The Biology of Mosquitoes (Volume 3): Transmission of Viruses and Interactions with Bacteria
An intended single volume to have been titled The Biology of Mosquitoes expanded into two volumes, published in 1992 and 1999, which broadly concerned mosquito physiology and mosquito behaviour, respectively. A chapter on the pathogens and parasites of mosquitoes inserted into the projected third...
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CABI
2014
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| 总结: | An intended single volume to have been titled The Biology of Mosquitoes expanded into two volumes,
published in 1992 and 1999, which broadly concerned mosquito physiology and mosquito behaviour,
respectively. A chapter on the pathogens and parasites of mosquitoes inserted into the projected third
volume expanded so greatly that it alone came to constitute this third volume, on the transmission of
viruses and interactions with bacteria, plus a fourth on the transmission of unicellular and multicellular
parasites, now partly written. The projected fifth volume is more distant.
An important development in this volume is adoption of the revised, phylogenetic classification of
mosquitoes of the tribe Aedini. Cladistic analysis of morphological data makes it possible to determine the
evolutionary relationships of organisms and to produce phylogenetic classifications. This scientific advance
has been adopted in recent decades by the taxonomists of most groups of living organisms, including
insects, but, curiously, not by most mosquito taxonomists. Over recent years a phylogenetic classification of
the culicid tribe Aedini was developed which regroups them into smaller genera with more distinct
geographical distributions and, in some cases, distinctive biology - developments that have been invaluable
in assembling and rationalizing a multitude of data for this review. This was most obvious in the division of
the traditional genus Aedes - which has well over 900 species - into its phylogenetically distinct lineages.
Because this advance in mosquito biology appears to be unknown to many, a description and justification
are provided in the Introduction which immediately follows this Preface. The changes to generic names
that resulted from the reclassification are detailed in Appendix 2. |
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