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Insect Diapause (Hardcover)
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Insect Diapause (Hardcover)
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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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