Synopses & Reviews
This book is a detailed account of the embryology, growth and metamorphosis of mosquitoes, the nutrition of larvae and adults, and egg production by the adult females. Physiological adaptations of larvae to their aquatic environment are also described. Written in a manner to be comprehensible to any informed biologist, the book has received glowing reviews.
Review
"There can be few mosquito biologists who would not learn much by reading this book..... Professor Clements is to be congratulated on his achievement in making such a vast body of knowledge so readily available." -- Entomological Research
"This volume will long serve as a guide for everyone dealing with mosquitos and other Diptera of medical and veterinary importance."--Science
"...surpassingly accurate and eminently readable..... deserves a prominent place on the reading lists of introductory as well as advanced courses dealing with vector biology." -- Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Synopsis
Volume 1: Development, Nutrition and Reproduction reviews the embryology, growth and metamorphosis of mosquitoes, the nutrition of larvae and adults, and egg production by the adults females. Physiological adaptations of larvae to their aquatic environment are also described. Volume 1 was published by Chapman and Hall in 1992.
Synopsis
Volume 1: Development, Nutrition and Reproduction reviews the embryology, growth and metamorphosis of mosquitoes, the nutrition of larvae and adults, and egg production by the adults females. Physiological adaptations of larvae to their aquatic environment are also described. Volume 1 was published by Chapman and Hall in 1992.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction. Mosquitoes: life cycle, biology, disease transmission
1. Aspects of genetics
2. Embryology
3. The egg shell
4. Larval feeding
5. Larval nutrition, excretion and respiration
6. Osmotic and ionic regulation
7. Growth and development
8. Metamorphosis
9. The circulatory system
10. The endocrine system and hormones
11. Adult food and feeding mechanisms
12. The adult salivary glands and their secretions
13. Structure of the adult alimentary canal
14. Adult digestion
15. Adult energy metabolism
16. Adult diuresis, excretion and defaecation
17. Structure of the gonads and gonoducts
18. Spermatogenesis and the structure of spermatozoa
19. Oogenesis
20. Vitellogenesis
21. Hormonal regulation of ovarian development in anautogenous mosquitoes
22. Nutrition and fertility of anautogenous mosquitoes
23. Autogeny
References
Species index
Subject index