TY - BOOK TI - The ecology of agricultural pests: biochemical approaches T2 - The Systematic Association Special Volume Series SN - 0412621908 U1 - Ref 632 Sy67e 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - London PB - Chapman & Hall KW - Pests N1 - Introduction – Biochemical approaches to understanding agricultural pests / M.F. Claridge – Biochemical systematics: principles and perspectives for pest management / S. B. J. Menken and L. E. L. Raijmann – Combined use of biochemical, immunological and molecular assays for infection, species identification and resistance detection in field populations of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) / J. Hemingway, G.J. Small, S.W. Lindsay and F.H. Collins – Studies of interactions between alfalfa weevil strains, Wolbachia endosymbionts and parasitoids / T.H. Hsaio – Biochemical approaches to the study of ecological genetics: the role of selection and gene flow in the evolution of insecticide resistance / J.C. Daly and S. Trowell – A molecular and ecological investigation of the large arionid slugs of North-West Europe: the potential for new pests / L.R. Noble and C.S. Jones – Systematics of brown planthopper and related species using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA / P.L. Jones, P. Gacesa and R.K. Butlin – Application of novel molecular markers (DNA) in agricultural entomology / H.D. Loxdale, C.P. Brookes and P.J. de Barro – Location of resistance to Brevicoryne brassicae in wild brassica species / R.A. Cole and T. Fenning – The use of DNA markers in population genetics and ecological studies of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera: Acrididae) / D-X. Zhang and G.M. Hewitt – The use of DNA analysis and the polymerase chain reaction in the study of introduced pests in New Zealand / K.F. Armstrong and S.D. Wratten – Serological analysis of arthropod predation: past, present and future / M.H. Greenstone – Serological diagnosis of parasitism: a monoclonal antibody-based immunodot assay for Microplitis croceipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) / M.K. Stuart and M.H. Greenstone – Polyclonal, monoclonal and engineered antibodies to investigate the role of predation in slug population dynamics / W.O.C. Symondson and J.E. Liddell – The potential of combinatorial antibody libraries in pest-predator relationship studies / J.E. Liddell and W.O.C. Symondson – Serological analysis of predators of Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) eggs in sorghum-pigeonpea intercropping at ICRISAT, India: a preliminary field study / L. Sigsgaard – Using gut content immunoassays to evaluate predaceous biological control agents: a case study / J.R. Hagler and S.E. Naranjo – An environmental risk assessment for release of an exotic microsporidium for European corn borer control in North America / D.W. Ragsdale and C.T. Oien – Progress in quantifying predation using antibody techniques / K.D. Sunderland – Electrophoretic approaches to predator-prey interactions / M.G. Solomon, J.D. Fitzgerald and R.A. Murray – Genetics of esterases in laboratory and feral cotton boll weevils, Anthonomus grandis Boheman / C.J. Biggers, B.R. Jones, H.R. Bancroft and L.A. Dickey – Practical applications for techniques to determine the nutritional state and age of field-caught tsetse flies / P.A. Langley N2 - "The symposium was intentionally techniques-based, and designed to compare experience with a range of biochemical and molecular approaches to understanding and measuring interactions between pests, their hosts, their predators and other organisms, as well as their population genetics, dynamics and systematics." ER -