Insect Symbiosis Volume 1 summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge research on this issue.

Features:

• Summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between insects and symbiotic organisms, with a special focus on Wolbachia
• Reveals how knowledge of symbiotic relationships of disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests offer new ways of approaching control strategies
• Presents well-referenced work from authors in an array of fields such as molecular biology, microbiology, and parasitology, as a foundation for further study
• Offers findings of particular interest to professionals in entomology, genetics, veterinary medicine, zoology, and evolution

Contents

1. Insect Symbiosis: An Introduction
2. Buchnera Bacteria and Other Symbionts of Aphids
3. Comparative Genomics of Insect Endosymbionts
4. Symbiosis in Tsetse
5. Endosymbiosis in the Weevil of the Genus Sitophilus: Genetic, Physiological, and Molecular Interactions among Associated Genomes
6. Rhodnius prolixus and Its Symbiont, Rhodococcus rhodnii: A Model for Paratransgenic Control of Disease Transmission
7. Bark Beetle-Fungus Symbioses
8. Symbiotic Relationships of Tephritids
9. Symbionts Affecting Termite Behavior
10. Symbiosis of Microsporidia and Insects
11. A New Bacterium from the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides Phylum That Causes Sex-Ratio Distortion
12. Inherited Microorganisms That Selectively Kill Male Hosts: The Hidden Players of Insect Evolution
13. Wolbachia pipientis: Impotent by Association
14. Cytoplasmic Incompatibility
15. Parthenogenesis Associated with Wolbachia
16. Insights into Wolbachia Obligatory Symbiosis
17. Symbiosis and the Origin of Species
18. Discovery of Symbiont-Host Horizontal Genome Transfer: A Beetle Carrying Two Bacterial and One Chromosomal Wolbachia Endosymbionts

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