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Title

The molecular biology of insect disease vectors : a methods manual / edited by J.M. Crampton, C.B. Beard, and C. Louis.

Publication

London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beard, C. B. (Charles Benjamin), 1957-
• Crampton, Julian M.
• Louis, C. (Christos)

Description

xxv, 578 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Animals, Laboratory
• Genetic Techniques > veterinary
• Insect Vectors > genetics
• Insect Vectors > parasitology
• Insecta
• Insects > Molecular aspects
• Insects as carriers of disease
• Tissue Culture Techniques > veterinary
• Vector control

Genre/Form

Laboratory Manual.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Care and maintenance of anopheline mosquito colonies / Mark Q. Benedict -- 2. Care and maintenance of Aedes mosquito colonies / Leonard E. Munstermann -- 3. Care and maintenance of phlebotomine sandfly colonies / Govind B. Modi -- 4. Care and maintenance of blackfly colonies / Eddie W. Cupp and Frank B. Ramberg -- 5. Care and maintenance of tsetse colonies / Ronald H. Gooding, Udo Feldmann and Alan S. Robinson -- 6. Care and maintenance of triatomine colonies / Patricia de Azambuja and Eloi S. Garcia -- 7. Infection of mosquitoes with rodent malaria / Robert E. Sinden -- 8. Infection of mosquitoes with primate malaria / William E. Collins -- 9. Infection of mosquitoes with filaria / Harold Townson -- 10. Infection of phlebotomine sandflies with Leishmania / Paul A. Bates -- 11. Infection of blackflies with Onchocerca / Albert E. Bianco and Peter J. Ham -- 12. Infection of tsetse with Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense / Ian Maudlin --
• 13. Infection of triatomines with Trypanosoma cruzi / Eloi S. Garcia and Patricia de Azambuja -- 14. Isolation of genomic DNA / Christos Louis -- 15. Isolation and analysis of RNA from insect vectors / Margaret A. Hughes -- 16. Determination of insect genome size and complexity by reassociation kinetics / Melanie J. Palmer and William C. Black IV -- 17. Constructing and screening lambda libraries / Margaret A. Hughes -- 18. Constructing and screening cosmid libraries / Kostas D. Mathiopoulos -- 19. Constructing and screening cDNA libraries / Kostas D. Mathiopoulos -- 20. Southern/northern blotting and hybridization techniques / Inga Siden-Kiamos -- 21. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and RT-PCR / Bruno Arca and Charalambos Savakis -- 22. Differential display of mRNA / George Dimopoulos and Christos Louis -- 23. Localization of RNA transcripts by in situ hybridization / Philip W. Ingham and Trevor Jowett --
• 24. In situ localization of proteins in whole mounted tissue / Marcos A. Gonzales-Gaitan and Herbert Jackle -- 25. DNA sequencing and primer extension mapping / Hans-Michael Muller -- 26. RFLP analysis of insect genomes / David W. Severson -- 27. Microsatellite mapping of insect genomes / Liangbiao Zheng -- 28. Polytene chromosome preparation from anopheline mosquitoes / Alessandra della Torre -- 29. In situ hybridization to Anopheles polytene chromosomes / Vasantha Kumar, Anthony J. Cornel and Odette Mukabayire -- 30. Microdissection and microamplification of dipteran polytene chromosomes / Robert D. C. Saunders -- 31. RAPD-PCR and SSCP analysis for insect population genetic studies / William C. Black IV and Nancy M. DuTeau -- 32. PCR amplification of insect ribosomal DNA / Susan M. Paskewitz and Frank H. Collins -- 33. Generation and use of species-specific DNA probes for insect vector identification / Julian M. Crampton and Susannah M. Hill --
• 34. Cloning and detection of insecticide resistance genes / Nicole Pasteur, Michel Raymond and Francois Rousset [et al.] -- 35. Microinjection of mosquito embryos / Alison C. Morris -- 36. Transfection of cultured mosquito cells / Ann Marie Fallon -- 37. Viral transducing vectors for mosquitoes / Jon O. Carlson, Boris N. Afanasiev and Stephen Higgs [et al.] -- 38. Viral expression systems and viral infections in insects / Stephen Higgs, Ken E. Olson and Kurt I. Kamrud [et al.] -- 39. Establishing primary cell cultures from disease vectors nd maintenance of continuous cell lines / Colin J. Leake -- 40. Culture and analysis of insect salivary glands / Alison C. Morris and Anthony A. James -- 41. Culture and analysis of the insect fat body / Alexander S. Raikhel, Kirk W. Deitsch and Thomas W. Sappington -- 42. Culture and analysis of insect ovaries / Thomas W. Sappington, Mark R. Brown and Alexander S. Raikhel --
• 43. Culture and analysis of insect midgut / Hans-Michael Muller and Andrea Crisanti -- 44. Isolation and culture of tsetse secondary endosymbionts / Susan C. Welburn and Colin Dale -- 45. Genetic manipulation of insect symbionts / C. Ben Beard and Serap Aksoy -- 46. PCR-based detection and identification of insect symbionts / Scott L. O'Neill.

ISBN

0412736608 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96070874

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries