Transgenesis and the management of vector-borne disease
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Serap Aksoy
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 171 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;
Volume Designation
v. 627
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
REPRODUCTION NOTE
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Also available in print
CONTENTS NOTE
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Perspectives on the state of insect transgenics / David A. O'Brochta and Alfred M. Handler -- Alphavirus transducing systems / Brian D. Foy and Ken E. Olson -- Paratransgenesis applied for control of tsetse transmitted sleeping sickness / Serap Aksoy, Brian Weiss, and Geoffrey Attardo -- Bacteria of the genus Asaia: a potential paratransgenic weapon against malaria / Guido Favia ... [et al.] -- Proposed uses of transposons in insect and medical biotechnology / Peter W. Atkinson -- The yin and yang of linkage disequilibrium: mapping of genes and nucleotides -- Conferring insecticide resistance in insect disease vectors / William C. Black IV ... [et al.] -- Impact of technological improvements on traditional control strategies / Mark Q. Benedict and Alan S. Robinson -- Insect population suppression using engineered insects / Luke Alphey ... [et al.] -- Wolbachia-based technologies for insect pest population control / Kostas Bourtzis -- Using predictive models to optimize wolbachia-based strategies for vector-borne disease control / Jason L. Rasgon -- Modifying insect population age structure to control vector-borne disease / Peter E. Cook, Conor J. McMeniman, and Scott L. O'Neill -- Technological advances to enhance agricultural pest management / Thomas A. Miller, Carol R. Lauzon, and David J. Lampe -- Applications of mosquito ecology for successful insect transgenesis-based disease prevention programs / Thomas W. Scott ... [et al.]