Biology of Disease Vectors
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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.
Key Features
Current - each chapter represents the present state of knowledge in the subject area
Authoritative - authors include leading researchers in the field
Complete - provides both independent investigator and the student with a single reference volume which adopts an explicitly evolutionary viewpoint throuoghout all chapters.
Useful - conceptual frameworks for all subject areas include crucial information needed for application to difficult problems of controlling vector-borne diseases
Authoritative - authors include leading researchers in the field
Complete - provides both independent investigator and the student with a single reference volume which adopts an explicitly evolutionary viewpoint throuoghout all chapters.
Useful - conceptual frameworks for all subject areas include crucial information needed for application to difficult problems of controlling vector-borne diseases
Readership
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
Table of 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 816
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2004
- Published: December 2, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080494067
About the Editor
William Marquardt
William C. Marquardt is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, where he has been affiliated since 1966. Professor Marquardt received his Ph.d. from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1954. He was a member of the Center of Zoonoses Research at the Unversity of Illinois from 1962-66 and Associate Director of the Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University from 1987 to 1995. His publications include approximately 75 refereed papers in periodicals, four books, as well as book reviews and chapters.
Affiliations and Expertise
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, U.S.A.