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Umfang: 1 online resource (811 p.)

Ausgabe: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 1-281-01208-4 , 9786611012083 , 0-08-049406-4

Inhalt: Biology of Disease Vectors presents a comprehensive and advanced discussion of disease vectors and what the future may hold for their control. This edition examines the control of disease vectors through topics such as general biological requirements of vectors, epidemiology, physiology and molecular biology, genetics, principles of control and insecticide resistance. Methods of maintaining vectors in the laboratory are also described in detail.No other single volume includes both basic information on vectors, as well as chapters on cutting-edge topics, authored by the leading expert

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , The arthropods -- Evolution of arthropod disease vectors -- Mites and disease -- Ticks, the ixodida -- Kissing bugs and bedbugs, the heteroptera -- Lice, the phthiraptera -- Fleas, the siphonaptera -- Introduction to the diptera -- Mosquitoes, the culicidae -- The bitting midges, the ceratopogonidae (diptera) -- Black flies, the simuliidae -- Phlebotamine sand flies, the psychodiade -- Tsetse flies, the glossinidae, and transmission of the African trypanosomes -- Natural cycles of vector-borne pathogens -- Population biology as a tool to study vector-borne diseases -- Use of geographic information system methods in the study of vector-borne diseases -- Invasive species and emerging vector-borne infections -- Molecular techniques for epidemiology and the evolution of arthropod-borne pathogens -- Surveillance of vector-borne diseases -- Vector olfaction and behavior -- The adult midgut: structure and function -- The peritrophic matrix of hematophagous insects -- Vector nutrition and energy metabolism -- Mosquito endocrinology -- Vitellogenesis of disease vectors, from physiology to genes -- Osmotic and ionic regulation by mosquitoes -- Immune responses of vectors --Blood-feeding arthropod salivary glands and saliva -- Systematic relationships among disease vectors -- Genetics of vector competence -- Genome evolution in mosquitoes -- Population genetics of disease vectors -- Molecular taxonomy and systematics of arthropod vectors -- A brief introduction to molecular biology, genomics, and transmission of vector-borne pathogens -- , Cultured cells as a tool of analysis of gene expression -- Genomics and gene expression in vectors -- Analysis of stage- and tissue-specific gene expression in insect vectors -- Gene expression in acarines -- Virus-induced, transient expression of genes in mosquitoes -- Stable transformation of vector species -- Chemical control of vectors and mechanisms of resistance -- Environmental management for vector control -- Biological control of mosquitoes -- Genetic control of vectors -- Immunological control of vectors -- Transgenic mosquitoes and DNA research safeguards -- Gene bank data for hamatophagous arthropods -- The containment of arthropod vectors -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infestation of ticks in the laboratory setting -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of human body lice -- Care, maintenance, and handling of infected triatomines -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of fleas (siphonaptera) -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of mosquitoes -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of biting midges -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of phlebotomine sand flies -- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of tsetse flies. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-12-473276-3

Sprache: Englisch