Biology, Ecology, and
Evolution of Gall-inducing Arthropods
A. Raman: University of Sydney, Orange, Australia
Carl W. Schaefer: Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Toni M. Withers: Forest Health Division, Forest Research, Rotorua,
New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-57808-262-9; 2005; 780 pages(2 vols.); US $ 165.80
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This monograph, a
set of 2 volumes places greater emphasis on the biology, behavior, and
evolution of the gall-inducing arthropod and of associated organisms; the
dynamics of the host-plant response remain in the background. The book deals
with the biology and ecology of Acarines, Hemipteroids, Coleopteroids and
Hymenopteroids. It also includes chapters on the biology, ecology, and
evolution of several minor or less-known groups of gall inducers. A special
effort has been made to incorporate extensive chapters on gall-inducing
Coleoptera, chloropids, and chalcidoids including the braconids and fig
wasps. Chapters on whiteflies and dipteran leafminers should broaden our
understanding of the galling habit in other groups of arthropods. In
addition to the biological and ecological informa-tion on these arthropods,
each chapter also provides information on their evolution, in most
instances, viewed against the evolution of their host plants.
This book will be relevant and useful to scientists working in the fields of
entomology, acarology, and nematology studying gall-inducing organisms;
ecologists using plant-feeding arthropods and nematodes as their model
systems and studying complex community interactions; physiologists studying
arthropod or nematode nutrition and reproduction; plant morphologists
studying abnormal growths; plant physiologists working on the nutrient
transport mechanisms; plant developmental biologists studying the mechanisms
by which plant structures are formed; biologists studying biological control
of weeds and pest arthropods; and evolutionary biologists studying the
principles of herbivory and the evolution of phytophagous arthropods and
their host plants. Agricultural and forest entomologists will find the
nutritional and reproductive behaviors discussed in this book useful in
designing management practices.
Contents : Volume
1. Galls and Gall-inducing Arthropods: An Overview of their
Biology, Ecology, and Evolution:
A. Raman et al.
.
Biology of Gall-inducing Acari:
George N. Oldfield.
Gall-inducing Thrips: An Evolutionary Perspective:
Laurence A. Mound
and
David C. Morris. Gall-inducing Aphids: Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution:
David Wool. Gall-inducing
Whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae):
David N. Byrne.
Gall-inducing Heteropterans (Hemiptera):
Carl W. Schaefer.
Gall-inducing Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea):
Penny
J. Gullan et al.
. Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of
Gall-inducing Psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea):
Daniel Burckhardt..
Gall-inducing Coleoptera:
Boris A. Korotyaev et al.
.
Biology and Ecology of Gall-inducing Cecidomyiidae (Diptera):
Junichi
Yukawa and
Odette Rohfritsch. Phylogeny of Gall
Midges (Cecidomyiidae):
Hans C. Roskam. Phylogenetic
Relationships, Ecology, and Ecological Genetics of Cecidogenous Tephritidae:
Valery Korneyev et al.
. The Biology, Ecology and
Evolution of Shoot Flies (Diptera: Chloropidae):
Luc De Bruyn
Volume 2. Dipteran Leaf Miners:
Martin Dempewolf.
Gall-inducing Lepidoptera:
William E. Miller. Biology,
Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-inducing Sawflies (Hymenoptera:
Tenthredinidae and Xyelidae):
Heikki Roininen et al.
.
Biology of Gall Inducers and Evolution of Gall Induction in Chalcidoidea
(Hymenoptera: Eulophidae, Eurytomidae, Pteromalidae, Tanaostigmatidae,
Torymidae):
John LaSalle. Biology, Ecology and
Evolution of Fig-pollinating Wasps (Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae):
Finn
Kjellberg et al.
. Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of
Gall-inducing Cynipidae:
György Csóka et al.
.
Gall Flies (diptera: Fergusoninidae) on Myrtaceae: A Mutualistic Association
between Flies and Nematodes:
Gary S. Taylor et al.
.
Diversity of Gall-inducing Arthropods of Costa Rica:
Paul E. Hanson
and
Jorge Gómez-Laurito. Habitat-driven Effects
on the Diversity of Gall-inducing Insects in the Brazilian Cerrado:
G.
Wilson Fernandes et al.
. Gall-inducing Arthropods Used in
the Biological Control of Weeds:
R. Muniappan and
Rachel E.
McFadyen. Dual Aseptic Culture of Gall-inducing Arthropods
and their Host Plants:
Rolf Beiderbeck.
