1st Edition
Mosquitoes of India Biology, Phylotaxonomy, Host-Parasite Interaction and Resistance Development
Preface
Foreword
Dedication
Acknowledgement
SECTION - I: ORIGIN, EVOLUTION, AND DISTRIBUTION
Chapter 1. History of Mosquito Research
(B.K. Tyagi, Indra Vythilingam)
Chapter 2. Phylogeny, Evolution and Classification
(B.K. Tyagi)
Chapter 3. Mosquito Biogeography
(B.K. Tyagi, Anil Prakash, Ramesh C. Dhiman, Vas Dev)
SECTION – II: TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY
Chapter 4. Mosquito Inventory of Extant Taxa, National Repositories, and Identification Keys for
Dominant Vector Species
(B.K. Tyagi, Kailash Chandra, Devinder Singh)
Chapter 5. Mosquito Biodiversity
(B.K. Tyagi, Jagbir Singh Kirti, Ritwik Mondal, S.A. Khan, Vikas
Kumar, P.K. Sumodan, Sajal Bhattacharya)
Chapter 6. Mosquitoes as Vectors, Pests and Allergy Causers
(B.K. Tyagi, Manas Sarkar, C. Kandasamy, Sajal Bhattacharya)
SECTION – III: SAMPLING METHODS
Chapter 7. Mosquito Sampling: Theory and Practice in India
(Rina Tilak, Vivek Anand, M. Govindraju, B.K. Tyagi)
SECTION – IV: BIOLOGY
Chapter 8. Biology of Mosquitoes
(B. Reddya Naik, Diwakar Singh Dinesh, S. Sambashiva Daravath,
B.K. Tyagi)
SECTION – V: ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
Chapter 9. Ecology and Behaviour
(Ritwik Mondal, Syed Afrin Azmi, Shakya Sinha, Chandrima Bose, Tanuka Ghosh, Sajal Bhattacharya, and B.K. Tyagi)
SECTION – VI: MOSQUITO GENOMES, GENOMICS AND PROTEOPMICS
Chapter 10. Mosquito Genomes
(B.K. Tyagi, Varun Tyagi, Vas Dev)
Chapter 11. Indian Malarial Vectors: Tissue-Specific Molecular Complexity and Integrative Biology
(Tanvi Singh, Seena Kumari, Vaishali Saini, Pooja Rohilla, Sanjay Tavetiya, Sanjeev Kumar, and Rajnikant Dixit)
Chapter 12. Functional Gnomics: Indian Malarial Vectors
(Tanvi Singh, Seena Kumari, Nirmala Sankhala, Pooja Yadav,
Sanjay Tavetiya, Lalita Gupta, Rajnikant Dixit)
Chapter 13. Oleuropein-Induced Autophagy: A Plausible Mechanism for Anti-
Malarial Drug Resistance
(Nikunj Tandel, Neil Roy Chaudhary, Tejaswini Vaidya, Mihir
Makwana, Rajeev K. Tyagi)
SECTION – VII: VECTOR DYNAMICS UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
Chapter 14. Vector Dynamics Under the Impact of Climate Change
(Ramesh C. Dhiman, Poonam Singh, S.S. Areeb Hussain, B.K. Tyagi)
SECTION – VIII: RESISTANCE DEVELOPMENT IN VECTORS
Chapter 15. Insecticide Resistance
(Dhiraj Saha, Minu Bharati, Priyanka Rai, Abhisekh Subba, Manas
Pratim Modak, Abhirup Saha, Subhajit Das, E. Pushpalatha, Indra
Vythilingam, Nazni bt. Hj. Wasi Ahmad, R.S. Sharma and B.K.
Tyagi)
Chapter 16. Target Site Mediated Insecticide Resistance in Major Mosquito
Vectors
(Dhiraj Saha, Manas Pratim Modak, Subhajit Das, Abhirup
Saha, Nilu Limboo, Prerana Bhujel, Prapti Das, Priyanka Rai,
Debayan Raha, H.L. Hoti, Vasuki Venkatesan and B. K. Tyagi
Chapter 17. Effect of Insecticide Resistance on Biology and Reproductive
Fitness of Mosquito Vectors
(Dhiraj Saha, Nilu Limboo, Prerana Bhujel, Prapti Das, Minu
Bharti, Abhisekh Subba, Debayan Raha and B.K. Tyagi)
Index
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Biography
Dr Brij Kishore Tyagi currently serves as the Professor of Practice, Department of Biosciences, University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali (Punjab), India as well as the Advisor, Vellore Institute Technology, India, and the Consultant, Reckitt Benckiser, Gurugram (Haryana), India. He completed his MSc (Zoology) in 1974 and Ph.D. (Entomology/Zoology) in 1978. He joined the Malaria Research Centre (now National Institute of Malaria Research) in 1981 on a WHO-TDR research project on tribal malaria in south Gujarat, and subsequently the ICMR mainstream as Senior Research Officer at Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry in 1984, and as Assistant Director and later Deputy Director at Desert Medicine Research Centre, Jodhpur in 1988. He finally joined as a Scientist ‘F’ (Joint Director) (2000) and subsequently Scientist ‘G’ (Director) & Director-in-Charge (2005/07) at the Centre for Research in Medical Entomology, Madurai (Tamil Nadu State) through 35 years' long and highly distinguished career in diverse medico-entomological research, particularly the various vector-borne diseases (VBDs), in most of States and UTs in the country. He emerited from the ICMR Service in 2013, and was rewarded in continuity with two years; extension to 2015 with all administrative powers. Post-emeritation, he was appointed first as the Visiting Fellow followed by Visiting Professor at Bharathidasan Univ., Trichy (TN) (2015–2016) and subsequently as Visiting Professor at Punjabi Univ., Patiala (Punjab) (2017-2019). He has authored more than 700 scientific titles, 43 books, including a Training Manual, Biosafety for Human Health and the Environment in the Context of the Potential Use of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes (GMMs): A Tool for Biosafety Training based on courses in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2008–2011, published by the World Health Organization (2015).
