Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names
- 2 The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics
- 3 Tick salivary glands: the physiology of tick water balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission
- 4 Tick saliva: from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics
- 5 Tick toxins: perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks
- 6 Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins
- 7 Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction
- 8 Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders and insects: a comparative study
- 9 Tick immunobiology
- 10 Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens
- 11 Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America
- 12 Viruses transmitted by ticks
- 13 Babesiosis of cattle
- 14 Theileria: life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector
- 15 Characterization of the tick–pathogen–host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia Anaplasma marginale
- 16 Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections
- 17 Analysing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS
- 18 Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide resistance
- 19 Anti-tick vaccines
- 20 Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives
- 21 Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names
- 2 The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics
- 3 Tick salivary glands: the physiology of tick water balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission
- 4 Tick saliva: from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics
- 5 Tick toxins: perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks
- 6 Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins
- 7 Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction
- 8 Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders and insects: a comparative study
- 9 Tick immunobiology
- 10 Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens
- 11 Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America
- 12 Viruses transmitted by ticks
- 13 Babesiosis of cattle
- 14 Theileria: life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector
- 15 Characterization of the tick–pathogen–host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia Anaplasma marginale
- 16 Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections
- 17 Analysing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS
- 18 Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide resistance
- 19 Anti-tick vaccines
- 20 Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives
- 21 Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control
- Index
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- TicksBiology, Disease and Control, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008