Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods
Emphasis is placed on the elaborate cuticular matrices in insects and crustaceans, spider and insect silks, sialomes of phytophagous and blood-feeding arthropods as well as on secretions of male and female accessory glands. Focus is placed largely on inse
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Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods
Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods
Ephraim Cohen • Bernard Moussian Editors
Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods
Editors Ephraim Cohen Department of Entomology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rehovot, Israel
Bernard Moussian Genetik der Tiere Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen Tübingen, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-40738-8 ISBN 978-3-319-40740-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40740-1
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Preface
Extracellular Composite Matrices in Arthropods The book contains comprehensive contributions on extracellular composite matrices in arthropods. The building blocks of such matrices are formed in and secreted by single-layered epithelial cells into exterior domains where their final assembly or transformation takes place. Emphasis is placed largely on insects, due to the extensive body of published research that in part is the result of available whole genome sequences of several model species (in particular Drosophila melanogaster) and accessible ESTs for other species. Such advances have facilitated fundamental insights into genomic, proteomic, and molecular-based physiology. The book includes also chapters on noninsect arthropod biocomposites such as the mineralized crustacean cuticles (Chap. 5), spider silks (Chaps. 12 and 13), and salivary gland secretion of ticks (Chap. 17). However, it is appropriate to acknowledge that the book excludes arthropod toxins and venoms that merit a sizable separate volume. The phylum Arthropoda that arose about 550–600 MYA is t
