This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects. The study of polyembronic insects has advanced considerably over the last several decades.The book shows the exciting potential of polyembryonic insects and their impact on life sciences. It describes the mechanisms of polyembryogenesis; tissue-compatible invasion of the host, which is the first case of compatible cellular interaction between phylogenetically distant organisms without rejection; the sex differences in defense; and the environmental regulation of caste structure. The first book devoted to polyembryony in insects, it draws on the author’s research on polyembryonic wasps from 1990 to the present day, covering various topics such as polyembryogenesis in vitro, host-parasite interaction, sex differences in soldier function/humoral toxic factor, and the transcription analysis of polyembryogenesis.It is intended not only for researchers in the field of entomology, parasitology, ontogeny, reproductive biology, developmental biology, sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), but also for postgraduate students in these fields.
This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects. The study of polyembronic insects has advanced considerably over the last several decades.The book shows the exciting potential of polyembryonic insects and their impact on life sciences. It describes the mechanisms of polyembryogenesis; tissue-compatible invasion of the host, which is the first case of compatible cellular interaction between phylogenetically distant organisms without rejection; the sex differences in defense; and the environmental regulation of caste structure. The first book devoted to polyembryony in insects, it draws on the author’s research on polyembryonic wasps from 1990 to the present day, covering various topics such as polyembryogenesis in vitro, host-parasite interaction, sex differences in soldier function/humoral toxic factor, and the transcription analysis of polyembryogenesis.It is intended not only for researchers in the field of entomology, parasitology, ontogeny, reproductive biology, developmental biology, sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), but also for postgraduate students in these fields.
At Yamada Conference LIII, papers on many novel materials and on novel phenomena in condensed matter physics were presented OCo for instance, the achievement of simultaneous creation of excitons and free-electron-hole pairs in rare gas solids, and a low frequency fluctuation of the spectral shift of indirect excitons in GaAs coupled quantum wells. Single molecule spectroscopy is a powerful tool for studying molecules including biological systems; the study of delocalization of excitons in the photosynthetic light harvesting antenna system was also reported. The proceedings thus contain many excellent papers dealing with current research topics on the excitonic processes in bulk, quantum wells, quantum dots and other confined systems. This book will serve as an excellent source of recent references and reviews for a wide range of researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering and biological sciences. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: . OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings). Contents: Dynamical Process of Photoionization in Semiconductor Nanocrystals (M Y Shen et al.); Excitons on a 1D Periodic Conjugated Polymer Chain: Two Electronic Structures of Polydiacetylene Chains (C Lapersonne-Meyer); Anomalous Spectral Shifts of Indirect Excitons in Coupled GaAs Quantum Wells (D W Snoke et al.); Infrared Absorption by Excitons in Cuprous Oxide (M GAppert et al.); Theory of Excitation-Energy Transfer Processes Involving Optically Forbidden Exciton States in Antenna Systems of Photosynthesis (K Mukai et al.); Transient Grating Induced by Excitonic Polaritons in Thin Film Semiconductors (K Akiyama et al.); Excitonic Photoluminescence of Pentacene Single Crystal (T Aoki-Matsumoto et al.); Scanning Near-Field Optical Microspectroscopy of Single Perylene Microcrystals (J Niitsuma et al.); and other papers. Readership: Condensed matter physicists, materials scientists, chemists and biologists.
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