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Transformation tumorales
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Year: 1968 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris : Masson et cie,

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Britain's plant galls
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ISBN: 1400850797 9781400850792 9781903657430 1903657431 Year: 2011 Publisher: Old Basing

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This book has been produced with the aim of stimulating the general naturalist to take a closer look at the bumps and lumps that make up the fascinating world of plant galls. Induced by a variety of insects and other organisms and ranging from tiny pimples to bizarre and often very attractive and exquisitely sculptured growths, plant galls are mystery to many people, but they offer a fascinating field of study for both botanists and zoologists. Galls can be found on a very wide range of both woody and herbaceous plants, with over 50 different kinds occurring on Britain's oak trees alone, and there is still much to be learned about even the commonest examples. An introduction to the nature of plant galls and their formation Brief descriptions of some of the organisms that cause or induce galls Superb photographs of just over 200 of the commonest or most conspicuous of Britain's 1,000 or so plant galls, arranged according to their host plants to aid field identification Descriptions of these galls and the life histories of the organisms that cause them


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Morphology and physiology of plant tumors
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Year: 1958 Publisher: Wien : Springer,

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Molecular biology of plant tumors.
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ISBN: 0123943809 9780123943804 Year: 1982 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Academic press


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Plant galls : organisms, interactions, populations
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ISBN: 0198577699 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,


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Neotropical Insect Galls
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ISBN: 9401787832 9401787824 1322175128 Year: 2014 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This book focuses on one of the most sophisticated guild herbivorous insects, the gall inducing insects. They trespass the defensive lines of their host plants, engineer the host to provide their larvae with shelter against the external harsh environment and natural enemies and in addition provide better food to their larvae. Not surprisingly the gall is often regarded as an extended phenotype of the inducing insect. The reader will find in this book the most updated ecological and evolutionary information on the biogeopgraphy of galling insects in the New World Tropics. Topics range from the very first reactions of the host plant cells to the gall inducing larvae up to the natural enemies that control galling populations, including galling insect relationships with habitats that ultimately result in their spatial distribution and diversity. The book also addresses many important questions in galling studies, such as the role of superhosts, the host plant defenses to galling, and the importance of habitat harshness at the canopy of rain forests, among many other issues. Finally, the book also describes the galling richness in many different Neotropical vegetation types. The reader will find that the information depicted helps to challenge former hypohteses on their geography and diversity, provides new syntheses and open new perspsectives for the study of this spectacular herbivore guild.

Galling Arthropods and Their Associates : Ecology and Evolution
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ISBN: 1280800402 9786610800407 4431321853 4431321845 4431546642 Year: 2006 Publisher: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,

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This book is the result of an international symposium on gall-inducing arthropods, which was held September 5-9, 2005, in Kyoto, Japan. It was organized as the 4th international symposium on gall-inducing insects and as the symposium of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (lUFRO) working group, 7.03.02, Gall-Inducing Insects. The book addresses recent developments in the ecology, evolution, systematics, physiology, and biodiversity of gall-inducing arthropods, with individual contri­butions ranging in scope from detailed descriptions to profoundly synthetic stud­ies. One underlying theme of the book is the various impacts of gall induction that indirectly affect insect communities on the host plant. The other important contri­bution is the highly intricate and dynamic interactions between galling arthropods and their uniquely specialized host plants. Included also are chapters that discuss biodiversity and distribution patterns of gall-inducing arthropods, and biological control of invasive gall-inducing arthropods and of invasive trees. We believe that this book makes an important contribution to the knowledge of galling arthropods and their associates and to the development of robust, general principles of the ecology and evolution of these organisms.

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