Ticks
Subtitle: biology, disease, and control
By: edited by Alan S. Bowman, Patricia. A. Nuttall.
Contributors: Bowman, Alan. S.; Nuttall, Patricia A.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780521867610
Subjects: Ticks as carriers of disease; Ticks; Tick-Borne Diseases; Tick Control -- methods; Ticks -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names / by S.C. Barker and A. Murrell; title: The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics / by S.e. Randolph; title: Tick salivary glands : the physiology of tick water-balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission / by A.s. Bowman, A. Ball, and J.R. Sauer; title: Tick saliva : from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics / by J.M. Anderson And J.G. Valenzuela; title: Tick toxins : perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks / by B.J. Mans, R. Gothe, and A.W.H. Neitz; title: Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins / by L. Grubhoffer ... [et al.]; title: Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction / by H.H. Rees; title: Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders, and insects : a comparative study / by W.R. Kaufman; title: Tick immunobiology / by M. Brossard and S.K. Wikel; title: Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens / by P.A. Nuttall and M. Labuda; title: Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America / by J. Piesman and L. Gern, H.H. Rees; title: Viruses transmitted by ticks / by M. Labuda and P.A. Nuttall; title: Babesiosis of cattle / by R. Bock ... [et al.]; title: Theileria : life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector / by R. Bishop ... [et al.]; title: Characterization of the tick-pathogen-host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia anaplasma marginale / by K.M. Kocan, J. de la Fuente, and E. F. Blouin; title: Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections / by S.R. Telford III and H.K. Goethert; title: Analyzing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS / by M. Daniel, J. Kolar, and P. Zeman; title: Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide-resistance / by J.E. George, J.M. Pound, and R.B. Davey; title: Anti-tick vaccines / by P. Willadsen; title: Anti-tick biological control agents : assessment and future perspectives / by M. Samish, H. Ginsberg, and I. Glazer; title: Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control / by D.E. Sonnenshine.