Author: Gary Richard LiptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Feeding and Activity Rhythms in the American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana (L.)
The American Cockroach
Author: K.G. AdiyodiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400958277
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
This volume deals mainly with the biology of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (1.). Contributors were urged to emphasize recent findings, including unpublished data when possible, a goal that would not have been feasible if it were not for the two previously published books on the basic biology of cockroaches, The Biology o/the Cockroach (1968) by D. M. Guthrie and A. R. Tindall and The Cockroach, Volume 1 (1968) by P. B. Cornwell. Those topics not included in The American Cockroach, such as external morphology, are well covered in the two preceding books. In addition, these books provided a broad background upon which contributors to The American Cockroach have been able to build with recent trends, new and established concepts and integration. Although this book deals primarily with the American cockroach, many chapters offer a comparative approach in sections where the more recent and exciting research has been accomplished on other species. Most contributors place the cockroach in perspective with regard to its appropriateness or inappropriateness for various types of biological investigations. Many questions are realistically left unanswered when no acceptable or obvious solution is apparent; an invitation to new researchers to consider the cockroach as an experimental subject.
The Correlation Between Circadian Rhythms of Sensitivity to Dichlorvos and Activity in the American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana L.
Author: Naeem EesaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circadian rhythms
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Impact of Nitrogen and Energy Reserve Depletion on Feeding and Drinking in the American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana (L.) (Orthoptera : Blattidae)
Author: Marvin Wilfred GundermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American cockroach
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Proceedings - International Congress of Entomology
Author: Pesticides Documentation Bulletin
Author: Insect Neurophysiological Techniques
Author: T.A. MillerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146129973X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bacteria and viruses at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other. The size and general nature of insects present special problems to the student of entomology. For example, many commercially available instruments are geared to measure in grams, while the forces commonly encountered in studying insects are in the milligram range. Therefore, techniques developed in the study of insects or in those fields concerned with the control of insect pests are often unique. Methods for measuring things are common to all sciences. Advances sometimes depend more on how something was done than on what was measured; indeed a given field often progresses from one technique to another as new methods are discovered, developed, and modified. Just as often, some of these techniques find their way into the classroom when the problems involved have been sufficiently ironed out to permit students to master the manipulations in a few laboratory periods. Many specialized techniques are confined to one specific research labo ratory. Although methods may be considered commonplace where they are used, in another context even the simplest procedures may save con siderable time. It is the purpose of this series (1) to report new develop ments in methodology, (2) to reveal sources of groups who have dealt with and solved particular entomological problems, and (3) to describe ex periments which might be applicable for use in biology laboratory courses.
Biological Rhythms
Author: Jurgen AschoffPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461565529
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Interest in biological rhythms has been traced back more than 2,500]ears to Archilochus, the Greek poet, who in one of his fragments suggests ",,(i,,(VWO'KE o'olos pv{}J.tos txv{}pW7rOVS ~XH" (recognize what rhythm governs man) (Aschoff, 1974). Reference can also be made to the French student of medicine J. J. Virey who, in his thesis of 1814, used for the first time the expression "horloge vivante" (living clock) to describe daily rhythms and to D. C. W. Hufeland (1779) who called the 24-hour period the unit of our natural chronology. However, it was not until the 1930s that real progress was made in the analysis of biological rhythms; and Erwin Bunning was encouraged to publish the first, and still not outdated, monograph in the field in 1958. Two years later, in the middle of exciting discoveries, we took a breather at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Biological Clocks. Its survey on rules considered valid at that time, and Pittendrigh's anticipating view on the temporal organization of living systems, made it a milestone on our way from a more formalistic description of biological rhythms to the understanding of their structural and physiological basis.
The Effects of Temperature and Light on Locomotor Activity of the American Cockroach, Periplaneta Americana L.
Author: Darrel L. MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cockroaches
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Author: Betty Lane Faber