Rhodnius is a genus of assassin bugs in the subfamily Triatominae (the kissing bugs),[1] and is an important vector in the spread of Chagas disease.[2] The Rhodnius species were important models for Sir Vincent Wigglesworth's studies of insect physiology, specifically growth and development.[3]
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The Rhodnius species were important models for Sir Vincent Wigglesworth's studies of insect physiology, specifically growth and development. Rhodnius amazonicus...
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...
are well adapted to living with humans (such as Triatoma infestans and Rhodnius prolixus) are considered important vectors. Also, proteins released from...
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...
Rhodnius nasutus is a Chagas disease vector native to the northeast of Brazil. It belongs to the family Reduviidae and subfamily Triatominae, which are...
in the saliva of blood-feeding insects. Saliva of the blood-sucking bug Rhodnius prolixus contains at least seven homologous nitrophorins, designated NP1...
etiological agent of Chagas disease, is virulent to its triatomine vector Rhodnius prolixus in a temperature-dependent manner". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases...
by various triatomine bugs in the genera Triatoma, Panstrongylus, and Rhodnius. The primary vectors for human infection are the species of triatomine...
Triatoma species and other members of the subfamily Triatominae, such as Rhodnius species, Panstrongylus megistus, and Paratriatoma hirsuta, are known as...
hematophagous animals cannot survive on any other food. Examples include Rhodnius prolixus, a South American assassin bug, and Cimex lectularius, the human...
crustaceans, scorpions, various kinds of worms, and jellyfish. Adult Rhodnius prolixus – hematophagous on vertebrates – secrete lipocalins into the wound...
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...
strategies as highly domesticated species like Triatoma infestans and Rhodnius prolixus. This is also the case for other sylvatic triatomine species (Triatominae)...
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...
These hematophagous organisms such as malaria parasites (Plasmodium spp.), Rhodnius and Schistosoma digest haemoglobin and release high quantities of free...
aegypti, DUOX is involved in the control of the gut indigenous microbiota. Rhodnius prolixus has calcium activated DUOX, which is involved in eggshell hardening...
multiple subtypes of the OctαR receptor. For example, the kissing bug (Rhodnius prolixus) has Octα1-R, Octα2R. OctβR (beta-adrenergic-like), are structurally...
that neurosecretory cells in the brain of the South American kissing bug, Rhodnius prolixus, secrete a crucial hormone that triggers the prothoracic gland...
the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus and of the haematophagous insect Rhodnius prolixus, which is a vector of chagas disease. Currently, pinoresinol is...
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...
Meneguetti, DU; Soares, EB; Campaner, M; et al. (2014). "First report of Rhodnius montene-grensis (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) infection by Trypanosoma...
Coura, J. R. (2004). "Fungal flora of the digestive tract of Rhodnius prolixus, Rhodnius neglectus, Diptelanogaster maximus and Panstrongylus megistus...
species of the subfamily, but otherwise it resembles the better-known Rhodnius prolixus. Ryckman, Raymond E.; Ryckman, Albert E. (1967). "Epizootiology...
ovaries. They have also been described in spider embryos, earwig ovaries, Rhodnius, Calpodes, earthworms, retroviral-infected cells, mast cells, B-lymphocytes...
subfamily Triatominae. The major vectors are species in the genera Triatoma, Rhodnius, and Panstrongylus. Chikungunya – Vectors: Aedes mosquitoes Human ewingii...
symbionts do to adult mosquitoes. The first example of this technique used Rhodnius prolixus which is associated with the symbiont Rhodococcus rhodnii. R....
to increase cAMP in the abdominal epidermis of the blood-sucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus. Rachinsky reported that synephrine was equipotent with octopamine...
undergraduate degree, followed by a PhD), his research involved insects such as Rhodnius prolixus and later, Drosophila melanogaster. At Cambridge he was a fellow...
Northern Peru, with Emphasis on the Ecology and Infection by Trypanosomes of Rhodnius ecuadoriensis (Triatominae)". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 97 (2):...
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