Mosquitoes of India

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).

• Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgment. About the Editor. List of ContributorsChapter 1. History of Mosquito Research. Chapter 2. Phylogeny, Evolution and Classification. Chapter 3. Biogeography. Chapter 4. Mosquito Inventory of Extant Taxa, National Repositories, and Identification Keys for Dominant Vector Species. Chapter 5. Mosquito Biodiversity. Chapter 6. Mosquitoes as Vectors, Pests and Allergy Causers. Chapter 7. Mosquito Sampling: Theory and Practice in India. Chapter 8. Biology of Mosquitoes. Chapter 9. Ecology and Behaviour.Chapter 10. Mosquito Genomes. Chapter 11. Indian Malarial Vectors: Tissue-Specific Molecular Complexity and Integrative Biology. Chapter 12. Functional Gemomics Indian Malarial Vectors. Chapter 13. Oleuropein-Induced Autophagy: A Plausible Mechanism for Anti-Malarial Drug Resistance. Chapter 14. Vector Dynamics Under the Impact of Climate Change. Chapter 15. Insecticide Resistance. Chapter 16. Target Site Mediated Insecticide Resistance in Major Mosquito Vectors. Chapter 17. Effect of Insecticide Resistance on Biology and Reproductive Fitness of Mosquito Vectors. Index