Insect Ultrastructure

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. The Ultrastructure of Developing Cells

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Ultrastructure and Development of the Telotrophic Ovary

      • Erwin Huebner

      Pages 3-48

   3. Early Embryogenesis of Bombyx mori

      • Keiichiro Miya

      Pages 49-73

   4. Electron Microscopic Mapping and Ultrastructure of Drosophila Polytene Chromosomes

      • Veikko Sorsa

      Pages 75-107

3. The Ultrastructure of the Development, Differentiation, and Functioning of Specialized Tissues and Organs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. The Structure of Insect Muscles

      • David Spencer Smith

      Pages 111-150

   3. The Structure and Development of the Vacuolar System in the Fat Body of Insects

      • Michael Locke

      Pages 151-197

   4. The Ultrastructure of the Digestive and Excretory Organs

      • Roger Martoja, Christiane Ballan-Dufrançais

      Pages 199-268

   5. The Ultrastructure of Interacting Endocrine and Target Cells

      • Bonnie Joy Sedlak

      Pages 269-301

   6. The Fine Structure of Insect Glands Secreting Waxy Substances

      • Yoshio Waku, Imré Foldi

      Pages 303-322

   7. The Ultrastructure and Functions of the Silk Gland Cells of Bombyx mori

      • Hiromu Akai

      Pages 323-364

   8. Structure and Development of Male Accessory Glands in Insects

      • George M. Happ

      Pages 365-396

   9. The Photoreceptor Cells

      • Stanley D. Carlson, Richard L. Saint Marie, Che Chi

      Pages 397-433

   10. The Glial Cells of Insects

       • Richard L. Saint Marie, Stanley D. Carlson, Che Chi

       Pages 435-475

   11. Mechanosensitive and Olfactory Sensilla of Insects

       • Thomas A. Keil, R. Alexander Steinbrecht

       Pages 477-516

   12. The Cytopathology of Baculovirus Infections in Insects

       • Yoshinori Tanada, Roberta T. Hess

       Pages 517-556

4. The Ultrastructure of Cells in Pathological States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 557-557

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   2. Comparative Ultrastructure of Wild-Type and Tumorous Cells of Drosophila

      • Elisabeth Gateff, Roshana Shrestha, Hiromu Akai

      Pages 559-578

   3. The Cellular Defense System of Drosophila melanogaster

      • Tahir M. Rizki, Rose M. Rizki

      Pages 579-604

Cell biology is moving at breakneck speed, and many of the results from studies on insects have helped in understanding some of the central problems of biology. The time is therefore ripe to provide the scientific community with a series of up-to-date, well illustrated reviews of selected aspects of the sub­ microscopic cytology of insects. The topics we have included fall into four general groups: seven chapters deal with gametogenesis, four concern develop­ ing somatic cells, seventeen chapters describe specialized tissues and organs, and three chapters cover cells in pathological states. These accounts are illustrated with over 600 electron micrographs. The more than 1100 pages in the two volumes of Insect Ultrastructure combined labors of 49 dedicated contributors from II countries. represent the These authors have digested and critically summarized a very large body of information, and some measure of this effort can be gained from consulting the bibliographies that close each of the 31 chapters. These contain 2400 publica­ tions authored by 1500 different scientists. However, before we congratulate ourselves on the advanced state of our knowledge, it is worth remembering that representatives of less than 0.01 % of the known species of insects have been examined with the electron microscope.

• Drosophila
• Embryo
• Glia
• Neuron
• Organe
• Orthoptera
• classification
• development
• morphology
• plasma membrane
• tissue

• Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Robert C. King

• Sericultural Experiment Station, Yatabe, Ibaraki, Japan

  Hiromu Akai

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