Olfaction in vector-host interactions:

This is a multi-authored book with a focus on the role of olfaction (the sense of smell) in the multitude of interactions between arthropods and their blood hosts. Blood-feeding arthropods (mostly insects, ticks and mites) depend on a vertebrate host for survival and reproduction. Their evolutionary...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic 2010
Schriftenreihe:Ecology and control of vector-borne diseases v. 2
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Zusammenfassung:This is a multi-authored book with a focus on the role of olfaction (the sense of smell) in the multitude of interactions between arthropods and their blood hosts. Blood-feeding arthropods (mostly insects, ticks and mites) depend on a vertebrate host for survival and reproduction. Their evolutionary success depends on how efficiently they can detect the presence of a host and actively locate it to obtain a blood meal. This is the domain of olfaction, which is perhaps the most important mode of signal exchange between hosts and blood-feeding arthropods that visit them. Important human and animal diseases like malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, bluetongue and trypanosomiasis are transmitted between humans and/or animals as a direct outcome of olfactory responses mediated by host odours. Increased understanding of olfaction and how this governs interactions between arthropods and blood hosts will enable the development of novel strategies to disrupt th
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Strategic use of chemical ecology for vector-borne disease control -- Molecular regulation of olfaction in mosquitoes -- Olfactory physiology of blood-feeding vector mosquitoes -- Odour coding and neural connections -- Detection of carbon dioxide and its role in the orientation to hosts by haematophagous insects -- Host finding by female mosquitoes: mechanisms of orientation to host odours and other cues -- Host-seeking behaviour of mosquitoes: responses to olfactory stimuli in the laboratory -- Host-seeking behaviour of afrotropical anophelines: field and semi-field studies -- Chemical ecology of sandflies -- Understanding and exploiting olfaction for the surveillance and control of Culicoides biting midges -- Black fly interactions with their hosts -- Olfaction in Glossina-host interactions: a tale of two tsetse -- Behavioural modalities of non-vector biting diptera: from olfaction to feeding -- Role of olfaction in host seeking of triatomine bugs -- Chemical ecology of tick-host interactions -- Parasite-mediated enhancement of transmission by haematophagous insects -- Practical application of olfactory cues for monitoring and control of Aedes aegypti in Brazil: a case study -- Exploitation of olfactory-mediated behaviour
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ISBN:9086866980
9789086866984
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-698-4

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