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Book SynopsisOnly one generation ago, entomology was a proudly isolated discipline. In Comstock Hall, the building of the Department of Entomology at Cornell University where I was first introduced to experimental science in the laboratory of Tom Eisner, those of us interested in the chemistry of life felt like interlopers. In the 35 years that have elapsed since then, all of biology has changed, and entomology with it. Arrogant molecular biologists and resentful classical biologists might think that what has happened is a hostile take-over of biology by molecular biology. But they are wrong. More and more we now understand that the events were happier and much more exciting, amounting to a new synthesis. Molecular Biology, which was initially focused on the simplest of organisms, bacteria and viruses, broke out of its confines after the initial fundamental questions were answered - the struc
Table of ContentsSection 1: Care and maintenance of insect colonies. Section 2: Experimental infection of insect vectors. Section 3: Basic methods in isolating, cloning and characterising nucleic acids and their products. Section 4: Genome mapping techniques. Section 5: Insect identification techniques. Section 6: Transformation techniques and viral systems. Section 7: Cell and organ culture. Section 8: Insect symbionts. Index.
