Transgenesis and the management of vector-borne disease
By: edited by Serap Aksoy.
Contributors: Aksoy, Serap.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 627
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780387782249
Subjects: Insects as carriers of disease; Vector control -- Biological control; Insect pests -- Biological control; Transgenic animals; Communicable Disease Control -- methods; Communicable Diseases -- transmission; Gene Transfer Techniques; Insect Vectors -- genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on the state of insect transgenics / David A. O'Brochta and Alfred M. Handler; title: Alphavirus transducing systems / Brian D. Foy and Ken E. Olson; title: Paratransgenesis applied for control of tsetse transmitted sleeping sickness / Serap Aksoy, Brian Weiss, and Geoffrey Attardo; title: Bacteria of the genus Asaia: a potential paratransgenic weapon against malaria / Guido Favia ... [et al.]; title: Proposed uses of transposons in insect and medical biotechnology / Peter W. Atkinson; title: The yin and yang of linkage disequilibrium: mapping of genes and nucleotides; title: Conferring insecticide resistance in insect disease vectors / William C. Black IV ... [et al.]; title: Impact of technological improvements on traditional control strategies / Mark Q. Benedict and Alan S. Robinson; title: Insect population suppression using engineered insects / Luke Alphey ... [et al.]; title: Wolbachia-based technologies for insect pest population control / Kostas Bourtzis; title: Using predictive models to optimize wolbachia-based strategies for vector-borne disease control / Jason L. Rasgon; title: Modifying insect population age structure to control vector-borne disease / Peter E. Cook, Conor J. McMeniman, and Scott L. O'Neill; title: Technological advances to enhance agricultural pest management / Thomas A. Miller, Carol R. Lauzon, and David J. Lampe; title: Applications of mosquito ecology for successful insect transgenesis-based disease prevention programs / Thomas W. Scott ... [et al.].