Ons et al. (Ons et al., 2011), using bioinformatic tools and manual analysis, predicted that there are four peptides encoded in the myosuppresin prepropeptide with three of these confirmed by MALDI-TOF MS/MS; QDIDHVFMRFamide, pQDIDHVFMRFamide and pQDIDHVF(M-OH)RFamide. The latter two myosuppressins were confirmed using nano-LC and ESI-Orbi-Trap MS/MS (Sterkel et al., 2011) and are post-translationally modified versions of QDIDHVFMRFamide. The presence of pQ (pyro-glutamate) is common in myosuppressins of insects (see Nässel and Winther, 2010; Orchard and Lange, 2013), but the addition of a hydroxide group on the methionine has not been reported for myosuppresins and could either be a rare form of this peptide or a result of the procedure used to isolate these peptides during mass spectrometry (Ons et al., 2010). We have also confirmed the presence of pQDIDHVFMRFamide by MALDI-TOF MS from CNS extracts of R. prolixus. More experiments must be performed to confirm the existence and quantity of the ...

The blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus is the main vector of Chagas Disease in Colombia, Venezuela and several countries in Central America. Nitric oxide (NO) is a ubiquitous gaseous molecule present in most types of cell and participates in ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - The crystal structure of nitrophorin 2. A trifunctional antihemostatic protein from the saliva of Rhodnius prolixus. AU - Andersen, John F.. AU - Montfort, William R.. PY - 2000/9/29. Y1 - 2000/9/29. N2 - Nitrophorin 2 (NP2) (also known as prolixin-S) is a salivary protein that transports nitric oxide, binds histamine, and acts as an anticoagulant during blood feeding by the insect Rhodnius prolixus. The 2.0-Å crystal structure of NP2 reveals an eight-stranded antiparallel β-barrel containing a ferric heme coordinated through His57, similar to the structures of NP1 and NP4. All four Rhodnius nitrophorins transport NO and sequester histamine through heme binding, but only NP2 acts as an anticoagulant. Here, we demonstrate that recombinant NP2, but not recombinant NP1 or NP4, is a potent anticoagulant; recombinant NP3 also displays minor activity. Comparison of the nitrophorin structures suggests that a surface region near the C terminus and the loops between β strands B-C and ...

Rhodnius prolixus are ectoparasitic solenophages that feed primarily on the blood of mammals and birds. Rhodnius prolixus have sucking mouthparts which fold back beneath the head and thorax when at rest. The mouthparts consist of long stylets that include a short labrum with a long tubular labium that contains the mandibles and the maxillae. The maxillae enclose a food canal for sucking fluid, and a salivary canal that injects saliva to help digest host tissue.. The saliva contains some anticoagulants, and the painless bites of R. prolixus are usually around the eyes and mouth of the host, where they can suck blood for several minutes. Endosymbiotic bacteria help to digest the blood ingested by R. prolixus. The bacteria are contained in epithelial cells of the triatomine gut and are found among many of its tissues throughout its growth and maturation.. Dogs, cats, and rats are important Rhodnius prolixus hosts in urban environments. Some other less common hosts include opossum, armadillos, bats, ...

Circadian rhythms of triatomines, vectors of the etiological agent Trypanosoma cruzi responsible for Chagas disease, have been extensively studied in adults of the two most epidemiologically relevant vector species, Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma infestans. However, little attention has been dedicated to the activity patterns in earlier developmental stages, even though triatomine nymphs are equally capable of transmitting T. cruzi to humans. Because circadian rhythms may differ even between closely related species, studies that focus on this behavioral trait can also be used to shed light on the taxonomy of controversial taxa, which becomes especially relevant regarding vector species. We compared the daily locomotor activity patterns of second- and third-instar nymphs of Rhodnius prolixus and Rhodnius robustus in order to unveil possible behavioral differences between these cryptic species. Mitochondrial and nuclear markers were sequenced to confirm species identification. Nymphs of both species had a

ROCHA, Dayse da Silva; GALVAO, Cleber and JURBERG, José. Biology of Rhodnius pictipes Stal, 1872 under laboratory conditions (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz [online]. 1994, vol.89, n.2, pp.265-270. ISSN 0074-0276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761994000200028.. Rhodnius pictipes Stal, 1872 is a silvatic species with a widespread distribution in South America, found in nine Brazilian states, naturally infected by Trypanosoma cruzi and T. rangeli. The individual rearing of this species under laboratory conditions, allowed the following biological aspects to be observed: incubation time, search for first meal after eclosion or moult, time - lapse between presentation of the blood meal and the beginning of feeding, duration of blood meal, time and place of defecation, number of blood meals, duration of each instar and adult longevity, and time required from egg to adult.. Keywords : Rhodnius pictipes; evolutive cycle; laboratory conditions; Triatominae; life cycle. ...

