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 373 Insect Detoxification and Sequestration Strategies 774 Plant Semiochemicals – Perception and Behavioural Responses by Insects 115Section 2 Genetics and Genomics of Insect-Plant Interactions:5 Plant Transcriptomic Responses to Herbivory 1556 Transcriptome Responses in Herbivorous Insects Towards Host Plant and Toxin Feeding 1977 Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Insects 235Section 3 Ecology and Evolution of Insect-Plant Interactions:8 Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Evidence 2639 Plant-mediated Interactions Among Insects within a Community Ecological Perspective 30910 The Altitudinal Niche-Breadth Hypothesis in Insect-Plant Interactions 33911 Revisiting Plant-Herbivore Co-Evolution in the Molecular Biology Era 361