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INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Edited by LAWRENCE I. GILBERT

1. Insect Genomics

Subba R.Palli, Hua Bai, and J. Wigginton

2. Insect MicroRNAs: From Molecular Mechanisms to Biological Roles

Xavier Belles, Alexandre S. Cristino, Erica D. Tanaka, Mercedes Rubio, and Maria-Dolors Piulachs

3. Insect Transposable Elements

Zhijian Tu

4. Transposable Elements for Insect Transformation

Alfred M. Handler and David A. O’Brochta

5. Cuticular Proteins

Judith H. Willis, Nikos C. Papandreou, Vassiliki A. Iconomidou, Stavros J. Hamodrakas,

6. Cuticular sclerotization and tanning

Svend Olaf Andersen

7. Chitin Metabolism in Insects

Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Hans Merzendorfer, Yasuyuki Arakane, and Karl J. Kramer

8. Insect CYP genes and P450 enzymes

René Feyereisen

9. Lipid Transport

D J Van der Horst and R O Ryan

10. Insect Proteases

Michael R. Kanost and Rollie J. Clem

11. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Digestion

W R Terra and C Ferreira

12. Programmed Cell Death in Insects

Susan E. Fahrbach, John R. Nambu, and Lawrence M. Schwartz

13. Regulation of Insect Development by TGF-ß Signaling

Philip A. Jensen

14. Insect Immunology

J W Park and B L Lee

15. Molecular and Neural Control of Insect Circadian Rhythms

Yong Zhang and Patrick Emery