This thesis analyses several factors affecting the control of triatomines in Guatemala. There are three synantropic triatomines in Guatemala, i.e., Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma dimidiata and T. nitida. Their distibution is mainly at an altitude between 800 and 1500 m a.s.l. R. prolixus and T. nitida have localized but scaterred distibution while T. dimidiata is present in 21 of the 22 departments in the country. Several investigations have shown that R. prolixus could be relatively easily eradicated while T. dimidiata may be more difficult to control, since it is present in domestic, peridomestic and sylvatic environments showing high diversity and a variety of epidemiological characteristics. Based on the incidence of Trypanosma cruzi infection in humans in the distributional areas of the triatomines, R. prolixus appear to be a more competent vector than T. dimidiata. This is despite the fact that these vectors have similar infection rates. Inside houses, R. prolixus and T. dimidiata and in ...

Mono- and Stereopictres of 5.0 Angstrom coordination sphere of Iron atom in PDB 1koi: Crystal Structure of Nitrophorin 4 From Rhodnius Prolixus Complexed With Nitric Oxide At 1.08 A Resolution

Rhodnius prolixus is an haematophagous bug distributed over Venezuela, Colombia, and it is also important in some regions of Central America, spe...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Nitric oxide binding to the ferri- and ferroheme states of nitrophorin 1, a reversible NO-binding heme protein from the saliva of the blood-sucking insect, Rhodnius prolixus. AU - Ding, Xiao D.. AU - Weichsel, Andrzej. AU - Andersen, John F.. AU - Shokhireva, Tatjana Kh. AU - Balfour, Celia. AU - Pierik, Antonio J.. AU - Averill, Bruce A.. AU - Montfort, William R.. AU - Walker, F. Ann. PY - 1999/1/13. Y1 - 1999/1/13. N2 - The recombinant NO-binding heme protein, nitrophorin 1 (NP1) from the saliva of the bloodsucking insect, Rhodnius prolixus, has been studied by spectroelectrochemistry, EPR, NMR, and FTIR spectroscopies and X-ray crystallography. It is found that NP1 readily binds NO in solution and in the crystalline state, but the protein is not readily autoreduced by excess NO. Likewise, dithionite is not a very effective reductant of NP1. However, the protein can be photoreduced by illumination with visible light in the presence of excess NO, deazaflavin, and EDTA. Optical ...

1. The sucking pump of Rhodnius drives blood from the host into the abdomen at a rate of up to 20 mm.3/min. The stylet canal is 8-10 µ diameter at the apex and the rate of taper is not more than 1 µ increase in diameter/100 µ length.. 2. The pressure required to force water through such a tube at that rate is about 2 atmospheres. The pressure required with blood would be higher.. 3. The musculature of the pump is theoretically capable of exerting a force on the pump piston of at least atmospheres, while contracting at the required speed.. 4. The bug is capable of feeding at near to the normal rate when the surrounding pressure is 0.2 atmospheres and also against a pressure gradient of 0.2 atmospheres.. ...

The circulating hemocytes are essential for the insect immunity. In R. prolixus seven morphological hemocyte types were identified by phase-contrast microscopy: prohemocytes, granulocytes, plasmatocytes, cystocytes, oenocytes and adipohemocytes and giant cells [78]. Some cellular immune reactions have been studied in T. rangeli-triatomine interactions. Garcia et al. [29], demonstrated for the first time that eicosanoid biosynthesis inhibitors applied to R. prolixus strongly affect hemocyte microaggregation, one of the cellular immune reactions. The main data found by these authors were: (i) insects that had previously been fed on blood containing biosynthesis inhibitors of PLA2 (dexamethasone) and COX (indomethacin) and non-selective LOX inhibitor (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, NDGA) showed a significant increase in the number of free epimastigote forms of T. rangeli in the hemolymph and, consequently, increased lethality; and (ii) the parasite infection in insects treated with these compounds led ...

The formation of tracheae in Rhodnius is described by the hypothesis of expansion and buckling. The cuticulin lining is at first a smooth-walled cylinder. Later it expands equally in each direction, increasing in diameter but buckling in the axis. An engineering expression describing symmetrical buckling in a cylinder under uniform axial compression has been applied to this process. Agreement was obtained between the expected and observed values for buckling frequency and tube-wall thickness. The taenidia are formed within the buckles, their amplitude being proportional to the increase in diameter. The axial orientation of the chitin micelles in the lining membrane and the tangential orientation in the taenidia are consistent with their being oriented by the stresses expected during expansion and buckling. The formation of tracheoles may also be described by the expansion and buckling hypothesis.. ...

