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Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis: Volume 58

Mechanisms Underlying Microbial Symbiosis: Volume 58

Oliver, Kerry M.
Russell, Jacob A.

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Insect Physiology, Book 58

Anatomy & PhysiologyZoology

ISBN10: 008102987X
ISBN13: 9780081029879
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: May 28 2020
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Insects engage in intimate associations with microbial symbionts that colonize their digestive systems or internal cells and tissues. The stability and near ubiquity of many of these symbioses implies their importance, a prediction supported through experimentation. With the advancing power of experimental methodologies and the growing accessibility of genomic techniques, insect science has reached a powerful new stage enabling the study of previously recalcitrant symbioses, including several with medical and agricultural significance. In this volume we publish a collection of chapters focused on the physiology of insect-microbe symbioses, emphasizing their mechanistic underpinnings, and the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of these interactions. Resident microbes modulate insect digestion, nutrition, detoxification, reproduction, interspecies signaling, and host-parasite interactions, and these chapters synthesize impactful, state-of-the art research on insect-microbe symbioses. Through discussions of the mechanisms that both stabilize and regulate these symbioses, these chapters yield further insight into the physiological integration between many insects and their influential microbial partners.

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