Insect Integument and Colour /

• Other Authors: Casas, Jérôme (Editor), Simpson, Stephen J. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK : Elsevier Science, 2010.
• Series: Advances in insect physiology ; v. 38.
• Subjects: Insects > Physiology.; Insects > Color.; Electronic books.

Advances in Insect Physiology publishes eclectic and thematic volumes containing important, comprehensive and in-depth reviews of all aspects of insect physiology. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists and insect biochemists...

Table of Contents:

• Increasing demands and vanishing expertise in insect integrative biology / Jérôme Casas and Stephen J. Simpson
• Chitin biochemistry: synthesis, hydrolysis and inhibition / Ephraim Cohen
• Diverse strategies of protein sclerotization in marine invertebrates: structure- property relationships in natural biomaterials / Daniel J. Rubin, Ali Miserez and J. Herbert Waite
• Insect cuticular surface modifications: scales and other structural formations / Helen Ghiradella
• Structural Colours / Jean-Polvigneron and Priscilla Simonis
• Molecular and physiological basis of colour patter formation / H. Frederik Nijhout
• Insect colours and visual appearance in the eyes of their predators / Marc Théry and Doris Gomez.