Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : putting the rational into biorational
  • Overcoming insecticide resistance : proactive detection and management of insecticide-resistant human lice
  • Current evidence, new insights, challenges and future outlooks to the use of spatial repellents for public health
  • The potential of green chemistry in vector control
  • Attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) : a novel vector management tool
  • Molecular and nano-scale approaches to biorational control of mosquito vectors
  • Getting them where they live : semiochemical-based strategies to address major gaps in vector control programs : Vectrax, SPLAT BAC, Trojan Cow, and SPLAT TK
  • G-protein-coupled receptors : their expression, function and regulation in insecticide resistance
  • Characterizing molecular targets and pest biology for the development of new technologies
  • Insecticidal activity and physiological actions of matrine, a plant natural product
  • Development and evaluation of push-pull control strategies against Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
  • Monoterpenoid isovalerate esters as long-lasting spatial mosquito repellents
  • Plant terpenoids modulate adrenergic type 1 octopamine receptor (PaOA1) isolated from the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
  • Potential for utilization of spatial repellents in mosquito control interventions
  • Determination and comparison of the cuticular thickness across several insecticide resistant and susceptible populations of the Common bed bug, Cimex lectularius L.