Edited by Kostas Bourtzis and Zhijian Jake Tu
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):653
Volume 11 Supplement 2
Publication of this supplement was funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The peer review process for articles published in this supplement was overseen by the Supplement Editors in accordance with BMC's peer review guidelines for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they were not involved in the peer review of any article that they co-authored. They declare no other competing interests.
Edited by Kostas Bourtzis and Zhijian Jake Tu
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):653
Malaria is a serious global health burden, affecting more than 200 million people each year in over 90 countries, predominantly in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Since the year 2000, a concerted effort to comb...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):660
The transinfection of the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia provides a method to produce functionally sterile males to be used to suppress mosquito vectors. ARwP is a wPip Wolbachia infected Aedes albopictus whic...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):649
Vector control programs based on population reduction by matings with mass-released sterile insects require the release of only male mosquitoes, as the release of females, even if sterile, would increase the n...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):645
Aedes aegypti is an important mosquito vector that transmits arboviruses that cause devastating diseases including Zika, dengue fever, yellow fever and chikungunya. Improved understanding of gene regulation in th...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):655
Mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, are controlled primarily by suppressing mosquito vector populations using insecticides. The current control programmes are seriously threatened by the emergence and ra...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):648
Aedes albopictus is an invasive mosquito species of global medical concern as its distribution has recently expanded to Africa, the Americas and Europe. In the absence of prophylaxis protecting human populations ...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):658
We explored the possibility to improve male/female separation (sexing) in Aedes albopictus by selection of two strains, one toward increasing sex dimorphism and another toward increasing protandry. In the laborat...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):650
The sterile insect technique (SIT), which is based on irradiation-induced sterility, and incompatible insect technique (IIT), which is based on Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (a kind of male steril...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):657
Global concern over the rapid expansion of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, and its vector competence has highlighted an urgent need to improve currently available population control methods, like the ...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):647
Malaria is still a global health problem and vector control is the cornerstone of disease control strategies using indoor residual insecticide spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated nets. The situation is becomin...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):659
The global economic cost of Aedes-borne diseases, such as dengue, is estimated to be in the billions of dollars annually. In this scenario, a sustained vector control strategy is the only alternative to control d...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):644
Malaria parasites, transmitted by the bite of an anopheline mosquito, pose an immense public health burden on many tropical and subtropical regions. The most important malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa are...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):651
The feasibility of the sterile insect technique (SIT) as a malaria vector control strategy against Anopheles arabiensis has been under investigation over the past decade. One of the critical steps required for th...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):646
The Asian malaria mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, is a major urban malaria vector in the Middle East and on the Indian subcontinent. Early zygotic transcription, which marks the maternal-to-zygotic transition, has...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):652
Several mosquito population suppression strategies based on the rearing and release of sterile males have provided promising results. However, the lack of an efficient male selection method has hampered the ex...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):656
Major efforts are currently underway to develop novel, complementary methods to combat mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquito genetic control strategies (GCSs) have become an increasingly important area of research...
Citation: Parasites & Vectors 2018 11(Suppl 2):654
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