Volume 10 of Advances in Disease Vector Research consists of seven chapters on vectors that affect human or animal health and six chapters on plant pathogens and their vectors. In Chapter 1, Yasuo Chinzei and DeMar Taylor discuss hormonal regulation of vitellogenesis in ticks. Many blood sucking insects and ticks transmit pathogens by engorgement, which induces vitellogenesis and oviposition in adult animals. To investigate the pathogen transmission mechanism in vector animals, information on the host physiological and endocrinological conditions after engorgement is useful and important because pathogen development or proliferation occurs in the vector hosts at the same time as the host reproduction. Chinzei and Taylor have shown that in ticks, juvenile hormone (JH) is not involved in the endocrinological processes inducing vitellogenin biosynthesis. Synganglion (tick brain) factor(s) (vitellogenesis inducing factor, VIF) is more important to initiate vitellogenesis after engorgement, and ecdysteroids are also related to induction of vitellogenin synthesis. In their chapter, based mainly on their own experimental data, the authors discuss the characterization of main yolk protein, vitellogenin (Vg) , biosynthesis and processing in the fat body, and hormonal regulation of Vg synthesis in tick systems, including ixodid and argasid ticks.

Danloria is a forest located in the seven hills of Germania. Not everyone in Germania knows about the forest. Stan is a little boy who enjoyed visits to the forest with his father. One day, his dad fell sick, and Stan was led to the forest without his father by wise Fern. It was during this adventure that their friendship was sealed. During this forest visit, Stan was introduced to prominent residents of the forest and told of their benefits to human life. On one unfortunate occasion, Stan fell sick. The healing process introduced him to more friends of Fern from forests all over the world, such as Asilandia, Afrilandia, Califoria, and Englandia. These encounters with Fern's friends formed an everlasting memory on the little boy.

In this book are narrations and personal thoughts by Savanna, a woman who sees herself as a huntress for wisdom from the knowledge-filled expanses of her vast life in the worldly plains. These are her exclusive records, covering a range of subjects from love to death, food to music, which harmoniously form this book. Fiction or not, she has trusted you into her private world. Cherish her fearless gift

This novelette is about being able to smile at our adult selves, when one becomes acquainted with diverse ways of life and a multitude of acts that may seem not a norm to ones eyes. Welcome to the world of different cultures, where one soul, named Tausi (Swahili word for a Peacock) was exposed to varied cultural practices, both in her homeland in Africa and equally when she travelled abroad to the western world. These exposures made her to question what was right or wrong, blossoming her to an enlightened and colourfully plumaged bird.

I have always deeply wished to write a book for children. Then I learned of diamond poems, which are poems with two contrasting ideas, with a linking middle sentence, that changes from first to second idea using nouns. An idea struck my mind. I shall write a book intended to help children of all ages to build their vocabulary using these poems. A second idea reeled in. The book will include illustrations from diverse number of children. Then I had a dream, that this book would raise money to help a school in my hometown Korogwe. Then followed a second dream, that one day this book would be accessible to all school children in my native country Tanzania. In a few weeks time, this book came about. I had much fun revisiting my inner child during this journey. An added blessing was to have shared it with a bunch of creative kids whose work is portrayed here too. Have joy recalling the child in you!