具體描述
Widespread and increasing resistance to most available acaracides threatens both global livestock industries and public health. This necessitates better understanding of ticks and the diseases they transmit in the development of new control strategies. Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control is written by an international collection of experts and covers in-depth information on aspects of the biology of the ticks themselves, various veterinary and medical tick-borne pathogens, and aspects of traditional and potential new control methods. A valuable resource for graduate students, academic researchers and professionals, the book covers the whole gamut of ticks and tick-borne diseases from microsatellites to satellite imagery and from exploiting tick saliva for therapeutic drugs to developing drugs to control tick populations. It encompasses the variety of interconnected fields impinging on the economically important and biologically fascinating phenomenon of ticks, the diseases they transmit and methods of their control.
作者簡介
Alan Bowman has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Oklahoma State and is now at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include tick physiology, bioactive factors in tick saliva, drug target development and ecological aspects of borreliosis. Funding for his tick research has come from national funding bodies and both large animal health and small biotechnology companies for which he also acts as a consultant.
Pat Nuttall is Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), the UK's centre of excellence for integrated research in land-based and freshwater environmental sciences, and part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She is Professor of Virology of the University of Oxford and a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded the Ivanovsky Medal for Virology in 1996 by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 2000 for services to environmental sciences.
目錄資訊
1. Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names S. C. Barker and A. Murrel
2. The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics S. E. Randolph
3. Tick salivary glands: the physiology of tick water-balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission A. S. Bowman, A. Ball and J. R. Sauer
4. Tick saliva: from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics J. M. Anderson and J. G. Valenzuela
5. Tick toxins: perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks B. J. Mans, R. Gothe and A. W. H. Neitz
6. Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins L. Grubhoffer, R. O. M. Rego, O. Hajdusek, V. Hypsa, V. Kova , N. Rudenko and J. H. Oliver, Jr
7. Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction H. H. Rees
8. Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders and insects: a comparative study W. R. Kaufman
9. Tick immunobiology M. Brossard and S. K. Wikel
10. Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens P. A. Nuttall and M. Labuda
11. Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America J. Piesman and L. Gern
12. Viruses transmitted by ticks M. Labuda and P. A. Nuttall
13. Babesiosis of cattle R. Bock, L. Jackson, B. De Vos and W. Jorgensen
14. Theileria: life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector R. Bishop, A. Musoke, R. Skilton, S. Morzaria, M. Gardner and V. Nene
15. Characterization of the tick-pathogen-host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia Anaplasma marginale K. M. Kocan, J. De La Fuente and E. F. Blouin
16. Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections S. R. Telford III and H. K. Goethert
17. Analyzing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS M. Daniel, J. Kolar and P. Zeman
18. Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide-resistance J. E. George, J. M. Pound and R. B. Davey
19. Anti-tick vaccines P. Willadsen
20. Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives M. Samish, H. Ginsberg and I. Glazer
21. Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control D.E. Sonnenshine
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這本《Ticks》的封麵設計著實吸引眼球，那種深沉的靛藍色背景上跳躍著的熒光綠綫條，讓人聯想到某種古老的、尚未被完全理解的自然法則。我是在一個微涼的鞦日午後，從一傢被遺忘在城市角落的二手書店裏把它淘齣來的。書頁泛著歲月的微黃，帶著一股混閤瞭灰塵和陳舊紙張特有的氣味，仿佛每一次翻動都在提醒著我，我正在接觸一個被時間封存的秘密。這本書的開篇並不像我預期的那樣直奔主題，反而是用瞭一種近乎詩意的、緩慢的筆觸，勾勒齣一種關於時間流逝和生命細微之處的哲學沉思。作者似乎對那些被我們日常忽略的微小存在抱有異乎尋常的敬意。他筆下的每一個場景，無論是清晨草葉上凝結的露珠，還是牆角苔蘚的悄然蔓延，都被賦予瞭一種近乎神聖的意義。我感覺自己不是在閱讀一個故事，而是在跟隨一位隱士，在絕對的寂靜中，重新校準自己對“存在”的感知。這種敘事方式的剋製與深沉，讓我不得不放慢呼吸，細細品味每一個詞語背後的重量，體會那種既疏離又親密的觀察視角。它讓我開始反思，我們匆忙的人生中，究竟錯過瞭多少值得駐足凝視的瞬間。
评分我得承認，這本書的閱讀體驗是極具挑戰性的，尤其對於習慣瞭快節奏敘事的現代讀者來說。它更像是一部精心編排的交響樂，而非一首朗朗上口的流行歌麯。它的結構是碎片化的，主題之間的過渡常常是跳躍的，需要讀者付齣極大的主動性和想象力去構建內在的聯係。我花瞭將近一周的時間纔真正“進入”作者構建的那個世界，那感覺就像是潛入深海，需要時間適應水壓和光綫的變化。書中充斥著大量的隱喻和大量的科學術語，但它們的使用並非炫技，而是服務於一種更宏大的意圖——試圖去描摹那些超越語言錶達範圍的現象。有那麼幾個章節，描述瞭一種昆蟲群體行為的復雜性，那種精確到近乎冷酷的描述，卻奇妙地激發瞭我內心深處對秩序與混亂辯證關係的思考。我不得不時常停下來，查閱一些生物學或數學上的概念，以確保自己沒有漏掉作者拋齣的任何一個精巧的鈎子。這本書對耐心的考驗是巨大的，但一旦你跨過瞭那道門檻，它所展現齣的知識的深度和廣度，絕對會讓你感到震撼。這不是一本讓人輕鬆讀完的書，而是一本需要你與之“共振”的作品。
评分最讓我感到驚喜的是作者對於“聲音”的描繪，這在文字作品中是極其難以捕捉的維度。他似乎擁有某種天賦，能將那些極其微弱、幾乎無法察覺的聲響，以一種立體、可觸碰的方式呈現齣來。例如，他對某種甲蟲翅膀摩擦發齣的那種極高頻率的嗡鳴，描述得如此細緻入微，我甚至能想象齣那種聲音在空氣中震顫的波紋。這種對感官細節的極緻捕捉，讓整本書的氛圍變得異常緊張和真實。讀到某些關於夜間活動的段落時，我甚至會不自覺地屏住呼吸，竪起耳朵，試圖捕捉到書頁之外的任何動靜。這種沉浸式的體驗，讓我感覺自己不再是旁觀者，而是被吸入瞭那個由微小生命主宰的微觀宇宙之中。這種“在場感”的營造，絕非簡單的環境渲染，它根植於作者對自然界運作原理的深刻理解之上，將那些看似無關緊要的背景噪音，提升到瞭敘事的核心地位。可以說，這本書在聽覺層麵的構建，達到瞭令人稱奇的高度。
评分我發現這本書在探討“連接性”方麵，展現齣一種極其反傳統的視角。我們通常習慣於用宏大敘事來理解世界，比如文明的興衰、曆史的進程，但作者卻將目光投嚮瞭那些由無數微小互動所構成的、幾乎不可見的網絡。他反復強調，每一個看似獨立的事件或生命體，其實都嵌入在一個巨大的、充滿反饋迴路的係統中。書中有大量的篇幅似乎在探討“湧現性”的概念，即個體簡單的規則如何導緻瞭整體復雜而有序的宏觀行為。這使得閱讀過程本身也變成瞭一種對這種連接性的體驗——你必須不斷地在局部與整體之間切換視角，纔能理解作者的意圖。這種對係統思維的偏愛，使得文本的邏輯鏈條顯得既嚴密又極具彈性。它挑戰瞭我們綫性思考的習慣，迫使我們將目光從“點”轉移到“綫”和“麵”的交織上，去欣賞那種看不見的、卻又無處不在的關聯之美。
评分總而言之，這本書提供瞭一種近乎冥想式的閱讀體驗，它不提供廉價的答案，而是提齣更深刻、更具挑戰性的問題。它像一麵鏡子，映照齣我們自身作為生命體在浩瀚宇宙中所處的位置——既渺小又不可或缺。我個人認為，這本書的價值不在於它講述瞭什麼具體的故事，而在於它改變瞭我的觀看方式。我從閱讀中獲得瞭一種更謙遜的態度，去麵對這個充滿細節和未解之謎的世界。閤上書頁時，我做的第一件事，是走到窗邊，仔細地觀察那棵老榆樹上，正在忙碌搬傢的幾隻螞蟻。它們不再隻是背景中的小黑點，而是一個完整、自洽、充滿活力的社會結構。這本書成功地將我從人類中心主義的桎梏中解放齣來，用一種近乎科學的精確性，包裹瞭一層深厚的文學美感。這是一次值得所有願意放慢腳步的人去嘗試的心靈旅程。
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