Invertebrate-Microbial Interactions : : Ingested Fungal Enzymes in Arthropod Biology /

Invertebrate-Microbial Interactions : : Ingested Fungal Enzymes in Arthropod Biology / / Michael M. Martin.

Arthropods that eat wood, foliage, and detritus have difficulty in digesting the cellulose in their food. A remarkable biological mechanism allows some species to overcome this problem: in eating fungal tissue they ingest cellulolytic enzymes that allow them to exploit the potential nutritive value...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Martin, Michael M.,
MitwirkendeR:
Eisner, Thomas,
Meinwald, Jerrold,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1987
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Chemical Ecology : 32
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1. The Digestion of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides; Insect- Microbial Interactions; and Symbiosis
  • 2. Acquired Enzymes in the Fungus-Growing Termite Macrotermes natalensis
  • 3. Acquired Enzymes in the Siricid Woodwasp Sirey cyaneus
  • 4. Acquired Enzymes in Detritivores
  • 5. Acquired Enzymes in Cerambycid Beetles
  • 6. The Symbiosis between the Attine Ants and the Fungi They Culture in Their Nests
  • References
  • Index

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