Warning: The NCBI web site requires JavaScript to function. more… Generate a file for use with external citation management software. Insect repellents are known since many decades ago and constitute a major tool for personal protection against the biting of mosquitoes. Despite their wide use, the understanding of why and how repellents repel is relatively recent. In particular, the question about to what extent insects other than mosquitoes are repulsed by repellents remains open. We developed a series of bioassays aimed to test the performance of well established as well as potential repellent molecules on the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius prolixus. Besides testing their ability to prevent biting, we tested the way in which they act, i.e., by obstructing the detection of attractive odours or by themselves. By using three different experimental protocols (host-biting, open-loop orientation to odours and heat-triggered proboscis extension response) we show that DEET repels bugs both in the ...

An entomological survey was carried out in four rural localities situated in the state of Ceará, assessing Chagas disease seroprevalence in man, focus

To test the effect of blood intake on ROS levels in the R. prolixus midgut, we incubated midguts from unfed insects and those taken 1 h and 4 days after blood meal (ABM) with the ROS-sensitive probe DHE. ROS levels were markedly reduced within 1 h ABM in both the anterior and posterior sections of the midgut (Figures 1A and 1B). ROS remained at similar levels during later stages of blood digestion, as determined by fluorescence images obtained at 4 days ABM (Figures 1A and 1B). To validate the results obtained using fluorescence microscopy, DHE oxidation products were analysed by HPLC, as DHE oxidation is known to yield two distinct products: EOH, selectively formed when DHE is oxidized by superoxide, and E, which can be generated through reactions with different oxidant species [21]. Figures 1(C) and 1(D) demonstrates that the EOH levels were remarkably higher in both midgut compartments of the unfed insects, indicating that, under this condition, superoxide radicals represent the dominant ROS ...

Introducción. Trypanosoma rangeli es la segunda especie de tripanosoma que infecta al hombre en América Latina. Se ha observado variabilidad en las características biológicas, bioquímicas y moleculares en diferentes aislamientos de este parásito. Objetivo. Estudiar las características morfológicas y moleculares de cepas de T. rangeli aisladas de diferentes especies de Rhodnius e inoculadas en diferentes especies de vertebrados. Materiales y métodos. Se utilizaron 19 cepas de T. rangeli aisladas de R. prolixus, R. pallescens y R. colombiensis en Colombia, R. ecuadoriensis en Perú y R. pallescens en Panamá. Se evaluó el polimorfismo de los tripomastigotes sanguíneos en ratones ICR y se estudió el pleomorfismo de la cepa P53 de T. rangeli KP1(-) inoculada en ratón, marsupial y canino. Se efectuó análisis de ADN polimorfo amplificado aleatorio en 12 cepas aisladas de cuatro especies de Rhodnius. Resultados. Se observaron tres grupos discretos en la longitud total de los ...

The aim of this work was to identify and report the occurrence of Trypanosoma rangeli and Trypanosoma cruzi in naturally infected Rhodnius nasutus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Triatomines feces, salivary glands, and hemolymph were collected for fresh examination, and specific detection of T. rangeli and T. cruzi DNA by polymerase chain reaction was carried out. The specific characterization of these two parasites showed the simultaneous presence of both parasites in two (7.7%) of the 26 positive insects. Our results provide further knowledge on the geographical distribution of T. rangeli in Brazil ...

Analysis of zymograms with SDS-polyacrilamide gel electrophoresis containing gelatin as substrate, and performed on samples of haemolymph or fat body taken from Rhodnius prolixus inoculated or not with Enterobacter cloacae, demonstrated distinct patterns of protease activities: (i) in the haemolymph two proteases were induced in insects inoculated with bacteria; (ii) two proteases were detected in the fat bodies derived from non-inoculated controls or insect inoculated with sterile culture medium; (iii) haemolymph and fat body had both the same apparent molecular weights proteases (46 and 56 kDa); and (iv) these enzymes were characterized as metallo-proteases. The association of these enzymes in Rhodnius infected with bacteria was discussed. ...

