作者: Nancy E. Beckage
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5983-2_1
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摘要: Many parasites and pathogens alter the growth, behavior, development of insect hosts in a dramatic fashion. The invader often initially remains cryptic, until its presence later becomes obvious as host suffers major pigmetation, or morphological anomalies, shows alterations sexual differentiation behavior; develops reproductive disturbances such castration loss fecundity (see Chapters 8,9, 12; also Moore, 1993,1995; Adamo et al., 1997).