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| Other authors / contributors: | Horch, Hadley Wilson, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9784431564782
4431564780
9784431564768
4431564764
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 5, 2018).
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| Summary: | "This book covers a broad range of topics about the cricket from its development, regeneration, physiology, nervous system, and behavior with remarkable recent updates by adapting the new, sophisticated molecular techniques including RNAi and other genome editing methods. It also provides detailed protocols on an array of topics and for basic experiments on the cricket. While the cricket has been one of the best models for neuroethological studies over the past 60 years, it has now become the most important system for studying basal hemimetabolous insects. The studies of Gryllus and related species of cricket will yield insight into evolutionary features that are not evident in other insect model systems, which mainly focus on holometabolous insects such as Drosophila, Tribolium, and Bombyx. Research on crickets and grasshoppers will be important for the development of pest-control strategies, given that some of the most notorious pests also belong to the order Orthoptera. At the same time, crickets possess an enormously high ℓ́ℓfood conversion efficiencyℓ́ℓ, making them a potentially important food source for an ever-expanding human population. This volume provides a comprehensive source of information as well as potential new applications in pest management and food production of the cricket. It will inspire scientists in various disciplines to use the cricket model system to investigate interesting and innovative questions."--Provided by publisher.
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| Other form: | Print version: Cricket as a model organism. Tokyo : Springer Nature, [2017] 9784431564768
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-4-431-56478-2
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