How maternal investment varies with environmental factors and the age and physiological state of wild tsetse <i>Glossina pallidipes</i> and <i>Glossina morsitans morsitans</i>. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2018 Theory suggests females should optimize resource allocation across reproductive bouts to maximize lifetime reproduction, balancing current and future reproductive efforts according to physiological state and projected survival and reproduction.
Hargrove JW, Muzari MO, English S.
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Host-seeking efficiency can explain population dynamics of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans in response to host density decline. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2017 Females of all blood-feeding arthropod vectors must find and feed on a host in order to produce offspring. For tsetse—vectors of the trypanosomes that cause human and animal African trypanosomiasis—the problem is more extreme, since both sexes feed ...
Lord JS +4 more
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Hsp70/J-protein machinery from Glossina morsitans morsitans, vector of African trypanosomiasis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are the sole vectors of the protozoan parasites of the genus Trypanosoma, the causative agents of African Trypanosomiasis.
Stephen J Bentley, Aileen Boshoff
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Towards improving tsetse fly paratransgenesis: stable colonization of Glossina morsitans morsitans with genetically modified Sodalis. [PDF]
BMC Microbiol, 2018 Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) refractory to trypanosome infection are currently being explored as potential tools to contribute in the control of human and animal African trypanosomiasis.
De Vooght L +2 more
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An insight into the sialome of
BMC Genomics, 2010 Background Blood feeding evolved independently in worms, arthropods and mammals. Among the adaptations to this peculiar diet, these animals developed an armament of salivary molecules that disarm their host's anti-bleeding defenses (hemostasis ...
Soares Marcelo B +9 more
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Tsetse flies (<i>Glossina morsitans morsitans</i>) choose birthing sites guided by substrate cues with no evidence for a role of pheromones. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Tsetse flies significantly impact public health and economic development in sub-Saharan African countries by transmitting the fatal disease African trypanosomiasis.
Adden AK +3 more
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Annotations of novel antennae-expressed genes in male Glossina morsitans morsitans tsetse flies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Tsetse flies use antennal expressed genes to navigate their environment. While most canonical genes associated with chemoreception are annotated, potential gaps with important antennal genes are uncharacterized in Glossina morsitans morsitans.
Billiah K Bwana +10 more
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Serological responses and biomarker evaluation in mice and pigs exposed to tsetse fly bites. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014 BACKGROUND: Tsetse flies are obligate blood-feeding insects that transmit African trypanosomes responsible for human sleeping sickness and nagana in livestock.
Guy Caljon +6 more
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Peptidomics of Neuropeptidergic Tissues of the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans morsitans [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2015 Neuropeptides and peptide hormones are essential signaling molecules that regulate nearly all physiological processes. The recent release of the tsetse fly genome allowed the construction of a detailed in silico neuropeptide database (International Glossina Genome Consortium, Science 344, 380-386 (2014)), as well as an in-depth mass spectrometric ...
Jelle Caers +5 more
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Expression profiling of Trypanosoma congolense genes during development in the tsetse fly vector Glossina morsitans morsitans. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2018 The tsetse transmitted parasitic flagellate Trypanosoma congolense causes animal African trypanosomosis (AAT) across sub-Saharan Africa. AAT negatively impacts agricultural, economic, nutritional and subsequently, health status of the affected populace ...
Awuoche EO +6 more
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