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Atypical strategies for cuticle pigmentation in the blood-feeding hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus.
Genetics, 2022 Pigmentation in insects has been linked to mate selection and predator evasion, thus representing an important aspect for natural selection. Insect body color is classically associated to the activity of tyrosine pathway enzymes, and eye color to pigment
M. Berni +9 more
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bioRxiv, 2022 Kissing bugs (Hempitera: Reduviidae) are obligately and exclusively blood feeding insects. Vertebrate blood is thought to provide insufficient B vitamins to insects, which rely on obligate symbiotic relationships with bacteria that provision these ...
Carissa A. Gilliland +4 more
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Molecular genetics reveal that silvatic Rhodnius prolixus do colonise rural houses. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008 Rhodnius prolixus is the main vector of Chagas disease in Venezuela. Here, domestic infestations of poor quality rural housing have persisted despite four decades of vector control.
Sinead Fitzpatrick +4 more
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Elimination of Rhodnius prolixus in Central America [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2012 Rhodnius prolixus is one of the main vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas disease. In Central America, it was first discovered in 1915 in El Salvador, from where it spread northwest to Guatemala and Mexico, and southeast to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, arriving also in Honduras in the late 1950s.
Hashimoto Ken, Schofield Christopher J
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Behavioral responses of Rhodnius prolixus to volatile organic compounds released in vitro by bacteria isolated from human facial skin. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Previous studies have demonstrated the role of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by skin microbiota in the attraction of mosquitoes to humans. Recently, behavioral experiments confirmed the importance of VOCs released by skin microbiota in the ...
Marcela Tabares +5 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 Rhodnius prolixus (the kissing bug and a major vector of Chagas disease) is an obligate blood feeder that in the case of the fifth instar consumes up to 10 times its unfed body weight in a single 20-minute feed.
I. Orchard +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 We provide in this study a very large DNA dataset on Rhodnius species including 36 samples representing 16 valid species of the three Rhodnius groups, pictipes, prolixus and pallescens.
Jonathan Filée +8 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 Using the blood-sucking kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus as an experimental model, we have studied the involvement of insulin-like peptides (ILPs) and adipokinetic hormone (AKH) signaling in carbohydrate metabolism, focusing on the regulation of the ...
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Transovarial transmission of a core virome in the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 Triatomine assassin bugs comprise hematophagous insect vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. Although the microbiome of these species has been investigated to some extent, only one virus infecting Triatoma infestans has ...
T. Brito +7 more
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 Chagas disease is a human infectious disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and can be transmitted by triatomine vectors, such as Rhodnius prolixus. One limiting factor for T.
Kate K S Batista +6 more
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