Blood sucking
Behavioural and physiological state dependency of host seeking in the blood sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus
... by blood-sucking insects depends on their ability to find and feed from a potential host and, then, to begin taking a blood meal from ...the blood nutrients that are necessary for their growth ...
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Learning the way to blood: first evidence of dual olfactory conditioning in a blood sucking insect, Rhodnius prolixus II Aversive learning
... It is worth noting, however, that for blood-sucking insects a host plays the double role of prey and predator (Lazzari, 2009). They take food from their host but, in doing so, expose themselves to the ...
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Learning the way to blood: first evidence of dual olfactory conditioning in a blood sucking insect, Rhodnius prolixus I Appetitive learning
... of blood-sucking bugs to learn and, more generally, only few experimental data are available on the cognitive abilities of haematophagous insects, not all of them being conclusive (Alonso et ...
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Bitter stimuli modulate the feeding decision of a blood sucking insect via two sensory inputs
... The gustatory system of animals is involved in food quality assessment and controls the feeding decision of an individual confronted with a potential alimentary source. Triatomines are haematophagous insects that feed on ...
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The Physiology Of Excretion In A Blood Sucking Insect, Rhodnius Prolixus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)
... Physiology of Excretion in a Blood-sucking Insect, Rhodnius prolixus 421 COMPOSITION OF THE URATIC SPHERES AND THE FORM IN WHICH URIC ACID IS EXCRETED.. From a glance at Fig.[r] ...
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The salivary apyrase of the blood sucking sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi belongs to the novel Cimex family of apyrases
... GTPase/CD39 family, which can be grouped in the actin/heat shock 70/sugar kinase superfamily (Smith and Kirley, 1999). However, the salivary apyrase of the mosquito Aedes aegypti belongs to the 5′-nucleotidase gene ...
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Vector borne transmission of Besnoitia besnoiti by blood sucking and secretophagous flies: epidemiological and clinicopathological implications
... by blood-sucking dipterans (tabanid horse flies, stable flies), although it is also possible iatrogenically (with intra- or hypodermic needles) and most likely through close contact between animals ...
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A Fast Test System to Evaluate the Physical Protection Potential of Textiles against Blood Sucking Insects
... DOI: 10.4236/jtst.2018.43005 83 Journal of Textile Science and Technology (compare Table 1(b)). A 2.5 mm thick polyester spacer fabric containing a po- lyurethane laminar membrane used for breathable outdoor clothing ...
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Neuroendocrine control of ionic homeostasis in blood sucking insects
... the blood-sucking triatomid bug Rhodnius prolixus that stimulates Malpighian tubule secretion and hence the rapid diuresis that follows a blood meal (Maddrell, ...
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Experimental analysis of the blood sucking mechanism of female mosquitoes
... mosquitoes sucking viscous liquid during ...the blood-sucking phenomena of mosquitoes, but these were based on anatomic observation (Patton and Cragg, 1913; Schiemenz, ...
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Negative Pressures Produced in the Pharyngeal Pump of the Blood Sucking Bug, Rhodnius Prolixus
... The fact that bugs are capable of feeding both at reduced pressures and against a pressure gradient suggests that the mode of operation of the pump is anomalous and that the column of li[r] ...
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Olfactory and behavioural responses of the blood sucking bug Triatoma infestans to odours of vertebrate hosts
... Isobutyric acid had a different behavioural effect from nonanal on the triatomines. This acid caused positive odour- mediated anemotaxis by bugs on the servosphere, and the effect generally persisted into the end-control ...
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Excretion in the Blood Sucking Bug, Rhodnius Prolixus Stål
... The profuse diuresis of freshly fed 5th-stage larvae of Rhodnius is caused by the release into the haemolymph of a diuretic hormone from the fused ganglionic mass in the mesothorax, prob[r] ...
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Excretion in the Blood Sucking Bug, Rhodnius Prolixus Ståal
... The possibilities that the different sets of tubules were interacting chemically or were producing a substance that neutralized the diuretic hormone could be discounted, because haemolym[r] ...
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The Control of Meal Size in the Blood Sucking Bug, Rhodnius Prolixus
... The work described here is concerned with the mode of operation of the pharyngeal pump in determining the rate of feeding and the maximum size of the meal.. THE EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL.[r] ...
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Excretion in the Blood Sucking Bug, Rhodnius Prolixus Stål
... The posterior neurosecretory cells in the mass contain a very high concentration of the diuretic activity that is to be found in all parts of the central nervous system.. If, as seems po[r] ...
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Oviposition in the blood sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus is modulated by host odors
... However, no significant differences were found in the number of eggs in the external zones with respect to the internal zones in the case of the control cylinder Mann-Whitney test, p > 0[r] ...
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The Physiology Of Excretion In A Blood Sucking Insect, Rhodnius Prolixus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)
... D, detail of this region of tube, am, ampulla; amp, processes of ampulla cells; Is, lower proximal segment of Malpighian tube; m, muscle fibres; mg, mid-gut; mt, Malpighian tubes; r, rec[r] ...
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The Physiology Of Excretion In A Blood Sucking Insect, Rhodnius Prolixus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)
... A theory of uric acid excretion is put forward according to which potassium or sodium acid urate is secreted in solution in the upper part of the Malpighian tube, and water and base reab[r] ...
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Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors
... and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), which live in or near human dwellings and animal keeping facilities, are usually not tick-infested [2]. Consequently, they are con- sidered to be less important reservoirs of ...
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