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Bridging laboratory and field research for genetic control of disease vectors

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-3799-3

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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.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Vector control, Insects as carriers of disease, Biotechnology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, nvertebrates, Life sciences