Bridging Laboratory and Field Research for Genetic Control of Disease Vectors
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Beschreibung
Contemporary research on genetic control of disease-transmitting insects knows two kinds of scientists: those that work in the laboratory and those known as ‘field people’. Over the last decade, both groups seem to have developed differing research priorities, address fundamentally different aspects within the overall discipline of infectious-disease control, and worse, have developed a scientific ‘language’ that is no longer understood by the ‘other’ party. This gap widens every day, between the North and the South, between ecologists and molecular biologists, geneticists and behaviourists, etc. The need to develop a common research agenda that bridges this gap has been identified as a top priority by all parties involved. Only then shall the goal of developing appropriate genetic-control strategies for vectors of disease become reality.
This book is the reflection of a workshop, held in Nairobi (Kenya) in July 2004. It brought together a good representation of both molecular and ecological research and, for the first time, included a significant number of researchers from disease-endemic countries.
For the first time, includes a significant amount of research from disease-endemic countries Bridges the gap between laboratory and field research on genetic control of disease-transmitting insects
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B.G.J. Knols
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Radiologieinformationssystem behavior biology computerassistierte Detektion environment epidemiological evaluation evolution genes genetics genomics insects population Model invertebrates