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Biology of disease vectors ...
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monografia Rebiun05080005 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun05080005 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 070910s2005 ne ab ob 001 0 eng d 9780080494067 0080494064 UAM 991008077277504211 NT. eng. NT. OCLCQ. YDXCP. OCLCQ. UNAV 614.4/32 22 Biology of disease vectors Recurso electrónico] edited by William C. Marquardt ; section editors, Boris C. Kondratieff ... [et al.]. 2nd ed Amsterdam Boston Elsevier Academic Press c2005 Amsterdam Boston Amsterdam Boston Elsevier Academic Press xxiii, 785 p. il., maps xxiii, 785 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice 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 Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Marquardt, William C. Kondratieff, B. C. Boris C.)