Insect-Plant Interactions (1993)

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays is a biologist turned writer. After growing up in Australia, she received her Ph.D. at the University of London, England, and had a career as an academic entomologist (most recently as a professor in UC Berkeley and then University of Arizona) before obtaining an MFA at the University of Arizona where she is currently a Regents' Professor Emerita. Bernays has published over two hundred scientific papers and books and several popular biology articles, as well as children's books. She has published poems and essays in a variety of literary journals.

Section 1 Biochemistry of Insect-Plant Interactions:

2 Herbivore Oral Secretions are the First Line of Protection Against Plant-Induced Defences 37

3 Insect Detoxification and Sequestration Strategies 77

4 Plant Semiochemicals – Perception and Behavioural Responses by Insects 115

Section 2 Genetics and Genomics of Insect-Plant Interactions:

5 Plant Transcriptomic Responses to Herbivory 155

6 Transcriptome Responses in Herbivorous Insects Towards Host Plant and Toxin Feeding 197

7 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Insects 235

Section 3 Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions:

8 Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Evidence 263

9 Plant-mediated Interactions Among Insects within a Community Ecological Perspective 309

10 The Altitudinal Niche-Breadth Hypothesis in Insect-Plant Interactions 339

11 Revisiting Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution in the Molecular Biology Era 361