• ISBN13: 9781847558084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture
• Publisher: Royal Society of Che
• Publisher Imprint: RSC
• Publication Date: January 1, 2010
• Pages: 380
• Original Price: GBP 45.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 708 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Chemistry / Organic, Agriculture / General, and Life Sciences / Biochemistry

From the Back Cover
Thoroughly revised and up-dated, this advanced edition of Biosynthesis in Insects is still the only book on the growing subject of biosynthesis in insects. The new edition is directed more towards researchers and the end of chapter problems have been replaced by references to important research. It covers new developments from recent years including material on molecular biology, genetics, and enzymes. As in the first edition, the book is organized by biosynthetic routes, (fatty acids, polyketides, terpenes, phenyl-C3 types), as far as this system allows. Later chapters are based on type of compound or function, including pigments and venoms. The book is fully illustrated with formulae, reaction schemes, diagrams and illustrations. It contains many references to key aspects of the literature and contains suggestions for background and further reading for those not familiar with certain aspects of the subject, (which range from mechanistic organic chemistry through biochemistry, chemical ecology, to evolution and molecular biology). Not only are insects considered but where it is available, information about biosynthesis in related arthropods is provided, such as millipedes, centipedes, mites, ticks, spiders and opilionids. The reader has here an introduction to a wide range of insect metabolites, and an in-depth consideration of how, and where they are made. It is a valuable source of information for those working in the fields of chemical ecology, entomology, social organisation, plant protection and pesticides.

E David Morgan is in the Chemical Ecology Group, Lennard-Jones Laboratory at Keele University, UK. He has worked at the National Institute for Medical Research, the Shell Chemical Company, and subsequently became Lecturer, Reader and Professor, now Emeritus Professor at Keele University. In 2011 Professor Morgan was awarded an honorary DSc by Memorial University, Canada.