Transgenesis and the management of vector-borne disease /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2008]
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| Series: | Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;
v. 627. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.].