Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Second Edition, provides an updated and comprehensive review of the biochemistry and molecular biology of insect pheromone biosynthesis and reception. The book ties together historical information with recent discoveries, provides the reader with the current state of the field, and suggests where future research is headed. Written by international experts, many of whom pioneered studies on insect pheromone production and reception, this release updates the 2003 first edition with an emphasis on recent advances in the field. This book will be an important resource for entomologists and molecular biologists studying all areas of insect communication.

Offers a historical and contemporary perspective, with a focus on advances over the last 15 yearsDiscusses the molecular and regulatory mechanisms underlying pheromone production/detection, as well as the evolution of these processes across the insectsLed by editors with broad expertise in the metabolic pathways of pheromone production and the biochemical and genetic processes of pheromone detection

1. Production and Reception of Insect Pheromones – Introduction and Overview 2. Lepidoptera: Female Sex pheromone biosynthesis and its hormonal regulation 3. Yeast/plants: production of insect pheromones 4. Pheromone production in bark beetles 5. Drosophila: pheromone production 6. Pheromone mediated social regulation in honey bees (Apis mellifera) 7. Hydrocarbon pheromone production in the housefly and other insects 8. Pheromone Production in Nasonia 9. Hemiptera/stink bugs: pheromone production 10. The neuroethology of labeled lines in insect olfactory systems 11. Pheromone Detection and Responses in Bombyx mori 12. Molecular Mechanisms of pheromone detection 13. Insect Odorant Receptors: Function and Regulation 14. Biophysics of Lepidoptera Pheromone Receptors 15. Olfactory genomics within the Lepidoptera 16. lfactory Genomics of Eusociality within the Hymenoptera 17. Olfactory Genomics of the Coleoptera 18. Mechanisms and dynamics of insect odorant-binding proteins 19. Odor Degrading Enzymes and Signal Termination 20. Olfactory Genomics and Biotechnology in Insect Control 21. Reflections on antennal proteins