1st Edition

Rearing Animal and Plant Pathogen Vectors

Edited By Karl Maramorosch, Farida Mahmood Copyright 2014
    348 Pages 204 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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 plant pathology experts. The text brings together the standard breeding and manipulation methods developed in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It describes the cultivating, handling, sterile techniques, and cell culture as well as safety measures to prevent contamination and escape of insects, ticks, nematodes and fungal vectors.

    Preface

    Laboratory Maintenance of Mosquitoes; Farida Mahmood

    Black Fly Rearing and Use in Laboratory Bioassays; Elmer W. Gray and Ray Noblet

    Maintenance of Ticks in the Laboratory; Daniel E. Sonenshine

    Maintenance of the Triatomine Bugs Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata under Laboratory Conditions; R.V. Durvasula, J. Taneja, K. Cobb and E.M. Dotson

    Laboratory Rearing of Bed Bugs; Mark F. Feldlaufer, Harold J. Harlan and Dini M. Miller

    Laboratory Maintenance of Phlebotomine Sand Flies; Farida Mahmood and Michelle G. Colacicco-Mayhugh

    Establishment and Maintenance of Small Scale Tsetse Colonies; Serap Aksoy

    Rearing Aphids to use in Virus-Vectors Studies; Catherine Katsar and Stewart Gray

    Leafhopper and Planthopper Rearing; Karl Maramorosch

    Maintenance of Piesma quadratum (Fieb.); Gerhard Proeseler

    Rearing Thrips Vectors; D.V.R. Reddy, G. Kurub and V. Muniyappa

    Whitefl ies as Subjects of Laboratory Research; David N. Byrne

    Xiphinema index, Maintenance and Feeding in Monoxenic Cultures; Urs Wyss

    Xiphinema index, Rearing in Greenhouse; Ulrike Ipach

    Maintenance of Fungal Vectors of Plant Viruses; Chuji Hiruki

    Sterile Techniques for Rearing and Cell Culture of Leafhopper Vectors of Plant Pathogens; Jun Mitsuhashi

    Psyllid Vectors of Plant Pathogens: Collection, Rearing and Use in Laboratory Research Studies; Barbara Jarausch and Phyllis Weintraub

    Index

    Biography

    Karl Maramorosch, Farida Mahmood