Researchers at SFU and at Brazils Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) are collaborating to determine why certain insects transmit diseases. The work has brought Brazilian scientist Pedro Oliveira to SFU for a two-week stint to work with his collaborator, biological sciences professor Carl Lowenberger.. The two researchers began their collaboration nearly a decade ago after discovering they were both involved in similar research on insects that transmit harmful and deadly diseases, including Dengue virus, Zika virus, and Chagas disease.. Lowenberger says the two are among a rare few research scientists who study both Aedes aegypti, the insect that transmits Dengue and Zika, and Rhodnius prolixus, the kissing bug that transmits Chagas disease.. Much of our research looks at how these insect vectors recognize and eliminate parasites, and how the parasites inactivate or modulate the immune systems of the insect vectors for their own benefit, says Lowenberger.. ...

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Kissing bugs have spread to parts of Florida and other parts of the southern U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. Here are five fast facts about the bloodsucking critters and the disease they carry.

Lent began on March 5, which means many of you may have given up certain foods, drinks, or other things in observance for 40 days. These 40 days of abstinence mean a lot of important things to different people, of course-but theres a health angle here too. For some, it also offers an opportunity to see if cutting a specific unhealthy item out of your diet for six weeks can make a difference. Two years ago, our own Anna nixed soda for Lent-and, since then, she says she hardly touches the sweet, bubbly stuff. So what other foods and drinks do people decide to say see ya during Lent? Sugar (like Mariska Hargitay): @hargitaayyy: @Mariska how are you gonna give up sugar if you love chocolate????? How?I gotta do what I gotta do. its for Lent.....- Mariska Hargitay (@Mariska) March 5, 2014 Chips (like Maria Shriver): What is everyone giving up for lent? For me its hello 40 days and 40 nights, goodbye chips and guacamole.- Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) March 5, 2014 Junk food (like Shaun Robinson): First

Having Ash Wednesday begin so early in February makes it difficult to me to get into gear. Every year I make some decisions on what areas to focus on during Lent, but even as I choose them, I always wait for God to send me His penance for me for Lent. He knows just what I need. And when Lent begins earlier, I know that I already have one of my beginning penances: keeping calm and persevering even when I am falling behind and feeling discouraged. I’m not ready for Lent to start, but I

Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial-published earlier this week in a medical journal-that called it the new AIDS of the Americas. More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.. The editorial, published by the Public Library of Sciences Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV. Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities. Unlike HIV, Chagas is not a sexually-transmitted disease; its caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, as the New York Times put it.. ...

Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial-published earlier this week in a medical journal-that called it the new AIDS of the Americas. More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.. The editorial, published by the Public Library of Sciences Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV. Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities. Unlike HIV, Chagas is not a sexually-transmitted disease; its caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, as the New York Times put it.. ...

Although scientists have found fossils of suspected blood-sucking insects, the creatures feeding habits have mostly been inferred from their anatomy or the presence of blood-borne parasites in their guts. But Greenwalts fossilized mosquito contains molecules that provide strong evidence of blood-feeding among ancient insects back to 46 million years ago. It is a fortunate find. The abdomen of a blood-engorged mosquito is like a balloon ready to burst. It is very fragile, says Greenwalt. The chances that it wouldnt have disintegrated prior to fossilization were infinitesimally small. ...

Blood-sucking insects like mosquitoes are among the most dangerous disease transmitters in the world. Vector-borne diseases, which include malaria, dengue fever

People are cashing in on the Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Preventions offer to buy so-called kissing bugs－dead or alive. The triatomine bugs can spread the potentially fatal Chagas disease.We have now received more than a dozen... - Read more at AsiaOne

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me, on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me. I am not yet born; provide me With water to dandle me, grass to grow for me, trees to talk to me, sky to sing to me, birds and a white light in the back of my mind to guide me. I am not yet born; forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, my treason engendered by traitors beyond me, my life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me. I am not yet born; rehearse me In the parts I must play and the cues I must take when old men lecture me, bureaucrats hector me, mountains frown at me, lovers laugh at me, the white waves call me to folly and the desert calls me to doom and the beggar refuses my ...

After years of sci-fi nuts and phoney professors claiming they have built a cyborg - part machine, part living tissue - it would appear that someone has actually done it.. It cant do very much and its incredible inefficient but it actually does use biological material to communicate with machinery to some practical end. What is it? The brain stem of a bloodsucking fish called a lamprey stuck in an oxygenated salt solution and connected to a robot.. What does it do? Detect light and then turn to face it. If a light shines on it, the brain sends out an electronic pulse. This is sent through a microprocessor which causes the robots wheels to move and face the light source.. Thats it really. Not really very useful and its not a cyborg in any sense of the word. And it dies after a few days. But we are bigging it up simply because it works and actually is what its creators say it is. Honesty basically.. Of course, the scientists at the University of Chicago got a little carried away when quizzed ...

9.E + dried or decayed wood that can be used as tinder or a slang term that may be used for something or someone regarded as worthless or inferior = a tiny bloodsucking fly. 5 or ...

