Biology of blood-sucking insects
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Biology of blood-sucking insects
HarperCollins Academic, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-279) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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.
Table of Contents
- 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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