Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors.
How do arthropods that transmit human pathogens perceive their world? The answer is essential for controlling the spread of vector-borne diseases in a rational way, and can help solve a major problem in current times. This state-of-the-art compendium, written for students and researchers in the Life...
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Wageningen :
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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Table of content
- Chapter 1 - Resource location in a complex sensory landscape
- Abstract
- 1.1 Our association with blood-feeding arthropods
- 1.2 Control
- 1.3 The nature of the resources
- 1.4 Landscape
- 1.5 The search
- 1.6 The array of the senses
- 1.7 The way forward
- References
- Chapter 2 - Comparative morphology of the peripheral olfactory system of disease vector arthropods
- Abstract
- 2.1 General morphology of the olfactory system of disease vector arthropods
- 2.2 Comparative morphology of the peripheral olfactory system
- 2.3 Functional and evolutionary aspects of olfactory sensilla
- 2.4 Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 3 - The molecular and neural determinants of olfactory behaviour in mosquitoes
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The mosquito olfactory system
- 3.3 Olfactory detection in the maxillary palps
- 3.4 Olfactory detection in the antennae
- 3.5 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 4 - Chemosensory system of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae)
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Tsetse olfactory sensilla and sensillum types
- 4.3 Role of olfaction in tsetse reproduction
- 4.4 Identification and characterisation of tsetse chemosensory-related proteins
- 4.5 Perspectives and conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5 - The olfactory system of human lice
- Abstract
- 5.1 Biology of human lice
- 5.2 Organisation of the olfactory system
- 5.3 Response to host cues
- 5.4 Response to intraspecific cues
- 5.5 Response to repellent compounds
- 5.6 Molecular aspects of odorant reception
- 5.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6 - Molecular basis of olfaction in kissing bugs
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Molecular olfactory machinery in triatomines
- 6.3 Expression and functional studies on olfactory-related genes in triatomines.
- 6.4 Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 7 - Behavioural ecology of plant-mosquito relations
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Role of plants in adult mosquito behaviour: a summary
- 7.3 Unsettled behavioural questions
- References
- Chapter 8 - Chemical ecology of sand fly plant-feeding behaviour
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Plant sources exploited by sand flies
- 8.3 Nutrient reward and impact of host-plant feeding on sand flies
- 8.4 Sand fly behaviour and selection of suitable host plants
- 8.5 Perspectives on plant-host feeding to sand fly surveillance and disease control
- 8.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9 - Odour-mediated host selection and discrimination in mosquitoes
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Methods to assess mosquito host choice and preference
- 9.3 Mosquito olfaction, host odorants and blends
- 9.4 Genes, receptors and neurons underlying host preference
- 9.5 Evolution of host specialisation in mosquitoes
- 9.6 Conclusion and future perspectives
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 10 - Olfactory-driven behaviours in kissing bugs
- Abstract
- 10.1 General features of kissing-bug behaviour: stealing blood is a dangerous task
- 10.2 Kissing-bug activity profiles and behavioural features: scarce data beside model species
- 10.3 The hemimetabolous way of life: being a blood sucker since egg hatching
- 10.4 Being silent while reaching a blood donor: risks and strategy
- 10.5 Aggregations inside shelters: chemical mechanisms cannot be generalised
- 10.6 Danger in the colony: alarm pheromones and lack of evidence for a defensive role
- 10.7 Sex living in small colonies
- 10.8 Pending questions and future directions
- References
- Chapter 11 - Host-seeking behaviour and its application for surveillance and control of sand flies
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction.
- 11.2 Intrinsic biological factors controlling sand fly host-seeking behaviour
- 11.3 Chemical cues for host location
- 11.4 Physical cues for host location
- 11.5 Sand fly biting and blood-feeding behaviour
- 11.6 Sand fly host preferences
- 11.7 Interaction of host-seeking and mating behaviours in sand flies
- 11.8 Role of kairomones of Leishmania-infected hosts
- 11.9 Proposed model for sand fly host seeking
- 11.10 Implications for the epidemiology and control of leishmaniasis
- 11.11 Utilisation of host attractants for surveillance and control of sand flies
- 11.12 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 12 - Effects of pathogens on mosquito host-seeking and feeding behaviour
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Pathogen lifecycle and transmission
- 12.3 Direct effects of pathogen infection
- 12.4 Indirect effects of pathogen infection
- 12.5 Broader implications
- 12.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13 - Sand fly sex/aggregation pheromones
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Identification of sex/aggregation pheromones in sand flies
- 13.3 The potential of sex/aggregation pheromones for use in control and monitoring
- 13.4 Conclusions and future work
- References
- Chapter 14 - Odour-mediated oviposition-site selection by mosquitoes
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Cues regulating oviposition-site selection
- 14.3 Sensory and molecular correlates for oviposition-site selection
- 14.4 Vector control perspectives
- 14.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 15 - Tick pheromones
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Types of pheromones
- 15.3 Grouping pheromones
- 15.4 Physiological pheromones
- 15.5 Applied uses of tick pheromones
- 15.6 Surveillance and control
- 15.7 Future directions
- References
- Chapter 16 - Host-plant feeding in mosquitoes
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction.
