Insect-Microbe Symbioses: Understanding the Physiological Integration

By Kerry M. Oliver (Author)

Insects have intricate relationships with microbial symbionts that inhabit their digestive systems or internal cells and tissues. These symbioses are often stable and widespread, suggesting their importance. Experimentation has confirmed this prediction, and with the advancement of experimental methodologies and genomic techniques, insect science has entered a new era, enabling the study of previously elusive symbioses, including those with significant medical and agricultural implications.

This volume presents a collection of chapters focused on the physiology of insect-microbe symbioses, emphasizing their underlying mechanisms and the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these interactions. Microbial residents influence insect digestion, nutrition, detoxification, reproduction, interspecies signaling, and host-parasite interactions. These chapters synthesize impactful, state-of-the-art research on insect-microbe symbioses, providing insights into the physiological integration between insects and their microbial partners.

Through discussions on the mechanisms that both stabilize and regulate these symbioses, these chapters offer further understanding of the physiological integration between many insects and their influential microbial partners. This broad look at the diverse roles and impacts of symbionts across Insecta, along with molecular and genomic-assisted insights into the diversity and function of symbioses, provides valuable information on the influence and integration of symbionts from medically and agriculturally important insects.

Product Details:

Published by: Elsevier Science

Publication Date: May 27, 2020

Language: English

ISBN: 9780081029879, 9780081029886