"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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Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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line and hlf-tone illustrations, tables, references, index
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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978-0-04-445410-6 (9780044454106)
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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.
