Bridging Laboratory And Field Research For Genetic Control Of Disease Vectors (wageningen Ur Frontis Series)

ISBN 10: 1402037996 / ISBN 13: 9781402037993

Published by Springer, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bridging Laboratory And Field Research For Genetic Control Of Disease Vectors (wageningen Ur Frontis Series)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402037996
• ISBN 13: 9781402037993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.