In Not Like Others, Vera and Vanja are a pair of vampire sisters, bloodsucking outcasts struggling to live a secret life in semi-isolation in the bleak suburbs of Stockholm. While hanging out together in one of the citys dive bar nightclubs, Vera makes the fatal mistake of feeding on and killing the leader of a skinhead biker gang in one of the clubs toilet stalls. When the bodyis discovered by one of the victims buddies, the sisters are forced to run into the night, pursued by a gang of ruthless thugs intent on revenge.. During the intimidating ordeal of being hunted, Vanja begins to open up to Vera and reveals her already-rooted but, until now, unspoken plans to give up being an outsider, to try and adjust to the real world and to begin a relationship with a human with whom she believes she has fallen in love. Terrified by the idea of having to live a life of solitude as a vampire without her sister, Vera decides she will do anything to keep Vanja by her side. Meanwhile, the skinhead bikers ...

These are one of the most irritating, stubborn, bloodsucking species of pests and theyre determined to thrive despite your best efforts. While certain types confine their feeding to animals, others are equally satisfied with human blood. Cat and dog fleas resemble each other closely, feed interchangeably between the two and…

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reflection and preparation for Lent. Top of mind was: what would I sacrifice for 40 days to signify Christs journey into the desert and temptation by Satan? As a sign of my commitment to Creation, I vowed to go without single-use plastic. No bags for bananas or broccoli. No plastic lids. Only reusable bags for groceries. Fast forward to mid-March and the darkness of Lent reached a new level with the reality that we are all vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Weve endured illness and deaths of loved ones, young and old; greed and hoarding; lost jobs and income. But the light and joy of Easter are coming. Light shines from healthcare workers risking their lives to save us; donations that are feeding and housing the most vulnerable; and millions of people staying home to flatten the curve.. ...

My plans for Lent were modest as such things go, but Ash Wednesday wasnt even over before that old adage: Man plans, God laughs, came into my head. Yall, its hard not to feel you are failing at Lent when you cant even make it to Ash Wednesday Mass to get ashes. Heres what happened.…

Lent is here again, and Covid-19 remains the reality in our lives. Usually during Lent, we think about what we are giving up as our fast during this season leading to Easter, and often it is something like meat, wine, chocolate, or sex that people choose to eschew. Perhaps this year is different due to…

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Tomorrow, Lent begins. For those of you not familiar with the season, Lent takes place for the 40 days before Easter. It is traditionally a time of fasting, prayer and almsgiving. If you had Catholic friends growing up, you may have overheard, or participated in earnest discussions about what to

In the summer of 2010, the Rolling Plains of West Texas expected a bumper crop of quail. By October, they nearly had vanished. A new study shows the cause to be a blood-sucking parasite.

Today is the first day of Lent also known as Ash Wednesday. Lent is 40 days long where one can take the opportunity to reflect, meditate, pray and purge our lives of the impurities that we may take on more than we would like to admit. Personally, Lent for me is a time of calm, rest, meditation, prayer, and eliminating all things that take you out of that state. You dont have to be religious to practice Lent, for the most part I think we can all take a little time out to unplug from a lot of things that have grips on our attention. Another way you can practice Lent is by giving up your vices, whatever that may be. Here are some things that Im giving up for 40 days with the hopes that I forgot about how great they are and never touch it again. *crossing fingers. ...

It is an undeniable human fact that we are more comfortable around those who honor and extol our achievements (real or imagined) than we are with those who speak as bluntly and unflatteringly as they deem necessary. Yet the truth is often painful, and an unwillingness to welcome criticism along with praise is the surest way to spiritual stagnation. If we are unwilling to recognize that flattery and comfort are useless tools in the quest for self-perfect, we may find ourselves unable to act upon the truth when it is presented to us by those who place our needs before their own.. And so, as Lent draws to a close, let us embrace this yearly reminder to distance ourselves from those vices of pleasantness plague us. Its time for us to realize that we could all do with a few more Cordelias.. (King Lear is available through Netflixs Watch Instantly. But it can also be found on the Great Performances section of the PBS website, along with a cornucopia of fascinating support material.). ...

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In hairy wet attachment systems, the role of the secretion still remains unclear. It has already been shown that the presence of the fluid is required for generating adhesion in insect adhesive pads. For example, as shown in 1970, attachment was impaired when hairy pads of the bug Rhodnius prolixus were treated with organic solvents (Edwards & Tarkanian 1970). In 1980, experiments with beetles on various substrates also strongly suggested that cohesive forces, surface tension and molecular adhesion, mediated by pad secretion, may be involved in the mechanism of attachment (Stork 1980). It was inferred from experiments (Wallentin et al. 1999; Gorb 2001) that the secretion induces a viscous resistance to detachment of the pad from the substrate and a capillary attraction that applies both before and during detachment (static and dynamic processes). Later, on the scale of individual seta terminal plates, experiments conducted on the fly Calliphora vicina using multiple local force-volume atomic ...

