Insect pathogens : molecular approaches and techniques /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Insects > Molecular aspects.; Insects > Pathogens.; Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Techniques and Methodology.; Insects.; Entomopathogens.; Genetic engineering.; Genomics.; Host specificity.; Hosts.; Identification.; Methodology.; Natural enemies.; Pathogens.; Electronic books.
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This book attempts to bring together a broad array of molecular techniques and approaches currently used in insect pathology. It is divided into four parts: (i) identification and diagnostics; (ii) evolutionary relationships and genetics; (iii) host-pathogen interactions; and (iv) genomics and genet...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Approaches to Virus Characterization and Detection / M.A. Erlandson and D.A. Theilmann
• Molecular Approaches and Techniques for the Study of Entomopathogenic Bacteria / N. Boemare and P. Tailliez
• Molecular Methods for Identification and Diagnosis of Fungi / L.A. Castrillo and R.A. Humber
• Molecular Approaches and the Taxonomy of Insect-parasitic and Pathogenic Nematodes / S.P. Stock
• Identification and Diagnostics of Entomopathogenic Protozoa / M. Oborník
• Phylogenetic Studies with Entomopathogenic Bacteria with Special Emphasis on Symbionts of Entomopathogenic Nematodes / P. Tailliez and N. Boemare
• Molecular Systematics of Entomopathogenic Fungi / S.A. Rehner
• Phylogenetics and Population Genetics of Entomopathogenic and Insect-parasitic Nematodes / S.M. Peat, B.C. Hyman and B.J. Adams
• Host-Virus Interactions / J.P. Burand, M. Nakai and I. Smith
• Insect-Protozoa-Bacteria Associations : a Model System for Investigating Host-Parasite Interactions / B.L. Weiss, G.M. Attardo and S. Aksoy
• Methods in Investigating Nematode-Bacterium-Insect Symbiosis / H. Goodrich-Blair, D.J. Clarke, P.S. Grewal and T.A. Ciche
• Genetic Engineering of Bacteria to Improve Efficacy Using the Insecticidal Proteins of Bacillus Species / H.-W. Park and B.A. Federici
• Genomic Analysis of the Symbiotic and Entomopathogenic Photorhabdus Bacteria / S. Gaudriault and E. Duchaud
• Genomics of Entomopathogenic Viruses / J. Slack, Z. Li, S. Escasa, D. Doucet, T. Ladd, G. Quan and B. Arif
• Genomics and Genetic Improvement of Entomopathogenic Nematodes / H. Koltai
• Entomopathonic Fungi and the Genomics Era / R.J. St Leger and C. Wang.