Flies in Relation to Disease: Bloodsucking Flies

Flies in Relation to Disease

Smith, m.d. Cambridge Public Health Series: University Press, 1913. This is one of the earliest volumes of the new Public Health Series issued by the Cambridge University Press. If the otber volumes promised reach the high level of the present one the series will bo remarkable and successful. The present volume, by Dr. Graham Smith, the University Lecturer in Hygiene, and one of the general edi...

Flies and Disease

Chasing flies because time flies.

that the authors conclude that Drosophila can be used as an instrumental model to elucidate the role of immune response as regulators of neuroprotection. In addition to Drosophila , much has been learnt from studying the zebrafish (Danio rerio) , appearing as an early vertebrate during evolution. The zebrafish has become an important organism for exploring defense mechanisms in innate immune re...

Flies as models of disease

By all appearances flies and humans are quite different. Nevertheless, their genetics and underlying DNA sequences are remarkably similar. Many human disease genes have sequences common with those in Drosophila (Bier, 2005). This genetic similarity supports the notion that basic research in Drosophila will accelerate translational research for a wide range of diseases. Disease-orientated Drosop...

Fossil psychodoid flies and their relation to parasitic diseases.

Psychodid sand flies are blood-sucking fly vectors of several parasitic diseases. The oldest definitive record of this group is from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (circa-135 to -125 My), but the high diversity within this group supports the idea that the psychodoids originated much earlier in history. The palaeontology demonstrates that the Lower Creataceous representatives of the diffe...