Fig 1 Transmission cycles of Trypanosoma cruzi. (a) Enzootic transmission in the Amazon rainforest: no domestic colonies of triatomine bugs exist, but infrequent, sporadic cases of Chagas disease may occur due to adult bugs flying to palm presses or houses, or when the triatomine species Rhodnius brethesi attacks workers sleeping in the forest to harvest piassaba palms. (b) An example of separate silvatic and domestic transmission cycles in Bahia state, Brazil: left, houses are infested by the triatomine bug Panstrongylus megistus; right, bromeliad epiphytes, refuges of the opossum (Didelphis albiventris), are infested by the triatomine bug Triatoma tibiamaculata. T cruzi II is found in the domestic cycle and T cruzi I in the silvatic cycle. (c) An example of overlapping silvatic and domestic transmission cycles in parts of Venezuela: the triatomine genus Rhodnius has several similar species; R prolixus may infest both houses and palms. Molecular analysis of triatomine vectors and T cruzi ...

A bloodsucking insect known as Triatoma sanguisuga, or a kissing bug, has been found in Delaware for the first time, public health officials said this week.

A bloodsucking insect known as Triatoma sanguisuga, or a kissing bug, has been found in Delaware for the first time, public health officials said this week.

A bloodsucking insect known as Triatoma sanguisuga, or a kissing bug, has been found in Delaware for the first time, public health officials said this week.

The blood-sucking species of reduviid bugs belong to the subfamily Triatominae which comprises 15 genera and almost 100 species and subspecies. Principal species of medical importance are Rhodnius...

INTRODUCTION. Eye color in Triatoma infestans is genetically controlled at a single autosomal locus in such a way that black eyes are produced by the dominant gene (wild) and red eyes by the homozygous recessive gene (mutant) (Wygodzinsky & Briones, 1954; Dujardin & Bermúdez, 1986). No significant differences in oviposition or egg hatching rates have been associated with the parental eye-color phenotypes in this species (Pires et al., 2002). Although no impairment of mating attractiveness or mating success has been related to the red-eyed color, it has been suggested that sperm cells from red-eyed males have a lower viability compared to those of black-eyed specimens, thus explaining why red-eyed mutants of T. infestans are uncommon in natural populations (Pires et al., 2002).. At the cellular level, nuclear phenotypes in the Malpighian tubules of red-eyed T. infestans do not differ from those of black-eyed individuals, at least under full nourishment conditions (Gonçalves et al., ...

Abstract. Conventional methodologies to control vector borne diseases with chemical pesticides are often associated with environmental toxicity, adverse effects on human health and the emergence of insect resistance. In the paratransgenic strategy, symbiotic or commensal microbes of host insects are transformed to express gene products that interfere with pathogen transmission. These genetically altered microbes are re-introduced back to the insect where expression of the engineered molecules decreases the hosts ability to transmit the pathogen. We have successfully utilized this strategy to reduce carriage rates of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, in the triatomine bug, Rhodnius prolixus, and are currently developing this methodology to control the transmission of Leishmania donovani by the sand fly Phlebotomus argentipes. Several effector molecules, including antimicrobial peptides and highly specific single chain antibodies, are currently being explored for their ...

Risk is present in rural areas below 1500 m / 4,921 ft with the highest incidence rates reported from the departments of Chiquimula, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Santa Rosa, and Zacapa. The blood supply is not screened appropriately.. Main vectors: Triatoma dimidiata, Rhodnius prolixus. ...

Risk is present in rural areas below 1500m with the highest incidence rates reported from the departments of Choletuca, Comayagau, Cortés, Francisco Morazán, Intibucá, La Paz, Santa Barbara, and Yoro. Blood supply screening is mandatory.. Main vectors: Triatoma dimidiata, Rhodnius prolixus. ...

