1st Edition
Revival: Insect-Plant Interactions (1993) Volume V
Section 1 Biochemistry of Insect-Plant Interactions: 2 Herbivore Oral Secretions are the First Line of Protection Against Plant-Induced Defences 3 Insect Detoxification and Sequestration Strategies 4 Plant Semiochemicals – Perception and Behavioural Responses by Insects Section 2 Genetics and Genomics of Insect-Plant Interactions: 5 Plant Transcriptomic Responses to Herbivory 6 Transcriptome Responses in Herbivorous Insects Towards Host Plant and Toxin Feeding 7 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Insects Section 3 Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions: 8 Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Evidence 9 Plant-mediated Interactions Among Insects within a Community Ecological Perspective 10 The Altitudinal Niche-Breadth Hypothesis in Insect-Plant Interactions 11 Revisiting Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution in the Molecular Biology Era
Biography
Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.
