Research Catalog

Title

Molecular entomology : proceedings of a Monsanto-UCLA symposium held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, April 6-13, 1986 / editor, John H. Law.

Publication

New York : Liss, ©1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Law, John H.
• DuPont-UCLA Symposium on Molecular Strategies for Crop Protection (1986 : Steamboat Springs, Colo.). Molecular strategies for crop protection.

Description

xvii, 500 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

UCLA symposia on molecular and cellular biology ; new ser., v. 49

Uniform Title

UCLA symposia on molecular and cellular biology ; new ser., v. 49.

Subject

• Insects > Molecular aspects > Congresses
• Entomology
• Molecular biology > Congresses
• Insects > Physiology > Congresses
• Entomology
• Molecular Biology
• entomology
• Molecular biology
• Insects > Physiology
• Insects > Molecular aspects
• Insekten
• Molekularbiologie
• Tierphysiologie
• Kongress
• Insectes > Physiologie > Congrès
• Biologie moléculaire > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Companion volume to: Molecular strategies for crop protection.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• From semiochemical to behavior : olfaction in the sphinx moth Manduca sexta / John G. Hildebrand -- Transduction processes in olfactory receptors of moths / Karl-Ernst Kaissling -- Mutations affecting the embryonic development of the peripheral nervous system in Drosophila / Yuh Nung Jan [and others] -- Chemical studies of pheromone catabolism and reception / Glenn D. Prestwich, Richard G. Vogt and Yu-Shin Ding -- Neuroactive substances as probes of central thresholds in sex pheromone perception / Wendell L. Roelofs and Charles E. Linn, Jr. -- Induced changes in sex pheromone biosynthesis of Heliothis moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) / P.E.A. Teal and J.H. Tumlinson -- Identification, reconstitution, and expression of neuronal acetylcholine receptor polypeptides from insects / H. Breer [and others] -- Chemical deterrence of plants / E.A. Bernays and R.F. Chapman -- Prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH) of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori : 4K-PTTH / Hironori Ishizaki [and others] -- Neuropeptide control of ecdysone biosynthesis / Wendy A. Smith [and others] -- The peptides, mRNA, and genes of the AKH family / Martin H. Schaffer and Barbara E. Noyes -- Properties of genes expressed during ecdysone-induced imaginal disc morphogenesis in Drosophila / Jeanette E. Natzle [and others] -- The mechanism of steroid regulation of peptide action on the insect nervous system / James W. Truman and David B. Morton -- Selection of methoprene-resistant mutants of Drosophila melanogaster / Thomas G. Wilson and Judy Fabian -- Estrogens and androgens in insects / D.L. Denlinger [and others].
• Genomic cloning of developmentally regulated larval cuticle genes from the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta / John Rebers [and others] -- Hormonal control of sequential gene expression in insect epidermis / Lynn M. Riddiford -- Blastoderm-specific genes in Drosophila / Judith A. Lengyel -- Apolipophorin III in locusts, in relation to the action of adipokinetic hormone / Haruo Chino -- Adipokinetic hormone-induced lipophorin transformations during locust flight / Dick J. Van der Horst [and others] -- The dynamics of lipophorin interconversions in Manduca sexta / Robert O. Ryan, Michael A. Wells and John H. Law -- Lipophorin biosynthesis during the life cycle of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta / Sarvamangala V. Prasad [and others] -- Cloning and expression of the gene for apolipophorin III from Locusta migratoria / M.R. Kanost [and others] -- The function of the major larval serum proteins of Drosophila melanogaster : a review / David B. Roberts -- Inhibitory and stimulatory control of developmentally regulated hemolymph proteins in Trichoplusia ni / Grace Jones [and others] -- A storage hexamer from Hyalophora that binds riboflavin and resembles the apoprotein of hemocyanin / William H. Telfer and Holman C. Massey, Jr. -- Affinity purification and characteristics of juvenile hormone esterase from Lepidoptera / Bruce D. Hammock [and others] -- Mechanisms of insect cuticle stabilization. How do tobacco hornworms do it? / Karl J. Kramer [and others] -- Quinone methide sclerotization / M. Sugumaran -- Hemolymph proteins participating in the defence system of Sarcophaga peregrina / Shunji Natori.
• Increase in serum lysozyme following injection of bacteria into larvae of Manduca sexta / P.E. Dunn, M.R. Kanost and D.R. Drake -- A critical evaluation of the factors essential for correct expression of the genes coding for Drosophila yolk proteins / Mary Bownes, Alan D. Shirras and Robert D.C. Saunders -- Analysis of mosquito yolk protein by monoclonal antibodies / Alexander S. Raikhel and Arden O. Lea -- 20-Hydroxyecdysone suppresses yolk production in the Indianmeal moth / Paul D. Shirk and Victor J. Brookes -- Microvitellogenin, a 31,000 dalton female specific protein / John K. Kawooya, Ellie O. Osir and John H. Law -- Accessory gland development in mealworm beetles / George M. Happ -- The regulation and organization of oothecin genes in the cockroach Periplaneta americana / Richard N. Pau -- Cell autonomous and hormonal control of sex-limited gene expression in Drosophila / Douglas R. Cavener [and others] -- Workshop summary : Potential for molecular biological control of invertebrates / Joel B. Kirschbaum -- The tobacco-insect model system for genetically engineering plants for non-protein insect resistance factors / Davy Jones [and others].

ISBN

• 0845126482
• 9780845126486

LCCN

87002701

OCLC

• ocm15222206
• 15222206
• SCSB-1187151

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library