Progress in Mosquito Research

Herausgegeben:Raikhel, Alexander S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Progress in Mosquito Research provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists, and insect chemists, with Volume 51 focusing on recent progress in mosquito research.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Insect Physiology Volume 51
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: S0065-2806(16)X0003-3
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 26mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 893g
• ISBN-13: 9780128024577
• Artikelnr.: 45153761

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors

Preface

Chapter One: Progress in Gene Editing Transgenesis Genome Manipulation in Mosquitoes

Chapter Two: Sex Determination in Mosquitoes

Chapter Three: Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Mating Systems in Mosquitoes

Chapter Four: The Role of Juvenile Hormone in Mosquito Development and Reproduction

Chapter Five: Regulation of Reproductive Processes in Female Mosquitoes

Chapter Six: Mosquito Peptide Hormones: Diversity, Production, and Function

Chapter Seven: Functions of Small RNAs in Mosquitoes

Chapter Eight: The Complement System of Malaria Vector Mosquitoes

Chapter Nine: Influences of the Mosquito Microbiota on Vector Competence

Chapter Ten: Mosquito Sensory Systems

Chapter Eleven: Molecular Physiology of Mosquito Diapause

Chapter Twelve: Nitrogen Metabolism in Mosquitoes: New Insights into the Nitrogen Metabolism in Blood-Fed Mosquitoes

Chapter Thirteen: Renal Excretory Processes in Mosquitoes

Index

Rezensionen

"This book provides an excellent overview of the recent advances in mosquito biology.

Overall, this is a well-written and well-organized book, and it represents an excellent resource on mosquito physiology for students and professionals working in mosquito biology as well as mosquito control." --The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.92, No. 4