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Big Baby, Little Mother: Tsetse Flies Are Exceptions to the Juvenile Small Size Principle

BioEssays, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2020., 2020
Imagine a mother giving birth to a baby that weighs as much as she does. This is an impossibility for most of the animal kingdom. An exception exists in a group of insects, like blood‐feeding tsetse flies, where a single larva is born as heavy as its mother. Abstract While across the animal kingdom offspring are born smaller than their parents, notable
Lee R. Haines, Glyn A. Vale, Antoine M. G. Barreaux, Norman C. Ellstrand, John W. Hargrove, Sinead English   +5 more
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Anchored hybrid enrichment challenges the traditional classification of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 281-301, April 2020., 2020
We analyse the largest molecular dataset ever produced for the phylogenetic analysis of a fly lineage, with 950 loci from anchored hybrid enrichment comprising 435 930 bp from 101 species. The analysis revealed Paramacronychiinae as sister to Miltogramminae, not to Sarcophaginae, as suggested by adult morphology.
Eliana Buenaventura, Krzysztof Szpila, Brian K. Cassel, Brian M. Wiegmann, Thomas Pape   +4 more
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Diversity, Transmission, and Cophylogeny of Ledanteviruses (Rhabdoviridae: Ledantevirus) and Nycteribiid Bat Flies Parasitizing Angolan Soft-Furred Fruit Bats in Bundibugyo District, Uganda

Microorganisms, 2020
Obligate hematophagous ectoparasitic flies of the superfamily Hippoboscoidea are distributed worldwide, but their role as vectors and reservoirs of viruses remains understudied.
Andrew J. Bennett, Adrian C. Paskey, Jens H. Kuhn, Kimberly A. Bishop-Lilly, Tony L. Goldberg   +4 more
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Evolution, Multiple Acquisition, and Localization of Endosymbionts in Bat Flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae and Nycteribiidae) [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2013
ABSTRACTBat flies are a diverse clade of obligate ectoparasites on bats. Like most blood-feeding insects, they harbor endosymbiotic prokaryotes, but the origins and nature of these symbioses are still poorly understood. To expand the knowledge of bacterial associates in bat flies, the diversity and evolution of the dominant endosymbionts in six of ...
Solon F, Morse, Sarah E, Bush, Bruce D, Patterson, Carl W, Dick, Matthew E, Gruwell, Katharina, Dittmar   +5 more
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New Records of Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) for Mexico

Revista Colombiana de Entomología, 2016
Resumen Se reportan dos nuevos registros de moscas ectoparásitas de murciélagos (Diptera: Streblidae) para México ( Trichobius brennani y Anatrichobius scorzai ), así como otros seis nuevos registros para el estado de Veracruz ...
Cuxim Koyoc, Alan, Reyes Novelo, Enrique, Macswiney, M. Cristina, Aguilar Rodríguez, Pedro A.   +3 more
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Vetufebrus ovatus n. gen., n. sp. (Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) vectored by a streblid bat fly (Diptera: Streblidae) in Dominican amber

Parasites & Vectors, 2011
Background Both sexes of bat flies in the families Nycteribiidae and Streblidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) reside in the hair or on the wing membranes of bats and feed on blood.
Poinar George O
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First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Calyptrate flies include about 22,000 extant species currently classified into Hippoboscoidea (tsetse, louse, and bat flies), the muscoid grade (house flies and relatives) and the Oestroidea (blow flies, bot flies, flesh flies, and relatives ...
Pierfilippo Cerretti, John O Stireman, Thomas Pape, James E O'Hara, Marco A T Marinho, Knut Rognes, David A Grimaldi   +6 more
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Matrotrophic viviparity constrains microbiome acquisition during gestation in a live‐bearing cockroach, Diploptera punctata

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 9, Issue 18, Page 10601-10614, September 2019., 2019
Invertebrate systems offer unique opportunities to conduct studies on microbiome‐development‐reproduction dynamics since reproductive modes ranging from oviparity to multiple types of viviparity are found in these animals. One such invertebrate is the live‐bearing cockroach, and Diploptera punctata 16S rRNA sequencing was used to characterize the D ...
Emily C. Jennings, Matthew W. Korthauer, Trinity L. Hamilton, Joshua B. Benoit   +3 more
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Using DNA metabarcoding for simultaneous inference of common vampire bat diet and population structure

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 18, Issue 5, Page 1050-1063, September 2018., 2018
Abstract Metabarcoding diet analysis has become a valuable tool in animal ecology; however, co‐amplified predator sequences are not generally used for anything other than to validate predator identity. Exemplified by the common vampire bat, we demonstrate the use of metabarcoding to infer predator population structure alongside diet assessments ...
Kristine Bohmann, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Martin Nielsen, Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen, Gareth Jones, Daniel G. Streicker, M. Thomas P. Gilbert   +6 more
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Evolutionary History of Terrestrial Pathogens and Endoparasites as Revealed in Fossils and Subfossils

Advances in Biology, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014
The present work uses fossils and subfossils to decipher the origin and evolution of terrestrial pathogens and endoparasites. Fossils, as interpreted by morphology or specific features of their hosts, furnish minimum dates for the origin of infectious agents, coevolution with hosts, and geographical locations.
George Poinar Jr., Renfu Shao
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