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Advances in Disease Vector Research

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Kerry F. Harris

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

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Part of the book series: Advances in Disease Vector Research (VECTOR, volume 10)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Kerry F. Harris

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Disease Vector Research

  • Editors: Kerry F. Harris

  • Series Title: Advances in Disease Vector Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2590-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7596-1Published: 17 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2590-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0934-6112

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 412

  • Topics: Zoology, Agriculture, Forestry, Internal Medicine

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