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Book SynopsisThe great importance of mosquitoes lies in their role as transmitters of pathogens and parasites, and in their use as experimental animals well suited to laboratory investigations into aspects of biochemistry, physiology and behaviour. The largest part of this latest volume of The Biology of Mosquitoes concerns interactions between mosquitoes and viruses and the transmission of arboviruses to their vertebrate hosts, while the remainder concerns symbiotic interactions between mosquitoes and bacteria. The introduction provides a timely review of the first major development in mosquito taxonomy for several decades. Further chapters describe the interactions between mosquitoes and the viruses that infect them, the transmission and epidemiology of seven very important arboviruses, and the biology of bacteria that are important control agents or of great biological interest. Like the earlier volumes, Volume 3 combines recent information with earlier important findings from field and laboratory to provide the broadest coverage available on the subject.
Table of Contentsa: Introduction: The traditional and revised classifications of aedine mosquitoes Chapter 41: Host-parasite interactions Chapter 42: Immune responses of mosquitoes Chapter 43: Viruses Chapter 44: Arboviruses - characteristics and concepts Chapter 45: Arboviruses - case studies of transmission 45a: Transmission of Eastern equine encephalitis virus 45b: Transmission of dengue viruses 45c: Transmission of yellow fever virus 45d: Transmission of Japanese encephalitis virus 45e: Transmission of La Crosse virus 45f: Transmission of Rift Valley fever virus 45g: Transmission of West Nile virus Chapter 46: Pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria 46a: Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis 46b: Lysinibacillus sphaericus 46c: Wolbachia pipientis
