Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes / / Angela E. Douglas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Douglas, Angela E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 70 b/w illus. 13 tables.

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbesInsects and Their Beneficial Microbes is an authoritative and accessible synthesis of insect associations with beneficial microorganisms. Angela Douglas distills the vast literature in entomology and microbiology, as well as the burgeoning microbiome literature, to explore the full scope of insect-microbial interactions and their applications to real-world problems in agriculture and medicine.Douglas investigates how insects acquire and support their microbial partners, and examines how microorganisms contribute to insect nutrition, the defense against natural enemies, and the detoxification of natural allelochemicals and chemical insecticides. She analyzes how beneficial microbes can be harnessed to solve real-world problems in insect pest management, including strategies to suppress the transmission of viruses and microbial disease agents by mosquitoes and other insects. She also addresses the use of insects as biomedical models for effective microbial therapies treating a range of chronic human diseases, and considers how knowledge of insect-microbial interactions can promote the health of beneficial insects, especially in the context of environmental pollutants and climate change.Insects and Their Beneficial Microbes provides a much-needed conceptual framework for the growing discipline of insect-microbial interactions, and offers a wealth of insights into insect symbioses from molecular, physiological, ecological, and evolutionary perspectives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Diversity of Insects and Their Microbial Symbionts -- 2 The Diversity of Insect-Microbial Associations -- 3 How Insects Acquire and Control Their Microbial Symbionts -- 4 Microbial Services -- 5 Harnessing Microbial Symbionts to Manage Insect Pests and Vectors of Disease -- 6 The Insect Microbiome as a Biomedical Model -- 7 Priorities for the Study of Insect-Microbial Associations -- References -- Index -- A Note on the Type