Life Sciences & Biotechnology
Title : | Molecular Charaterization of Microbial Endosymbionts in Stomoxys Calcitrans and Its Imlications on Population Structure and Management of Stable Fly |
Area of research : | Life Sciences & Biotechnology |
Principal Investigator : | Dr. NM Guruprasad, REVA University, Karnataka |
Timeline Start Year : | 2022 |
Timeline End Year : | 2025 |
Contact info : | guruprasad.nm@reva.edu.in |
Details
Executive Summary : | Arthropod vector borne diseases highly contagious and cause virulence and mortality in humans and animals. Arthropod borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile virus, Lumpy skin disease, Japanese encephalitis and lymphatic filariasis origin, an massive fitness encumbrance to humans and animals present in tropical and subtropical provinces of the biosphere. The usage of insecticides to aim arthropods as a means of illness control can be effective, but its frequently using is exorbitantly expensive, unsustainable and ecologically undesirable. The choices to control them are inadequate. The probable application of the microbial endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia, Cardenium, Spiroplasma etc., to control the vector borne illnesses has developed as a new addition to the arsenal of weapons against vectors and pests. It has the advantage of being additional ecologically benign than insecticide based methods and potentially more cost effective. Fruit fly Wolbachia strains can attack and withstand themselves in mosquito populations, decrease adult lifespan, touch mosquito reproduction and inhibit with pathogen replication. The proposed study highlights use of wMelPop strains (which has been well documented and studied) that will be characterized for future evaluation for efficacy in bio-control programs. The livestock parasites are injurious to animal husbandry throughout the globe, impacting the livestock and its product production. Many hematophagous flies from Muscidae family acts as vector for many diseases in cattle’s. The stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans a serous hematophagous pest menace, which carry virus Lumpy Skin Diseases in cattle causing enormous health burden causing weight loss, milk yield loss and at Sevier case mortality of cattle bringing heavy loss to farming community. |
Total Budget (INR): | 18,30,000 |
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