Sensory Ecology of Disease Vectors.

• Author: Ignell, R.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lazzari, C. R.; Lorenzo, M. G.
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (914 pages)

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...

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.