Overview
Consolidates up-to-date and wide-ranging studies of the cricket
Provides detailed protocols that allow scientists to easily begin cricket work in their labs
Gives readers a deep understanding of the biology of crickets/Orthopterans for further applications in food production and pest management
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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 “food conversion efficiency”, 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.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Development and Regeneration
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Physiology, Nervous System, and Behavior
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hadley Wilson Horch
Affiliation: Bowdoin College
Address: 6500 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
Taro Mito
Affiliation: Tokushima University
Address: 2-1 Minami-jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima City 770-8506, Japan
Aleksandar Popadić
Affiliation: Wayne State University
Address: Biological Sciences Department, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Hideyo Ohuchi
Affiliation: Okayama University, Department of Cytology and Histology
Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Address: 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama City 700-8558, Japan
Sumihare Noji
Affiliation: Tokushima University
Address: 2-14 Shinkura-cho, Tokushiam City 770-8501, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Cricket as a Model Organism
Book Subtitle: Development, Regeneration, and Behavior
Editors: Hadley Wilson Horch, Taro Mito, Aleksandar Popadić, Hideyo Ohuchi, Sumihare Noji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56478-2
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan KK 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56476-8Published: 18 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56798-1Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-56478-2Published: 09 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 376
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Animal Models, Behavioral Sciences, Developmental Biology, Food Science