Insect diapause:

Our highly seasonal world restricts insect activity to brief portions of the year. This feature necessitates a sophisticated interpretation of seasonal changes and enactment of mechanisms for bringing development to a halt and then reinitiating it when the inimical season is past. The dormant state...

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1. Verfasser: Denlinger, David L. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Our highly seasonal world restricts insect activity to brief portions of the year. This feature necessitates a sophisticated interpretation of seasonal changes and enactment of mechanisms for bringing development to a halt and then reinitiating it when the inimical season is past. The dormant state of diapause serves to bridge the unfavourable seasons, and its timing provides a powerful mechanism for synchronizing insect development. This book explores how seasonal signals are monitored and used by insects to enact specific molecular pathways that generate the diapause phenotype. The broad perspective offered here scales from the ecological to the molecular and thus provides a comprehensive view of this exciting and vibrant research field, offering insights on topics ranging from pest management, evolution, speciation, climate change and disease transmission, to human health, as well as analogies with other forms of invertebrate dormancy and mammalian hibernation
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Chapter 1. -- - Confronting the challenges of a seasonal environment -- - Chapter 2. -- - What seasons are being avoided? -- - Chapter 3. -- - Variation in the diapause response -- - Chapter 4. -- The - cost of diapause and some diapause alternatives -- - Chapter 5. -- - Interpreting seasonal cues to program diapause entry -- - Chapter 6. -- - Preparing for diapause -- - Chapter 7. -- The - diapause state -- - Chapter 8. -- - Ending diapause and reinitiating development -- - Chapter 9. -- - Molecular signaling pathways that regulate diapause -- - Chapter 10. -- - Genetic control of diapause -- - Chapter 11. -- - Evolution of diapause -- - Chapter 12. -- - Wider implications
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 454 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108609364
DOI:10.1017/9781108609364