Insect Development and Evolution / / Bruce S. Heming.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Heming, Bruce S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 77 charts, 88 halftones, 194 line drawings, 7 tables

Life scientists are increasingly drawn to the study of comparative evolutionary biology. Insect Development and Evolution is the first synthesis of knowledge of insect development within an evolutionary framework and the first to survey the genetic, molecular, and whole organism literature. Bruce S. Heming provides a detailed introduction to the embryonic and postembryonic development of insects. Topics include:* reproductive systems,* male and female gametogenesis,* sperm transfer and use,* fertilization,* sex determination,* parthenogenesis,* embryogenesis,* postembryogenesis,* hormones,* and the role of ontogeny in insect evolution.Summaries for each of these topics cover structural events; comparative aspects (inserted on a phylogeny of the insect orders); and hormonal, genetic, and molecular causal analyses.Insect Development and Evolution treats examples throughout the hexapods with frequent reference to the evolution and development of other invertebrates. It also compares insects to vertebrates and places insect development into context with fossil evidence and earth history. Heming's book will become an essential tool for students and teachers of entomology. It will also interest insect systematists and paleontologists, insect behavioral ecologists, insect pathologists, applied entomologists, developmental and invertebrate biologists, and all scientists who use Drosophila as a model organism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Male Reproductive System and Spermatogenesis -- Chapter 2. The Female Reproductive System and Oogenesis -- Chapter 3. Sperm Transfer. Allocation. and Use -- Chapter 4. Sex Determination -- Chapter 5. Parthenogenesis -- Chapter 6. Early Embryogenesis -- Chapter 7. Specification of the Body Plan in Insect Embryos -- Chapter 8. Organogenesis -- Chapter 9. Postembryonic Development and Life History -- Chapter 10. Molting and Metamorphosis -- Chapter 11. Specification of the Adult Body Pattern -- Chapter 12. Hormones, Molting, and Metamorphosis -- Chapter 13. Ontogeny and Hexapod Evolution -- References -- Index