- 16.2 The role of host-plant feeding in mosquitoes
- 16.3 Taste sensory apparatus involved in host-plant feeding
- 16.4 Control of host-plant feeding
- 16.5 Taste sensory responses to plant-derived fluids
- 16.6 Molecular basis of host-plant taste
- 16.7 Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 17 - Phagostimulants drive the acceptance of a blood meal in disease vectors
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 The behavioural events prior to blood feeding
- 17.3 The structure and role of labral sensilla in blood feeding
- 17.4 Taste modalities associated with haematophagy
- 17.5 Other factors affecting phagostimulation
- 17.6 Mechanism underlying the detection of phagostimulants
- 17.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 18 - Salt perception in disease vectors
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Salt concentration drives acceptance and rejection behaviours
- 18.3 Chemosensory organs involved in salt detection
- 18.4 Molecular mechanisms of salt sensing
- 18.5 Salt processing centres
- 18.6 Final remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 19 - Vision in mosquitoes
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 The mosquito eye: structure and function
- 19.3 Locating resources: visually-guided opto-motor anemotaxis
- 19.4 Sexual dimorphism in mosquito eyes
- 19.5 Swarming
- 19.6 Host-seeking
- 19.7 Oviposition
- References
- Chapter 20 - Olfactory and visual integration in oviposition site selection of sand flies
- Abstract
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Breeding sites of phlebotomine sand flies
- 20.3 Oviposition attraction and stimulation in of phlebotomine sand flies
- 20.4 Implications and applications
- 20.5 Knowledge gaps and directions for future research
- Supplementary material
- References
- Chapter 21 - Biting flies and zebra stripes
- Abstract
- 21.1 Reasons that zebras are striped.
- 21.2 How generalisable are the biting fly findings?
- 21.3 Underlying mechanisms by which stripes could exert effects on tabanids
- 21.4 Assumptions about biting flies being the evolutionary driver of striping
- 21.5 Future directions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 22 - Mosquito heat seeking
- Abstract
- 22.1 Heat-seeking: a key step in the process of blood feeding by female mosquitoes
- 22.2 The discovery of heat seeking and its links to thermosensation
- 22.3 The antenna as a site for the detection of host-associated thermal cues
- 22.4 Candidate molecular receptors important for heat seeking: clues from Drosophila
- 22.5 The conserved ionotropic receptor 21a mediates cooling detection in Drosophila
- 22.6 IR21a mediates cooling detection and heat seeking in Anopheles gambiae
- 22.7 Heat seeking involves species-, sex- and context-specific thermosensory processing
- 22.8 Identifying additional thermosensory pathways that operate to drive heat seeking
- 22.9 The multiple independent evolutionary origins of heat seeking in arthropods
- 22.10 Investigating the processing of thermosensory information in the mosquito brain
- 22.11 Future directions
- References
- Chapter 23 - The thermal sense of kissing bugs
- Abstract
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Heat exchange
- 23.3 Thermal reception
- 23.4 Thermal orientation
- 23.5 The evaluation of thermal sources
- 23.6 Bimodal convergence: heat and humidity
- 23.7 Thermal preference and behavioural thermoregulation
- 23.8 Heat as a Zeitgeber
- 23.9 Thermal sensitivity and food recognition
- 23.10 Conclusions and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 24 - Host detection by ticks
- Abstract
- 24.1 Introduction
- 24.2 Behaviour
- 24.3 Peripheral sense organs
- 24.4 Parasite-mediated host detection
- 24.5 Model of host detection
- 24.6 Future research directions.
- Acknowledgements.