Cuticle Techniques in Arthropods

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Materials Testing of Arthropod Cuticle Preparations

   • H. R. Hepburn, H. D. Chandler

   Pages 1-44

3. Optical Methods in Cuticle Research

   • A. C. Neville

   Pages 45-89

4. Ultrastructure Methods in Cuticle Research

   • M. Locke, P. Huie

   Pages 91-144

5. Biochemical Methods (Proteins)

   • R. H. Hackman

   Pages 145-184

6. Cuticular Sclerotization

   • Svend Olav Andersen

   Pages 185-215

7. Chemical Methods (Lipids)

   • A. R. Gilby

   Pages 217-252

8. Tissue Culture Methods

   • Herbert Oberlander

   Pages 253-272

9. Electrical Methods

   • Paul Scheie

   Pages 273-300

10. Cuticular Water Relations Techniques

    • J. P. Loveridge

    Pages 301-366

11. The Penetration of Cuticle by Insecticides

    • C. T. Lewis

    Pages 367-400

12. Back Matter

    Pages 401-410

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Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bac­ teria and viruses at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other. The size and general nature of insects present special problems to the student of entomology. For example, many commercially available in­ struments are geared to measure in grams, while the forces commonly en­ countered in studying insects are in the milligram range. Therefore, tech­ niques developed in the study of insects or in those fields concerned with the control of insect pests are often unique. Methods for measuring things are common to all sciences. Advances sometimes depend more on how something was done than on what was measured; indeed a given field often progresses from one technique to another as new methods are discovered, developed, and modified. Just as often, some of these techniques find their way into the classroom when the problems involved have been sufficiently ironed out to permit students to master the manipulations in a few laboratory periods. Many specialized techniques are confined to one specific research labo­ ratory. Although methods may be considered commonplace where they are used, in another context even the simplest procedures may save con­ siderable time. It is the purpose of this series (1) to report new develop­ ments in methodology, (2) to reveal sources of groups who have dealt with and solved particular entomological problems, and (3) to describe ex­ periments which might be applicable for use in biology laboratory courses.

• Cuticle
• Gliederfüsser
• Haut
• Insekten
• tissue

• Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA

  Thomas A. Miller

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