Rearing Animal and Plant Pathogen Vectors

This book provides an integrated description of methods used to rear vectors of human, higher animal, and plant pathogens in the laboratory. It deals with diverse subject areas, and contains descriptions of standard, as well as highly specialized, methods used by medical, veterinary, entomology, and...

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Main Authors Maramorosch, Karl, Mahmood, Farida
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton CRC Press 2014
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Animals as carriers of disease
Animals as carriers of disease > Research > Methodology
Insects as carriers of disease
Insects as carriers of disease > Research > Methodology
Methodology
Plaster Of Paris
Larval Rearing
colony
instar
lter
GFLV
parafi
Blood Feed
Common Bed Bug
Insect Cage
Artifi Cial Diets
Resting Spores
paper
plants
feeding
Photo Period
host
Dorsal Gland
CDC Light Trap
Fi Eld Collected
Fusca Group
Instar Nymphs
Key Words
Leafhopper Vectors
Photoperiod
Whitefl Ies
Callistephus Chinensis
blood
Xiphinema Index
Caged Plants
Rearing Containers
Blood Feeding
Host Plants
maintenance
Leaf Curl Virus
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Laboratory Maintenance of Mosquitoes -- 2. Black Fly Rearing and Use in Laboratory Bioassays -- 3. Maintenance of Ticks in the Laboratory -- 4. Maintenance of the Triatomine Bugs Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata under Laboratory Conditions -- 5. Laboratory Rearing of Bed Bugs -- 6. Laboratory Maintenance of Phlebotomine Sand Flies -- 7. Establishment and Maintenance of Small Scale Tsetse Colonies -- 8. Rearing Aphids to use in Virus-Vectors Studies -- 9. Leafhopper and Planthopper Rearing -- 10. Maintenance of Piesma quadratum (Fieb.) -- 11. Rearing Thrips Vectors -- 12. Whiteflies as Subjects of Laboratory Research -- 13. Xiphinema index, Maintenance and Feeding in Monoxenic Cultures -- 14. Xiphinema index, Rearing in Greenhouse -- 15. Maintenance of Fungal Vectors of Plant Viruses -- 16. Sterile Techniques for Rearing and Cell Culture of Leafhopper Vectors of Plant Pathogens -- 17. Psyllid Vectors of Plant Pathogens: Collection, Rearing and Use in Laboratory Research Studies -- Chapter 7: Addendum: Acoustic Quality Control in Laboratory-Raised Tsetse Flies -- About the Editors