Compared to all the horrors and real problems in the world, a bedbug infestation might seem insignificant. That is, until it happens to you - in which case you realize its one of lifes most horrifying, stressful and expensive experiences.. I know this because it happened to my family in 2012 after a wonderful, memory-making vacation to Washington D.C.. June 5-11, 2016 is national Bed Bug Awareness Week.. As a scrappy traveler who has crashed on many couches, I was fine with renting two-star motels - if the price was right. However, after bringing home these evil, blood-sucking bugs as souvenirs and spending thousands of dollars to get rid of them, I am much, much, much more careful about when I rest my head when on the road.. The disturbing fact is, bedbugs are found everywhere - from cheap flop houses to the most opulent hotels. The belief that lack of cleanliness or poverty attracts bedbugs is myth. Blood, body heat and CO2 attract bedbugs and since all humans provide this, infestations ...

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Professor Ian Orchard from U of T Mississaugas Department of Biology held a captive audience Thursday evening with a talk that covered lots of ground including his extensive insect research, the history and effects of Chagas disease, how his work relates to neural communication and the Rhodnius-Genome project with which his lab is involved.. As a recipient of the 2013 Research Excellence Award, Orchard delivered the talk, The Kiss of Death: Rhodnius prolixus, Chagas disease and what has this to do with neuroscience? It was an engaging discussion for those in attendance to learn some of the details of Orchards lifework, and the audience was an extensive assemblage of staff, students and faculty members from various departments across UTM.. In his introduction to the lecture, Vice-Principal Bryan Stewart mentioned that Orchard is a world-renowned insect neurophysiologist, and has worked on insect neural systems and neuroendocrinology with a variety of specimens, such as locusts, leeches, ...

Monoclonal antibody against ecdysone receptor (EcR) (common), Manduca sexta expressed by EcR for use in Immunofluorescence, Immunohistochemistry, Western Blot against Bombyx mori, Drosophila, Locusta migratoria, Manduca, Rhodnius prolixus

Apyrase activity from the crop soluble contents of Rhodnius prolixus after artificial and forced feeding.The activity was expressed as ng of inorganic phosphate

Bound lipids persist in ester wax sections of tissues fixed in glutaraldehyde. They do not take up Sudan black B. They are unmasked by dilute sodium hypochlorite and then stain readily with the Sudan dye and are extractable in warm chloroform and methanol.. Bound lipids have been studied in tissues from the mouse and from the insects Rhodnius, Periplaneta and Calliphora. They are so widely distributed that Sudan staining alone gives an informative histological picture.. They occur in nucleoli and the nuclear envelope, in the nuclear matrix and in the cytoplasm (especially when rich in endoplasmic reticulum), in plasma membranes and their invaginations and evaginations (microvilli), in septate desmosomes, and particularly in mitochondria, dictyosomes and myelin.. In erythrocytes they are not only concentrated in the surface membrane but are distributed throughout the interior of the cell. In muscle fibrils (papillary muscle of the ventricle and fibrillar flight muscle of Calliphora) bound lipid ...

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Quantifying genomic variation provides information that can be used to understand the evolutionary history of populations. Here, I examined populations of Euphilotes pallescens, a species of butterfly that lives within the Great Basin of western North America. I genotyped 376 butterflies at over 90,000 loci to address questions surrounding gene exchange among lineages of E. pallescens and other geographically proximate Euphilotes species. I also investigated what relative contributions of historical and contemporary admixture to the patterns I saw. I stratified loci into common and rare loci based on minor allele frequencies to investigate historical and contemporary genetic structure, respectively. I used a Bayesian hierarchical model to visualize and quantify genetic variation in two analyses: one included only E. pallescens populations, while the second analysis was performed at the genus-level. I found evidence of both historical and contemporary gene exchange among subspecies within E. ...

A dog mummy containing preserved ticks and flies reveals the first archaeological evidence of parasite infestations in dogs from ancient Egypt.

SUBJECTIVEIn this episode, we talk about the vampires curse, vampire epidemics, and... rocks? Does the vampire legend have its roots in real life disease? Probably not, but well tell you about some interesting ones anyway! Ultimately, this ep came to be because we want to talk about a very specific scene in Twilight, but figured it would be good to provide some folkloric context first. Little did we know, all of the vampire research we did has little to nothing to do with the Cullens - oh well!OBJECTIVEResources, Citations, and Mentions:Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber, Yale University Press, April 2010Vampires: Fact, Fiction and Folklore, by Benjamin Radford, Live Science, October 2014The Great New England Vampire Panic, by Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, October 2012A Natural History of Vampires, by Eric Michael Johnson, The Primate Diaries, Scientific American, October 2011

