The Rhodnius species were important models for Sir Vincent Wigglesworth's studies of insect physiology, specifically growth and development. Rhodnius amazonicus...
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Rhodnius prolixus is also known as the kissing bug (like other triatomine bugs) because it tends to feed on the area around victims' mouths. Rhodnius...
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are well adapted to living with humans (such as Triatoma infestans and Rhodnius prolixus) are considered important vectors. Also, proteins released from...
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Rhodnius pallescens is a species of insect from the genus Rhodnius. The species was originally described by H.G. Barber in 1932. This species is the main...
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Rhodnius nasutus is a Chagas disease vector native to the northeast of Brazil. It belongs to the family Reduviidae and subfamily Triatominae, which are...
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in the saliva of blood-feeding insects. Saliva of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus contains at least seven homologous nitrophorins, designated NP1...
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etiological agent of Chagas disease, is virulent to its triatomine vector Rhodnius prolixus in a temperature-dependent manner". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases...
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by various triatomine bugs in the genera Triatoma, Panstrongylus, and Rhodnius. The primary vectors for human infection are the species of triatomine...
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crustaceans, scorpions, various kinds of worms, and jellyfish. Adult Rhodnius prolixus – hematophagous on vertebrates – secrete lipocalins into the wound...
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Triatoma species and other members of the subfamily Triatominae, such as Rhodnius species, Panstrongylus megistus, and Paratriatoma hirsuta, are known as...
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of Five Essential Oils and Seven Monoterpenes on First-Instar Nymphs of Rhodnius prolixus". Journal of Medical Entomology. 46 (3): 511–515. doi:10.1603/033...
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hematophagous animals cannot survive on any other food. Examples include Rhodnius prolixus, a South American assassin bug, and Cimex lectularius, the human...
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baskets and other products. This plant is also a natural habitat of the Rhodnius brethesi which is a potential vector of Chagas disease and it is cited...
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Anopheles gambiae Culex quinquefasciatus Ixodes scapularis Pediculus humanus Rhodnius prolixus Genome browser Community annotation system Microarray and gene...
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aegypti, DUOX is involved in the control of the gut indigenous microbiota. Rhodnius prolixus has calcium activated DUOX, which is involved in eggshell hardening...
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the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus and of the haematophagous insect Rhodnius prolixus, which is a vector of chagas disease. Currently, pinoresinol is...
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multiple subtypes of the OctαR receptor. For example, the kissing bug (Rhodnius prolixus) has Octα1-R, Octα2R. OctβR (beta-adrenergic-like), are structurally...
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study, two adult Rhodnius had their blood systems linked, ensuring that the JH titre in both would be equal. One was a third instar Rhodnius, the other was...
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These hematophagous organisms such as malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.), Rhodnius and Schistosoma digest haemoglobin and release high quantities of free...
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that neurosecretory cells in the brain of the South American kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, secrete a crucial hormone that triggers the prothoracic gland...
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strategies as highly domesticated species like Triatoma infestans and Rhodnius prolixus. This is also the case for other sylvatic triatomine species (Triatominae)...
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Coura, J. R. (2004). "Fungal flora of the digestive tract of Rhodnius prolixus, Rhodnius neglectus, Diptelanogaster maximus and Panstrongylus megistus...
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include a nucleophilic displacement and an oxocarbenium ion intermediate. Rhodnius prolixus, a blood-sucking insect, forms hemozoin (Hz) during digestion...
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ovaries. They have also been described in spider embryos, earwig ovaries, Rhodnius, Calpodes, earthworms, retroviral-infected cells, mast cells, B-lymphocytes...
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to increase cAMP in the abdominal epidermis of the blood-sucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus. Rachinsky reported that synephrine was equipotent with octopamine...
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Meneguetti, DU; Soares, EB; Campaner, M; et al. (2014). "First report of Rhodnius montene-grensis (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) infection by Trypanosoma...
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symbionts do to adult mosquitoes. The first example of this technique used Rhodnius prolixus which is associated with the symbiont Rhodococcus rhodnii. R....
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Sanguisuga Texana Usinger and Triatoma Gerstaeckeri (Stal) Compared with Rhodnius Prolixus (Stal) (Hemiptera: Triatominae)." Journal of Medical Entomology...
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species of the subfamily, but otherwise it resembles the better-known Rhodnius prolixus. Ryckman, Raymond E.; Ryckman, Albert E. (1967). "Epizootiology...
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undergraduate degree, followed by a PhD), his research involved insects such as Rhodnius prolixus and later, Drosophila melanogaster. At Cambridge he was a fellow...
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