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Second Edition
Edited By
William Marquardt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A.
Description
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 experts in the field. The first edition of Biology of Disease Vectors was a landmark text, and this
edition promises to have even more impact as a reference for current thought and techniques in vector biology.
Audience
medical entomologists; advanced students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty as well as grad students and some biology and zoology undergraduates;
pre-med students; federal agencies and biotechnology companies; John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and World Health Organization
Contents
I. Introduction and Vectors
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 Biting Midges, The Ceratopogonidae (Diptera)
Black Flies, the Simuliidae
Phlebotamine Sand Flies, the Psychodidae
Tsetse Flies, the
Glossinidae, and Transmission of African Trypanosomes
II. Epidemiology and Surveillance
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
III. Physiology of Insects and Acarines
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
IV. Vector Genetics
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
V. Molecular
Biology of Insects and Acarines
A Brief Introduction to Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Transmission of Vector-Borne Pathogens
Cultured
Cells as A Tool for 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
VI. Control of Insects and Acarines
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
VII. Special Methods
as Applied to Vectors of Disease Agents
Transgenic Mosquitoes and DNA Research Safeguards
Gene Bank Data for Hematophagous 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 Black Fies
Care, Maintenance, and Experimental Infection of Phlebotomine
Sand Flies
Care, Maintenance, and Experimental Infection of Tsetse Flies
Index
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 816 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-473276-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-473276-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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