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Big fleas have little fleas : how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science /
"In this book, Elizabeth Davidson shares amazing stories about diseases of insects and other invertebrates important to people - and about the scientists who learned to use those diseases to control pests and create products beneficial to humans. Focusing on insect-microbial interactions crucia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease
- 2. Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides
- 3. Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies
- 4. The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system
- 5. Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle
- 6. Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics
- 7. Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay
- 8. Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish
- 9. Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera
- 10. Cloak and dagger : nematodes aginst insect pests
- 11. Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees
- 12. The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen
- 13. The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust
- 14. Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms
- 15. Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together
- Suggested readdings
- Illustration credits
- Index.