Parasites and Pathogens of Insects: Pathogens

Both volumes of Parasites and Pathogens of Insects provide in-depth coverage of the interface between insect parasites and pathogens and hosts, and explore the relationships between these partners. They emphasize biochemical and molecular interactions, basic biology, and the roles of hormones, receptors, and other cellular components in modulating interactions between host insects and attacking agents. These topics also are assessed in relation to biotechnology and biological control.
In the short term, these volumes fill a void in current literature by emphasizing basic interactions at the biochemical and molecular levels. In the long term, these interactions may provide avenues for exploitation to enhance the rate of "beneficial" parasitism or to reduce the rates of disease transmission and infection of vertebrate hosts.

Presents the latest information on insect parasites and pathogensDescribes biochemical and molecular host-parasite and host-pathogen relationshipsCovers mechanisms of insect pathogenicity and resistanceProvides exceptional breadth of coverage and authoritative reviewsSpecial topicsTransposable elements in insect pathogensCo-evolution and gene transfer between hosts and invadersBiological control

R.J. Akhurst and G.B. Dunphy, Tripartite Interactions between Symbiotically Associated Entomopathogenic Bacteria, Nematodes, and Their Insect Hosts.
I. Faye and D. Hultmark, The Insect Immune Proteins and the Regulation of Their Genes.
P.V. Pietrantonio, B.A. Federici, and S.S. Gill, Interaction of Bacillus thuringiensis Endotoxins with the Insect Midgut Epithelium.
B.A. Federici, Viral Pathobiology in Relation to Insect Control.
C.A. Charlton and L.E. Volkman, Baculoviruses, Vertebrate Viruses, and Cytoskeletons.
B.G. Corsaro, M. Gijzen, P. Wang, and R.R. Granados, Baculovirus Enhancing Proteins as Determinants of Viral Pathogenesis.
P.D. Friesen, Invertebrate Transposable Elements in the Baculovirus Genome: Characterization and Significance.
R.E. Hawtin and R.D. Possee, Genetic Manipulation of the Baculovirus Genome for Insect Pest Control.
J.R. Fuxa, Insect Resistance to Viruses.
R. St. Leger, Biology and Mechanismsof Insect-Cuticle Invasion of Deuteromycete Fungal Pathogens.
W.M. Brooks, Host-Parasitoid-Pathogen Interactions.