The biology of blood sucking in insects 2nd Edition by Lehane ISBN 9780521836081 0521836085

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ISBN 10:   0521836085 

ISBN 13: 9780521836081

Author:  Lehane M.J.

The second edition of ‘The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects’ by M.J. Lehane provides an in-depth exploration of blood-sucking insects, focusing on their biological adaptations, evolution, and the diseases they transmit. It highlights the significant medical, social, and economic impacts of these insects, as well as their interactions with hosts and parasites. This updated edition is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in medical and veterinary parasitology and entomology.

Table of contents: 

1 The importance of blood-sucking insects

2 The evolution of the blood-sucking habit

2.1 Prolonged close association with vertebrates

2.2 Morphological pre-adaptation for piercing

3 Feeding preferences of blood-sucking insects

3.1 Host choice

3.2 Host choice and species complexes

4 Location of the host

4.1 A behavioural framework for host location

4.2 Appetitive searching

4.3 Activation and orientation

4.4 Attraction

4.5 Movement between hosts

5 Ingestion of the blood meal

5.1 Probing stimulants

5.2 Mouthparts

5.3 Vertebrate haemostasis

5.4 Host pain

5.5 Insect anti-haemostatic and anti-pain factors in saliva

5.6 Phagostimulants

5.7 Blood intake

6 Managing the blood meal

6.1 Midgut anatomy

6.2 The blood meal

6.3 Gonotrophic concordance

6.4 Nutrition

6.5 Host hormones in the blood meal

6.6 Partitioning of resources from the blood meal

6.7 Autogeny

7 Host-insect interactions

7.1 Insect distribution on the surface of the host

7.2 Morphological specializations for life on the host

7.3 Host immune responses and insect salivary secretions

7.4 Behavioural defences of the host

7.5 Density-dependent effects on feeding success

8 Transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects

8.1 Transmission routes

8.2 Specificity in vector-parasite relationships

8.3 Origin of vector-parasite relationships

8.4 Parasite strategies for contacting a vector

8.5 Parasite strategies for contacting a vertebrate host

8.6 Vector pathology caused by parasites

8.7 Vector immune mechanisms

9 The blood-sucking insect groups

9.1 Insect classification

9.2 Phthiraptera

9.3 Hemiptera

9.4 Siphonaptera

9.5 Diptera

9.6 Other groups

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