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Insect Ultrastructure

Volume 1

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  • © 1982

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Editors:
  1. Robert C. King

    1. Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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  2. Hiromu Akai

    1. Sericultural Experiment Station, Yatabe, Ibaraki, Japan

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. The Ultrastructure of Gametes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Formation of Clones of Interconnected Cells during Gametogenesis in Insects

      • Robert C. King, Joseph D. Cassidy, André Rousset
      Pages 3-31

    3. Relationships between Germ and Somatic Cells in the Testes of Locusts and Moths

      • Annette Szöllösi
      Pages 32-60

    4. The Meiotic Prophase in Bombyx mori

      • Søren Wilken Rasmussen, Preben Bach Holm
      Pages 61-85

    5. Morphological Manifestations of Ribosomal DNA Amplification during Insect Oogenesis

      • M. Donald Cave
      Pages 86-117

    6. The Cell Biology of Vitellogenic Follicles in Hyalophora and Rhodnius

      • William H. Telfer, Erwin Huebner, D. Spencer Smith
      Pages 118-149

    7. Order and Defects in the Silkmoth Chorion, A Biological Analogue of a Cholesteric Liquid Crystal

      • Grace Dane Mazur, Jerome C. Regier, Fotis C. Kafatos
      Pages 150-185

  3. The Ultrastructure of Developing Cells

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. The Cytoplasmic Architecture of the Insect Egg Cell

      • Dieter Zissler, Klaus Sander
      Pages 189-221

    3. Morphological Analysis of Transcription in Insect Embryos

      • Victoria Foe, Hugh Forrest, Linda Wilkinson, Charles Laird
      Pages 222-246

    4. The Morphogenesis of Imaginal Discs of Drosophila

      • Diane K. Fristrom, Wayne L. Rickoll
      Pages 247-277

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

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Fine Structure of the Cuticle of Insects and Other Arthropods

      • Barry K. Filshie
      Pages 281-312

    3. The Structure and Development of Insect Connective Tissues

      • Doreen E. Ashhurst
      Pages 313-350

    4. The Structure and Development of the Tracheal System

      • Charles Noirot, Cécile Noirot-Timothée
      Pages 351-381

    5. Structural and Functional Analysis of Balbiani Ring Genes in the Salivary Glands of Chironomus tentans

      • Bertil Daneholt
      Pages 382-401

    6. Insect Intercellular Junctions: Their Structure and Development

      • Nancy J. Lane
      Pages 402-433

    7. Selectivity in Junctional Coupling between Cells of Insect Tissues

      • Stanley Caveney, Robert Berdan
      Pages 434-465

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 467-485
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About this book

Fourteen years have passed since the publication of David Spencer Smith's Insect Cells: Their Structure and Function. Here the results of a decade of electronmicroscopic studies on insect cells were summarized in an organized and integrated fashion for the first time, and the ultrastructural characteristics of different specialized cells and tissues were abundantly illustrated in the 117 plates this monograph contained. In the intervening period great progress has been made in the field of Insect Ultrastructure. Organelles not even mentioned in Smith's book, such as synaptonemal complexes, clathrin baskets, fusomes, and retinular junc­ tions, have been identified and functions proposed for them. There have also been many technical advances that have profoundly influenced the direction of subsequent research. A spectacular example would be the development by Miller and Beatty of the chromosomal spreading technique which allowed for the first time ultrastructural studies on segments of chromosomes containing genes in various stages of replication and transcription. Then there is the freeze-fracture procedure first described by Moor and his colleagues. This technique permitted an analysis of intercellular junctions that was impossible with the conventional sectioning methods. The results greatly clarified our understanding of the channels for ion movement and the permeability barriers between cells and also the membrane changes that occur during the embryonic differentiation and metamorphosis of various types of insect cells.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Robert C. King

  • Sericultural Experiment Station, Yatabe, Ibaraki, Japan

    Hiromu Akai

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Insect Ultrastructure

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 1

  • Editors: Robert C. King, Hiromu Akai

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7266-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-7268-8Published: 10 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-7266-4Published: 09 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 485

  • Number of Illustrations: 414 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Developmental Biology, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology, Plant Sciences, Zoology, Evolutionary Biology

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