Overview

"""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."

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Author:   M. J. Lehane
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9780044454106

ISBN 10:   0044454104
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   June 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

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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