect Pathogenic Bacteria....Pages 177-216
Bacillus thuringiensis : Producer of Potent Insecticidal Toxins....Pages 217-257
General Properties of Fungal Pathogens....Pages 259-286
Entomopathogenic Fungi: “Perfect” Phyla....Pages 287-319
Entomopathogenic Fungi: Fungi Imperfecti....Pages 321-364
Insect Pathogenic Protozoa....Pages 365-398
Phylum Microsporidia....Pages 399-437
Insect Immune Defense System, Part I: Innate Defense Reactions....Pages 439-468
Insect Immune Defense System, Part II: The Recognition of Nonself....Pages 469-497
Insect Immune Defense System, Part III: Prophenoloxidase Cascade and Post-Attachment Processes of Phagocytosis....Pages 499-537
Back Matter....Pages 539-550

✦ Subjects

Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Pathology; Plant Sciences; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology; Animal Biochemistry