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An addition to the literature on a rapidly growing field of symbiosis in modern biology, this volume focuses on the microbes associated with insects and mites. Recent advances in genomics of several intracellular organisms such as Wolbachia, Rickettsia, and Buchnera have allowed researchers to study the molecular pathways for the establishment of intracellular symbiosis. Wolbachia is known to infect wide-ranging species of insects, filarial nematodes, and mites, and causes in their hosts parthenogenesis, feminization of genetic males, male killing, and cytoplasmic incompatibility. The book focuses on the molecular biology of relationship between the symbiotic organisms and their insect hosts in 18 chapters and should interest scientists in discovering new ways to control disease-carrying insects and agricultural pests. For professionals in entomology, microbiology and parasitology, veterinary medicine, and evolutionary biology. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Professionals and practitioners. S. M. Paracer Worcester State College
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