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Well winter has spring upon Florida rather quickly this year, bringing freezing temperatures that many of my palms trees cannot handle. Fortunately most of these are in pots, so the easiest fix to prevent them from freezing is bring them into to garage. This not only protects them from the frost but protects them from damaging winds as well, since the radiant heat from the house as well as the lighting in the garage will keep them happy. Now Im sure many of you however have planted a palm tree or two that are not as cold hardy, and therefore do not have the luxury of just bringing them in to protect them from freezing. If you are one of these people, here is what I suggest. First, you will need some way to provide heat to your protect your palm. Many people will first string a few strands of Christmas lights both around the trunk of the palm and over or through the fronds. Some even place a floodlight or two and angle them up towards the fronds. After placing your lights the next step would be ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - You think incumbent politicians are hard to get rid of? Try bedbugs.. The blood-sucking insects have made a resurgence in recent years, including reports of them at nine of the hotels being used for Democrats nominating convention this week in Charlotte.. Some convention-goers were fearful in the run-up to the convention, and state officials and exterminators said bedbug reports have been on the uptick in and around the Queen City.. But county health officials say they have taken precautions to make sure the pests arent waiting in hotel rooms to go home with guests as unwanted souvenirs.. We did inspect all of the hotels and we do respond to complaints, said Stephen Graham, an environmental supervisor for the Mecklenburg County Health Department. Were required to inspect them once a year, and we inspected them all after the start of the new fiscal year [July 1].. The rise in the pests activity has led to the advent of websites such as BedBugReports.com and ...

Fleas are small, black blood-sucking insects that measure 1-3mm in length and are one of the most common parasites found on cats. In fact, nearly all cats will suffer from a flea infestation at some point in their lives. Read more. ...

Fleas are small, black blood-sucking insects that measure 1-3mm in length and are one of the most common parasites found on cats. In fact, nearly all cats will suffer from a flea infestation at some point in their lives. Read more. ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH). April 19, 2016. Summer can be a bummer if outdoor fun is interrupted by the irritating buzz of mosquitoes. Their bites not only create itchy red bumps on your skin; they also carry the risk of disease. NIH-funded scientists are working to find better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent mosquito-borne illnesses. And we can all take simple steps to avoid getting bit by those blood-sucking insects.. Most mosquito bites are relatively harmless. The itchy bumps often last for just a day or 2 after a mosquito has punctured your skin. But if the mosquito is carrying certain germs, like viruses or parasites, these pathogens might enter your blood during the bite and make you sick.. The diseases spread by mosquito bites can be serious. Some experts call mosquitoes the worlds most deadly animal. Mosquito-related illnesses kill about 725,000 people worldwide each year. By comparison, snakes kill about 50,000; tapeworms about 2,000; and sharks only about 10 people per ...

Scientists are close to figuring out how a tiny, pesky mosquito can survive a virus that kills humans millions of times its size. The blood-sucking insect creates an immediate and potent immunity not strong enough to kill the virus but strong enough to save the mosquitos life, according to new research from Colorado State University. The finding could bring scientists closer to eradicating mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis. Years from now, scientists might genetically modify mosquitoes that are fully immune to viruses, CSU researchers said. They would release these stronger, more robust mosquitoes into the wild to win the battle of natural selection - the fittest mosquitoes eventually would replace the ones run down by carrying viruses in their bodies. You cant fight evolution, said Dr. Carol Blair, professor of microbiology, immunology and pathology, and a study author. Youve got to figure out how to manipulate it. Genetically ...

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Even though Chagas Disease currently infects an estimated 300,000 to 1,000,000 people in the United States, very few people, including doctors would recognize this disease if they saw it. Its a vector-borne illness carried by the Kissing Bug, an insect that looks a little bit like a leaf bug (except without the flared legs…kissing bugs have straight, smooth legs ...

Chagas disease is caused by a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, that is transmitted to humans through the feces of infected bloodsucking insects in endemic areas of Latin America, or occasionally by nonvectorial mechanisms, such as blood transfusion. Cardiac involvement, which typically appears decades after the initial infection, may result in cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular aneurysm, congestive heart failure, thromboembolism, and sudden cardiac death ...

African sleeping sickness is a fatal disease caused by parasitic, single-celled microbes called trypanosomes. The disease gets its name from the terminal stage when the trypanosomes invade the brain and cause the patient to become comatose. In Africa, trypanosomes also infect animals, causing a wasting disease - Nagana - that has devastated livestock production in many regions. Both human and animal trypanosomes are transmitted from host to host by the same bloodsucking tsetse flies. This potentially allows mating and exchange of genes to occur between the human and animal parasites inside the fly, leading to the generation of new strains not previously encountered by either humans or animals. The Bristol team used different coloured fluorescent markers to genetically tag trypanosomes of human or animal origin. These red and green parasite lines were then allowed to mix inside tsetse flies. Any hybrid offspring were easily detected, because they fluoresced both red and green.. Further studies ...