01082nam a2200133 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000160006024500350007626000500011130000100016152007660017165300110093716428062017-08-16       1985    bl uuuu      00u1 u    #d1 aBLUM, M. S.  aFundamentals insect physiology  aGeorgia: A Wiley-Interciece publicationc1985  a598p.  aInsect physiology has come of age. This discipline began to gain real momentum in the early 1950s when it became evident that insects possessed a host of novel physiological and biochemical systems that made them eminently suitable as experimental animals. Since that time the research pace has been dizzying and exciting, and journals devoted exclusively to insectphysiology have appeared to punctuate this investigative explosion. However, as fruitful as this topic has been, it is safe to say safe to say that the best is vet to come. Insects are now closely identified with maior subjects that were physiologically embryonic only a few decades ago. For example, the ecdysterioidal hormones have been structurally characterized only during that lst 25 years.  aInsect