Advances in Disease Vector Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Hormonal Regulation of Vitellogenin Biosynthesis in Ticks

   • Yasuo Chinzei, DeMar Taylor

   Pages 1-22

3. The Biology of Theileria Species in Ixodid Ticks in Relation to Parasite Transmission

   • Michael K. Shaw, Alan S. Young

   Pages 23-63

4. A Model for Relationships among the Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus, Its Main Vectors, and Hosts

   • Edward I. Korenberg, Yurii V. Kovalevskii

   Pages 65-92

5. Genetics of Insect Vector Competence for Arboviruses

   • Walter J. Tabachnick

   Pages 93-108

6. The Endocrinology of the Adult Female Mosquito

   • Henry H. Hagedorn

   Pages 109-148

7. Human Malaria Transmission: Reconciling Field and Laboratory Data

   • Thomas R. Burkot, Patricia M. Graves

   Pages 149-182

8. Factors Affecting Filarial Transmission by Simuliids

   • Anthony J. Shelley

   Pages 183-214

9. Strategies for Controlling African Cassava Mosaic Geminivirus

   • J. M. Thresh, G. W. Otim-Nape

   Pages 215-236

10. Practices and Perspective of Control of Papaya Ringspot Virus by Cross Protection

    • Shyi-Dong Yeh, Dennis Gonsalves

    Pages 237-257

11. Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, a Whitefly-Borne Geminivirus of Tomatoes

    • S. Cohen, Y. Antignus

    Pages 259-288

12. Propagative Transmission of Plant and Animal Viruses by Insects: Factors Affecting Vector Specificity and Competence

    • El Desouky Ammar

    Pages 289-331

13. Vectors of Plant Parasites of the Genus Phytomonas (Protozoa, Zoomastigophorea, Kinetoplastida)

    • Erney P. Camargo, Franklin G. Wallace

    Pages 333-359

14. Molecular Biology of Plant Virus-Vector Interactions

    • Roger Hull

    Pages 361-386

15. Back Matter

    Pages 387-412

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Volume 10 of Advances in Disease Vector Research consists of seven chapters on vectors that affect human or animal health and six chapters on plant pathogens and their vectors. In Chapter 1, Yasuo Chinzei and DeMar Taylor discuss hormonal regulation of vitellogenesis in ticks. Many blood sucking insects and ticks transmit pathogens by engorgement, which induces vitellogenesis and oviposition in adult animals. To investigate the pathogen transmission mechanism in vector animals, information on the host physiological and endocrinological conditions after engorgement is useful and important because pathogen development or proliferation occurs in the vector hosts at the same time as the host reproduction. Chinzei and Taylor have shown that in ticks, juvenile hormone (JH) is not involved in the endocrinological processes inducing vitellogenin biosynthesis. Synganglion (tick brain) factor(s) (vitellogenesis inducing factor, VIF) is more important to initiate vitellogenesis after engorgement, and ecdysteroids are also related to induction of vitellogenin synthesis. In their chapter, based mainly on their own experimental data, the authors discuss the characterization of main yolk protein, vitellogenin (Vg) , biosynthesis and processing in the fat body, and hormonal regulation of Vg synthesis in tick systems, including ixodid and argasid ticks.

• Pathogen
• animals
• biology
• development
• ecology
• endocrinology
• epidemiology
• genetics
• insects
• parasites
• phylogeny
• plant pathology
• protozoa
• steroids

• Virus-Vector Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University College Station, USA

  Kerry F. Harris

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