Biology of blood-sucking insects

著者

    • Lehane, M. J.

書誌事項

Biology of blood-sucking insects

M.J. Lehane

HarperCollins Academic, 1991

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  • P/B

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-279) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

"Biology of Blood Sucking Insects" is a "topic-led" investigation of the biological themes common to the lives of haematophagous insects. Chapters cover the importance of blood-sucking insects and their economic and socialimpact; the evolution of the blood-sucking habit, feeding preferences, and host locations; the ingestion of blood by different groups and their various physiological adaptations; host-insect interactions and parasites transmitted by blood-sucking insects; and the different groups of insects mentioned in the text, serving as a useful quick-reference section.

目次

  • Part 1 The importance of blood-sucking insects. Part 2 The evolution of the blood-sucking habit: prolonged close association with vertebrates
  • morphological pre-adaptation for piercing. Part 3 Feeding preferences of blood-sucking insects: host choice
  • host choice and species complexes. Part 4 Location of the host: the behavioural framework of host location
  • appetitive searching
  • activation and orientation
  • attraction
  • movement between hosts. Part 5 Ingestion of the blood meal: vertebrate haemostasis
  • insect anti-haemostatic factors
  • probing stimulants
  • phagostimulants
  • mouthparts
  • blood intake. Part 6 Managing the blood meal: midgut anatomy
  • the blood meal
  • gonotrophic concordance
  • nutrition
  • host hormones in the blood meal
  • partitioning of resources from the blood meal
  • autogeny. Part 7 Host - insect interactions: insect distribution on the surface of the host
  • morphological specializations for life on the host
  • host immune responses to insect salivary secretions
  • behavioural defences of the host
  • density dependent effects on feeding success. Part 8 Transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects: transmission routes
  • specificity in vector-parasite relationships
  • origin of vector parasite relationships.

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