Textbook
By: Drion G Boucias and Jacquelyn C Pendland
537 pages, Illus, tabs, SEMs
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A textbook which provides introductory material, extensive presentation of the microbe-insect interaction, and details on the identification, symptomatology, and isolation of insect diseases.
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Section I General - historical overview; insect-microbe relationships; introduction to insect pathogens. Section II Pathology of insect diseases - insect viruses; rickettsia and bacteria; mycoplasma and spiroplasma; protozoa and microspora; fungi. Section III insect defense mechanisms - insect immunity. Section IV disease ecology - epizootiology; resistance. Section V Microbial control - conventional microbial control strategics; recombinant microbes and transgenic plants. Section VI specialized techniques in insect pathology - detection and isolation of insect pathogens; diagnosis and characterization of entomopathogens; propagation and bioassay of insect diseases.
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Textbook
By: Drion G Boucias and Jacquelyn C Pendland
537 pages, Illus, tabs, SEMs
'...the treatment is modern and mainly uses computerized information. The rich compilation of actually used terminology...will help molecular biologists and biochemists understand insect pathology- et vice versa. ...recommend the book as a "door opener" to modern insect pathology provided that it is used in conjunction with a classical text book on insect pathology.' European Journal of Entomology, 97 (2000)