The Insects: Structure and Function
ISBN: 9780521113892 | 052111389X
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 11/12/2012
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Building on the strengths of Chapman's original text, this 5th edition has been updated by a team of eminent insect physiologists. The chapters focus on functional systems rather than taxonomic groups, providing a comprehensive understanding of how insects work. It remains an essential text for students, researchers and applied entomologists.
The Insects has been the standard textbook in the field since the first edition published over forty years ago. Building on the strengths of Chapman's original text, this long... MORE
The Insects has been the standard textbook in the field since the first edition published over forty years ago. Building on the strengths of Chapman's original text, this long... MORE
| List of contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Prologue | |
| The Head, Ingestion, Utilization and Distribution of Food: | |
| Head | |
| Mouthparts and feeding | |
| Alimentary canal, digestion and absorption | |
| Nutrition | |
| Circulatory system, blood and the immune system | |
| Fat body | |
| ... MORE | |
| Thorax | |
| Legs and locomotion | |
| Wings and flight | |
| Muscles | |
| The Abdomen, Reproduction and Development: | |
| Abdomen | |
| Reproductive system: male | |
| Reproductive system: female | |
| The egg and embryology | |
| Postembryonic development | |
| The Integument, Gas Exchange and Homeostasis: | |
| Integument | |
| Gaseous exchange | |
| Excretion and salt and water regulation | |
| Thermal relations | |
| Communication | |
| Physiological Co-ordination within the Insect: | |
| Nervous system | |
| Endocrine system Stuart | |
| Section | |
| Perception of the Environment: | |
| Vision | |
| Mechanoreception | |
| Chemoreception | |
| Communication with other Organisms: | |
| Visual signals: colour and light production | |
| Mechanical communication: producing sound and substrate vibrations | |
| Chemical communication: pheromones and chemicals with interspecific significance | |
| Taxonomic index | |
| Subject index | |
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