Rhodnius prolixus is the principal triatomine vector of the Chagas parasite due to both its sylvatic and domestic populations in northern South America as well as to its exclusively domestic populations in Central America. It has a wide range of ecotopes, mainly savanna and foothills with an altitude of between 500 and 1,500 metres (1,640 and 4,921 ft) above sea level and temperatures of 16 to 28 °C (61 to 82 °F). Sylvatic R. prolixus, as virtually all Rhodnius spp., is primarily associated with palm tree habitats and has a wide range of hosts including birds, rodents, marsupials, sloths, and reptiles.
The insect was used by Sir Vincent Wigglesworth for the detection of insect hormones. It has been implicated in the transmission of transposons between it and some of its vertebrate hosts, squirrel monkeys and opossums.[1]
Rhodnius prolixus is also known as the kissing bug (like other triatomine bugs) because it tends to feed on the area around victims' mouths.[2]
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Rhodniusprolixus is the principal triatomine vector of the Chagas parasite due to both its sylvatic and domestic populations in northern South America...
well adapted to living with humans (such as Triatoma infestans and Rhodniusprolixus) are considered important vectors. Also, proteins released from their...
saliva of blood-feeding insects. Saliva of the blood-sucking bug Rhodniusprolixus contains at least seven homologous nitrophorins, designated NP1 to...
hematophagous animals cannot survive on any other food. Examples include Rhodniusprolixus, a South American assassin bug, and Cimex lectularius, the human bed...
triatomine bugs that inhabit human dwellings, namely Triatoma infestans, Rhodniusprolixus, Triatoma dimidiata and Panstrongylus megistus. These insects are...
neurosecretory cells in the brain of the South American kissing bug, Rhodniusprolixus, secrete a crucial hormone that triggers the prothoracic gland to...
strategies as highly domesticated species like Triatoma infestans and Rhodniusprolixus. This is also the case for other sylvatic triatomine species (Triatominae)...
Sanguisuga Texana Usinger and Triatoma Gerstaeckeri (Stal) Compared with RhodniusProlixus (Stal) (Hemiptera: Triatominae)." Journal of Medical Entomology 7...
milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus and of the haematophagous insect Rhodniusprolixus, which is a vector of chagas disease. Currently, pinoresinol is isolated...
eggs of Rhodniusprolixus Stahl. Proc. R. Soc. B 133, 407–417. The formation and structure of the chorion of the egg in hemipteran Rhodniusprolixus. Q. J...
multiple subtypes of the OctαR receptor. For example, the kissing bug (Rhodniusprolixus) has Octα1-R, Octα2R. OctβR (beta-adrenergic-like), are structurally...
DUOX is involved in the control of the gut indigenous microbiota. Rhodniusprolixus has calcium activated DUOX, which is involved in eggshell hardening...
increase cAMP in the abdominal epidermis of the blood-sucking bug, Rhodniusprolixus. Rachinsky reported that synephrine was equipotent with octopamine...
kissing bug Rhodniusprolixus during digestion of the blood meal also have a unique shape, but are composed of hemozoin. Hz formation in R. prolixus midgut...
degree, followed by a PhD), his research involved insects such as Rhodniusprolixus and later, Drosophila melanogaster. At Cambridge he was a fellow of...
2012-02-26. Wigglesworth, V.B. (1934). "The physiology of ecdysis in Rhodniusprolixus (Hemiptera). II Factors controlling moulting and metamorphosis". Q...
Miniature Inverted-Repeat Transposable Elements in Bombyx mori and Rhodniusprolixus". Genome Biology and Evolution. 5 (11): 2020–31. doi:10.1093/gbe/evt153...
Orthoptera, and Lepidoptera as well as in the species Rhodniusprolixus and the boll weevil. In R. prolixus, rhythmic peristaltic contractions of the oviduct...
etiological agent of Chagas disease, is virulent to its triatomine vector Rhodniusprolixus in a temperature-dependent manner". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases...
Coura, J. R. (2004). "Fungal flora of the digestive tract of Rhodniusprolixus, Rhodnius neglectus, Diptelanogaster maximus and Panstrongylus megistus...
Five Essential Oils and Seven Monoterpenes on First-Instar Nymphs of Rhodniusprolixus". Journal of Medical Entomology. 46 (3): 511–515. doi:10.1603/033...
crustaceans, scorpions, various kinds of worms, and jellyfish. Adult Rhodniusprolixus – hematophagous on vertebrates – secrete lipocalins into the wound...
properties. It has been discovered in the salivary pump of assassin bugs (Rhodniusprolixus), tsetse flies, and honey bees, and in the resistance providing mechanism...
Leucophaea maderae, L. migratoria, and spermathecae in L. migratoria and Rhodniusprolixus. Another function of proctolin is that it speeds up heart rate in...
mosquitos, e.g. Anopheles gambiae; the tsetse fly; and the Chagas vector, Rhodniusprolixus Stal. Infection of these organisms by FHV has been demonstrated to...
species of the subfamily, but otherwise it resembles the better-known Rhodniusprolixus. Ryckman, Raymond E.; Ryckman, Albert E. (1967). "Epizootiology of...
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