Insect hydrocarbons
Subtitle: biology, biochemistry, and chemical ecology
By: [edited by] Gary J. Blomquist, Anne-Geneviève Bagnères
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521898140
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : history and overview of insect hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères; title: Structure and analysis of insect hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist; title: Biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons / Gary J. Blomquist; title: Molecular biology and genetics of hydrocarbon production / Claude Wicker-Thomas and Thomas Chertemps; title: Site of synthesis, mechanism of transport and selective deposition of hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and Gary J. Blomquist; title: Cuticular lipids and water balance / Allen G. Gibbs and Subhash Rajpurohit; title: Chemical taxonomy with hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and Claude Wicker-Thomas; title: Chemical synthesis of insect cuticular hydrocarbons / Jocelyn G. Millar; title: Oxygenated derivatives of hydrocarbons / James S. Buckner; title: Perception and olfaction of cuticular compounds / Mamiko Ozaki and Ayako Wada-Katsumata; title: Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons / Jelle S. van Zweden and Patrizia d'Ettorre; title: Cuticular hydrocarbon cues in the formation and maintenance of insect social groups / Michael Greene; title: Hydrocarbon profiles indicate fertility and dominance status in ant, bee, and wasp colonies / Jürgen Liebig; title: Chemical deception/mimicry using cuticular hydrocarbons / Anne-Geneviève Bagnères and M. Cristina Lorenzi; title: Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Diptera / Jean-François Ferveur and Matthew Cobb; title: Contact recognition pheromones in spiders and scorpions / Marie Trabalon and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères; title: Hydrocarbons as contact pheromones of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) / Matthew D. Ginzel; title: Polyene hydrocarbons, epoxides, and related compounds as components of lepidopteran pheromone blends / Jocelyn Millar; title: Volatile hydrocarbon pheromones from beetles / Robert J. Bartelt; title: Future directions in hydrocarbon research / Abraham Hefetz, Claude Wicker-Thomas and Anne-Geneviève Bagnères.