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Insect Diapause

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Author: David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University

Date Published: April 2022
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108497527

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Our highly seasonal world restricts insect activity to brief portions of the year. This feature necessitates a sophisticated interpretation of seasonal changes and enactment of mechanisms for bringing development to a halt and then reinitiating it when the inimical season is past. The dormant state of diapause serves to bridge the unfavourable seasons, and its timing provides a powerful mechanism for synchronizing insect development. This book explores how seasonal signals are monitored and used by insects to enact specific molecular pathways that generate the diapause phenotype. The broad perspective offered here scales from the ecological to the molecular and thus provides a comprehensive view of this exciting and vibrant research field, offering insights on topics ranging from pest management, evolution, speciation, climate change and disease transmission, to human health, as well as analogies with other forms of invertebrate dormancy and mammalian hibernation.
- The first comprehensive reference book available on insect diapause in past 30 years
- Offers a single source covering the broad field, from the evolution and ecological aspects of diapause through to the molecular mechanisms that undergird seasonal development of insects
- Provides a perspective on how the study of insect diapause can contribute to diverse fields such as insect pest management to issues of human health.
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‘Insect Diapause guides the reader through an expansive library of historic and recent discoveries towards a synthesis of how diapause works, how it evolves, and how it might be the key to insect resilience or decline … Denlinger makes it relatively easy to navigate a complex series of experiments … [and] is adept at tracing the common thread without obscuring the variability and uncertainty of the results … Insect Diapause provides a much-needed synthesis of modern diapause research and should find a home on the shelves of many entomologists. It covers a lot of territory yet throughout it reveals fertile ground for a new generation of breakthroughs in diapause biology.’ Greg Ragland, American Entomologist
'Denlinger is a world leader in the study of insect diapause. The volume is heavily referenced and up to date. The book is appropriate for both experienced researchers and graduate students.' Goggy Davidowitz, The Quarterly Review of Biology
‘Insect Diapause is a long awaited and excellent new monograph summarising basics and recent achievements of what we know about such a fascinating phenomenon as insect diapause. A must-read.’ Dmitri L. Musolin, Royal Entomological Society (www.royensoc.co.uk)
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- Date Published: April 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108497527
- length: 464 pages
- dimensions: 251 x 174 x 27 mm
- weight: 1.01kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Confronting the challenges of a seasonal environment
2. What seasons are being avoided?
3. Variation in the diapause response
4. The cost of diapause and some diapause alternatives
5. Interpreting seasonal cues to program diapause entry
6. Preparing for diapause
7. The diapause state
8. Ending diapause and reinitiating development
9. Molecular signaling pathways that regulate diapause
10. Genetic control of diapause
11. Evolution of diapause
12. Wider implications
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David L. Denlinger, Ohio State University
David L. Denlinger is one of the world's leading researchers on insect diapause. He is a Distinguished University Professor, and Professor Emeritus of Entomology, at the Ohio State University, USA. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Professor Denlinger's current laboratory research focuses primarily on molecular mechanisms involved in insect overwintering. His interests range from the use of clock genes to perceive environmental signals through the endocrine and molecular events that result in expression of the diapause phenotype. He has received numerous awards for his research including the Gregor Mendel Medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences (2006), the Antarctic Service Medal (2006), and the ICIPE Achievement Award (2020).