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Biology and Ecology of Aphids (Hardcover)
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Biology and Ecology of Aphids (Hardcover)
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Most people know of aphids as garden pests, infesting the soft
green tissues of plants in vast numbers and killing them by sucking
out the sap. Indeed, among the 4000 or so known species of aphids
about 250 are pests, and in temperate regions several are
economically important agricultural pests that damage crops
directly during feeding or act as vectors for plant pathogens. But
aphids are also important model organisms in evolutionary biology
and ecology because they combine a number of unique features such
as complex life cycles involving the development of morphological
distinct phenotypes (polyphenism), sexual and asexual reproduction
strategies and changes of host plants. Aphids can also be regarded
as holobionts because they are colonized by obligate and
facultative microbes which enable them to feed exclusively on
phloem sap and influence their resistance against pathogens,
parasitoids or environmental stress. This book combines fundamental
information about aphids with chapters addressing state-of-the-art
research in topics such as aphid-related phylogeny, genome biology,
epigenetics and chemical ecology.
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