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| List of boxes | |
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| Preface to the fourth edition | |
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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface and acknowledgments for first edition | |
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| The Importance, Diversity and Conservation of Insects | |
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| What is entomology? | |
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| The importance of insects | |
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| Insect biodiversity | |
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| Naming and classification of insects | |
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| Insects in popular culture and commerce | |
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| Insects as food | |
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| Culturing insects | |
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| Insect conservation | |
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| Further reading | |
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| External Anatomy | |
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| The cuticle | |
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| Segmentation and tagmosis | |
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| The head | |
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| The thorax | |
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| The abdomen | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Internal Anatomy and Physiology | |
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| Muscles and locomotion | |
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| The nervous system and co-ordination | |
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| The endocrine system and the function of hormones | |
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| The circulatory system | |
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| The tracheal system and gas exchange | |
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| The gut, digestion, and nutrition | |
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| The excretory system and waste disposal | |
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| Reproductive organs | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sensory Systems and Behavior | |
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| Mechanical stimuli | |
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| Thermal stimuli | |
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| Chemical stimuli | |
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| Insect vision | |
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| Insect behavior | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Reproduction | |
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| Bringing the sexes together | |
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| Courtship | |
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| Sexual selection | |
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| Copulation | |
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| Diversity in genitalic morphology | |
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| Sperm storage fertilization and sex determination | |
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| Sperm competition | |
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| Oviparity (egg-laying) | |
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| Ovoviviparity and viviparity | |
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| Atypical modes of reproduction | |
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| Physiological control of reproduction | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Development and Life Histories | |
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| Growth | |
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| Life-history patterns and phases | |
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| Process and control of molting | |
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| Voltinism | |
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| Diapause | |
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| Dealing with environmental extremes | |
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| Migration | |
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| Polymorphism and polyphenism | |
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| Age-grading | |
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| Environmental effects on development | |
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| Climate and insect distributions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Systematics: Phylogeny and Classification | |
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| Systematics | |
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| The extant Hexapoda | |
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| Class Entognatha: Protura (proturans), Collembola (springtails), and Diplura (diplurans) | |
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| Class Insecta (true insects) | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Biogeography and Evolution | |
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| Insect biogeography | |
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| The antiquity of insects | |
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| Were the first insects aquatic or terrestrial? | |
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| Evolution of wings | |
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| Evolution of metamorphosis | |
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| Insect diversification | |
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| Insect evolution in the Pacific | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Ground-Dwelling Insects | |
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| Insects of litter and soil | |
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| Insects and dead trees or decaying wood | |
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| Insects and dung | |
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| Insect-carrion interactions | |
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| Insect-fungal interactions | |
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| Cavernicolous insects | |
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| Environmental monitoring using ground-dwelling hexapods | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Aquatic Insects | |
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| Taxonomic distribution and terminology | |
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| The evolution of aquatic lifestyles | |
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| Aquatic insects and their oxygen supplies | |
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| The aquatic environment | |
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| Environmental monitoring using aquatic insects | |
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| Functional feeding groups | |
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| Insects of temporary waterbodies | |
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| Insects of the marine intertidal and littoral zones | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insects and Plants | |
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| Coevolutionary interactions between insects and plants | |
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| Phytophagy (or herbivory) | |
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| Insects and plant reproductive biology | |
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| Insects that live mutualistically in specialized plant structures | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Societies | |
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| Subsociality in insects | |
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| Eusociality in insects | |
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| Inquilines and parasites of social insects | |
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| Evolution and maintenance of eusociality | |
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| Success of eusocial insects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Predation and Parasitism | |
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| Prey/host location | |
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| Prey/host acceptance and manipulation | |
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| Prey/host selection and specificity | |
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| Population biology: predator/parasitoid and prey/host abundance | |
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| The evolutionary success of insect predation and parasitism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Insect Defense | |
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| Defense by hiding | |
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| Secondary lines of defense | |
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| Mechanical defenses | |
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| Chemical defenses | |
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| Defense by mimicry | |
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| Collective defenses in gregarious and social insects | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Medical and Veterinary Entomology | |
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| Insect nuisance and phobia | |
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| Venoms and allergens | |
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| Insects as causes and vectors of disease | |
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| Generalized disease cycles | |
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| Pathogens | |
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| Forensic entomology | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Pest Management | |
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| Insects as pests | |
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| The effects of insecticides | |
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| Integrated pest management | |
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| Chemical control | |
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| Biological control | |
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| Host-plant resistance to insects | |
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| Physical control | |
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| Cultural control | |
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| Pheromones and other insect attractants | |
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| Genetic manipulation of insect pests | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Methods in Entomology: Collecting Preservation Curation and Identification | |
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| Collection | |
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| Preservation and curation | |
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| Identification | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Taxoboxes | |
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| Entognatha: non-insect hexapods (Collembola, Diplura and Protura) | |
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| Archaeognatha (or Microcoryphia; bristletails) | |
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| Zygentoma (silverfish) | |
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| Ephemeroptera (mayflies) | |
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| Odonata (damselflies and dragonflies) | |
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| Plecoptera (stoneflies) | |
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| Dermaptera (earwigs) | |
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| Embioptera (Embiidina; embiopterans or webspinners) | |
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| Zoraptera (zorapterans) | |
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| Orthoptera (grasshoppers, locusts, katydids and crickets) | |
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| Phasmatodea (phasmids, stick-insects or walking sticks) | |
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| Grylloblattodea (Grylloblattaria or Notoptera; grylloblattids, or ice or rock crawlers) | |
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| Mantophasmatodea (heelwalkers) | |
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| Mantodea (mantids, mantises, or praying mantids) | |
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| Blattodea: roach families (cockroaches or roaches) | |
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| Blattodea: epifamily Termitoidae (former order Isoptera; termites) | |
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| Psocodea: "Psocoptera" (bark lice and book lice) | |
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| Psocodea: "Phthiraptera" (chewing lice and sucking lice) | |
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| Thysanoptera (thrips) | |
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| Hemiptera (bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittle bugs, treehoppers, aphids, jumping plant lice, scale insects, and whiteflies) | |
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| Neuropterida: Neuroptera (lacewings, owlflies, and antlions), Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies) and Raphidioptera (snakeflies) | |
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| Coleoptera (beetles) | |
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| Strepsiptera (strepsipterans) | |
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| Diptera (flies) | |
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| Mecoptera (hangingflies, scorpionflies, and snowfleas) | |
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| Siphonaptera (fleas) | |
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| Trichoptera (caddisflies) | |
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| Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) | |
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| Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, sawflies, and wood wasps) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| Appendix: A reference guide to orders | |