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This book covers a broad range of topics about the cricket from its development, regeneration, physiology, nervous system, and behavior with remarkable recent updates by adapting the new, sophisticated molecular techniques including RNAi and other genome editing methods. It also provides detailed protocols on an array of topics and for basic experiments on the cricket.While the cricket has been one of the best models for neuroethological studies over the past 60 years, it has now become the most important system for studying basal hemimetabolous insects. The studies of Gryllus and related species of cricket will yield insight into evolutionary features that are not evident in other insect model systems, which mainly focus on holometabolous insects such as Drosophila, Tribolium, and Bombyx. Research on crickets and grasshoppers will be important for the development of pest-control strategies, given that some of the most notorious pests also belong to the order Orthoptera. At the same time, crickets possess an enormously high “food conversion efficiency”, making them a potentially important food source for an ever-expanding human population.This volume provides a comprehensive source of information as well as potential new applications in pest management and food production of the cricket. It will inspire scientists in various disciplines to use the cricket model system to investigate interesting and innovative questions.

The book is about a cricket named Hoppy who lives in a village along the countryside. He has heard stories from his grandfather about life in the big city where humans live and decides to go there following a road he has never seen. Once there, he meets up with another cricket named Tappy and together they try and survive among the people and hazards of living in a city being so small. Finally they have had enough and eventually make their way back to the countryside. This story is a lesson for children on how good it is to live at home and not running away. It teaches them the hardships other people have living in a tough environment with no support from anyone. The book has wonderful illustrations throughout with an eye-opening story. Im sure you and your kids will enjoy this very much and I hope to have my next book out soon.