Biology of disease vectors. (©2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by William C. Marquardt.
• Other Names: Marquardt, William C; Kondratieff, B. C (Boris C.)
• Contents: 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.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam Boston : Elsevier Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 785 pages), illustrations (some color), maps
• Subjects: 614.4/32; Insects as carriers of disease; Insects -- Molecular aspects; Insect Vectors; Molecular Biology; Insectes (Vecteurs de maladies); Insectes -- Aspect moléculaire; MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment; MEDICAL -- Epidemiology; Insects as carriers of disease; Insects -- Molecular aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080494067; 0080494064
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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