Description
Here is a new single-volume guide that provides complete discussion of the use of electrophoresis in studies of agricultural pests. It includes contributions from many noted experts in this field, giving the latest information on the study of populations, structure and familial relationships, migration and gene flow, taxonomy, evolution, biotype discrimination and host adaption, resistance to pesticides, the use of electrophoresis to assess parasitism of insects by Hymenopterous parasitoids in biological control programs, and the diets of insect predators. This unique reference covers a wide range of pest organisms from insects, slugs and birds to mammals, and offers insights into such techniques as conventional slab electrophoresis of proteins and enzymes, isoelectric focusing, 2-D electrophoresis, and electrophoresis of DNA, including DNA fingerprinting techniques.Table of ContentElectrophoresis in agricultural pest research - a technique of evolutionary biology, M.F.Claridge; electrophoretic studies - perspectives for population biology, R.J.Berry; genetic studies of species differences and their relevance to the problem of species formation in "Drosophila", R.S.Singh; the complexities of host races and some suggestion for their identification by enzyme electrophoresis, S.H.Berlocher; population genetics studies of fruit flies of economic importance, especially medfly and olive fruit fly, using electrophoretic methods, M.Loukas; host-associated differentiation in armyworms (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) - an allozymic and mitochondrial DNA perspective, D.P.Pashley; the use of electrophoretic data in a study of gene flow in the pest species "Heliothis armigera" (Hubner) and "H. punctigera" Wallengren (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), J.C.Daly; estimation of genetic variability amongst Coleoptera, T.H.Hsiao; electrophoretic studies on geographic populations, host races, and sibling species in insect pests, S.B.J.Menken; study of variation of aphid populations using enzymes and other traits, K.Wohrmann and J.Tomiuk; use of genetic markers (allozymes) to study the structure, overwintering, and dynamics of pest aphid populations, H.D.Loxdale and C.P.Brookes; enzyme differences within species-groups containing pest aphids, R.L.Blackman et al; electrophoretic studies on plant hoppers and leaf hoppers (Homoptera) of agricultural importance, J.Den Hollander; speciation by hybridization in insects, L.Bullini and G.Nascetti; electrophoretic variation in post-harvest agricultural pests, and its implications, D.Wool; the role of electrophoresis in the biochemical detection of insecticide resistance, A.L.Devonshire; genetic fingerprinting of house sparrows, "Passer domesticus", J.H.Wetton and D.T.Parkin; the population structure of "Deroceras reticulatum" (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Limacidae), C.C.Fleming; characterization of populations of pathotypes of potato cyst nematodes, J.Bakker and F.J.Gommers; isoelectric focusing techniques for the identification of plant-parasitic nematodes, M.P.Robinson; the use of electrophoresis in the study of Hymenopteran parasitoids of agricultural pests, W.Powell and M.P.Walton; the use of electrophoresis for determining patterns of predation in arthropods, R.A.Murray et al.
