Approaches to Diseases Control Centered on Arthropod Vectors of Animal and Human Pathogens
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 217
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Interests: plasmodium; avian malaria; phylogenetic diversity; vector borne disease; morphometry; mosquitoes; DNA barcoding
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Interests: wildlife diseases; wildlife conservation; haemosporidian parasites; vector-borne diseases; clinical pathology; parasite biology; host-parasite relationship
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vector-borne diseases pose a significant challenge in both tropical regions and temperate zones. Changes in the global climate and landscape may directly contribute to the expansion of territories and the occurrence of severe outbreaks of vector-borne diseases, including those neglected by research. Mosquitoes, sandflies, biting midges, ticks, lice, and fleas are among the primary vectors responsible for the spread of such diseases. Research on the biology and ecology of vector arthropods, pathogen detection, vector competence and capacity assessment, population control measures, surveillance strategies, and other related topics is crucial in the development of comprehensive and integrative control approaches. Encouraging studies in this field is essential.
Dr. Karin Kirchgatter
Dr. Carolina Romeiro Fernandes Chagas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- medical entomology
- arthropods
- mosquitos
- Diptera
- vector biology
- vector genetics
- bioinformatics
- computational biology
- parasitology
- arboviruses
- disease control
- disease surveillance
Related Special Issue
- Insect Vector-Focused Approaches for Disease Control in Insects (12 articles)
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Testing genetic elements for the construction of sexing strains in the yellow fever mosquito via the Tet-off binary expression system
Authors: Irina Häcker, Tanja Rehling, Marc F. Schetelig
Affiliation: Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Abstract: Several large scale field trials showed that the sterile insect technique (SIT) can be successfully applied to control the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. However, the area-wide application of the SIT is prevented by the lack of an efficient sexing or female removal system that would allow the sex separation or removal of female mosquitoes in the billion per week scale, a pre-requisite for the mass release of radiation-sterilised male mosquitoes. One way to create sexing strains (i.e. strains, in which the females can be specifically eliminated) in insects is the Tet-off binary expression system. The system can be switched off by supplying Tetracyclin to the insect food (restrictive conditions). In the absence of Tet the transgenes are expressed. This system can be used to female-specifically express lethal genes. In this study, we tested different driver and lethal effector components for their effectivity to kill the insects carrying the transgene constructs under permissive conditions, and the possibility to switch off their expression under restrictive (i.e. strain maintenance) conditions.
