Insect Mouthparts
Form, Function, Development and Performance
Editors: Krenn, Harald W. (Ed.)
Free Preview- The first comprehensive book about insect mouthparts
- Includes information on functional types, biomechanics, evolution and developmental biology of insect mouthparts
- Discusses various related topics, like feeding performance, palaeontology and larval mouthparts
- Richly illustrated with SEM micrographs, colour photos and illustrations
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- About this book
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This is the first comprehensive book focusing on the form and function of insect mouthparts. Written by leading experts, it reviews the current knowledge on feeding types and the evolution of mouthparts and presents new research approaches. The richly illustrated articles cover topics ranging from functional morphology, biomechanics of biting and chewing, and the biophysics of fluid-feeding to the morphogenesis and genetics of mouthpart development, ecomorphology in flower-visiting insects as well as the evolution of mouthparts, including fossil records. Intended for entomologists and scientists interested in interdisciplinary approaches, the book provides a solid basis for future scientific work.
Chapter 6 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
- About the authors
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Harald W. Krenn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Integrative Zoology at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he graduated in Zoology and Botany. His current research focuses on the evolutionary morphology of insect mouthparts, integrating new methods of functional morphology with feeding behaviour and ecology under evolutionary perspectives. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research on flower-visiting insects, which also involves fieldwork in the Austrian Alps, Neotropical rainforests and the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction: Ecological Importance of Insect Feeding
Pages 1-7
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Form and Function of Insect Mouthparts
Pages 9-46
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Fluid-Feeding Mouthparts
Pages 47-99
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Suspension and Filter Feeding in Aquatic Insects
Pages 101-125
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Theme and Variation in the Development of Insect Mouthparts
Pages 127-174
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Insect Mouthparts
- Book Subtitle
- Form, Function, Development and Performance
- Editors
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- Harald W. Krenn
- Series Title
- Zoological Monographs
- Series Volume
- 5
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-29654-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-29654-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-29653-7
- Series ISSN
- 2523-3904
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 683
- Number of Illustrations
- 54 b/w illustrations, 113 illustrations in colour
- Topics
