The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects
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Product details:
- Edition number 2, Revised
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 9 June 2005
- ISBN 9780521543958
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 226x152x17 mm
- Weight 565 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 91 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Second edition looks at the favourable biological modifications of these insects and also considers the economical, social and medical aspects.
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Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most debilitating diseases to man including malaria, sleeping sickness, filariasis, dengue, typhus and plague. Additionally these insects cause major economic losses in agriculture by direct damage to livestock. This new edition of The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects has been fully updated since it was first published in 1991. It provides a unique, topic-led commentary on the biological aspects that are common to blood-sucking insects. This account focuses on the biological adaptations that clearly suit the blood-sucking habit and further discusses host-insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. It also outlines the medical, social and economic impact of blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful quick-reference section. Written in a clear, concise fashion and well illustrated throughout, the text will be of direct interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical and veterinary entomology and parasitology.
'In this well-written book, Lehane provides a masterly and well-referenced summary of key aspects of the biology of blood-sucking habit ... This is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this important subject and deserves to be widely used.' Biologist
Table of Contents:
1. The importance of blood-sucking insects; 2. The evolution of the blood-sucking habit; 3. Feeding preferences of blood-sucking insects; 4. Location of the host; 5. Ingestion of the blood meal; 6. Managing the blood meal; 7. Host-insect interactions; 8. Transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects; 9. The blood-sucking insect groups.
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