Bridging laboratory and field research for genetic control of disease vectors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Knols, B. G. J. (Editor), Louis, C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal genetics.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Life Sciences, general.

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...