Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology: Postembryonic development. Vol. 2
- ISBN-10
- 0080308031
- ISBN-13
- 9780080308036
- Category
- Insect biochemistry
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Pergamon
- Authors
- G. A. Kerkut, Lawrence Irwin Gilbert
Description
Volume 2 on Postembryonic Development deals with such topics as life cycles, structural analysis, imaginal discs, cuticular proteins, intercellular communication, polytene chromosomes, muscle structure and maturation, and regeneration. The chapters show that generality of cell development is to be found in insects, in contrast to the more specialized cells of vertebrates. The way that insect cells preserve their relationships to one another in simple geometries within tubes and sheets has allowed experiments that have given the first records of segmentally repeating gradients and compartments, the first quantitative accounts of the way that cells are coupled, the first descriptions of the remodelling of gap junctions and the modulation of junctional conductivity by hormones. This volume provides up-to-date accounts that will be of value not only to entomologists but also to all researchers in cell and developmental biology.
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