Glossina morsitans
Host seeking efficiency can explain population dynamics of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans in response to host density decline
... Variation in host density may be an important driver of heterogeneity in tsetse population dynamics. Population declines in savanna tsetse, including Glossina morsitans, have been observed at the borders of ...
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Variations in the Peritrophic Matrix Composition of Heparan Sulphate from the Tsetse Fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans
... species, Glossina morsitans morsitans, is host to the parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, a major cause of African ...with Glossina morsitans morsitans genome analysis, as well as the ...
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Responses of Glossina pallidipes and Glossina morsitans morsitans tsetse flies to analogues of -octalactone and selected blends
... Previous studies have shown that ␦-octalactone is an important component of the tsetse-refractory waterbuck (Kobus defassa) repellent odour blend. In the present study, structure-activity comparison was undertaken to ...
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Expression of chemosensory proteins in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans is related to female host-seeking behaviour
... fly Glossina morsitans mor- sitans, a major vector transmitting nagana in live- ...G. morsitans morsitans CSPs with those of other Diptera showed rapid evo- lution after speciation of ...
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Lack of evidence for sufficiently isolated populations of Glossina morsitans submorsitans on the Adamawa Plateau of Cameroon following geometric morphometric analysis
... in Glossina morsitans morsitans a total of 45 allozymes and five microsatellites were analysed by Krafsur ...compare Glossina morsitans submorsitans populations of different sites of ...
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Characterisations of odorant-binding proteins in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans
... Abstract Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) play an important role in insect olfaction by mediating interactions between odorants and odorant receptors. We report for the first time 20 OBP genes in the tsetse fly ...
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Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of closely related wild and captive tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans) populations
... 2000. Glossina morsitans centralis, which was used in ini- tial investigations to examine primer pair combinations, were obtained from the long-term colonies maintained at the International Livestock ...
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Properties Of A Midgut Trypanolysin From The Tsetse Fly, Glossina Morsitans Morsitans
... m. morsitans was studied in ...with Glossina longipennis, followed by Glossina pallidipes, Glossina morsitans centralis, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes and ...
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Sublethal Effects of Insecticides on Feeding Behaviour of Testse Flies Glossina Pallidipes Austen and Glossina Morsitans Morsitans (Westwood) (Diptera: Glossinidae)
... Results have also demonstrated no significant effect of the two insecticides on the feeding of both G. pallidipes and G. m. morsitans. Exposure to dieldrin at low doses has been reported to inhibit feeding in ...
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An Investigation into the Protein Composition of the Teneral Glossina morsitans morsitans Peritrophic Matrix.
... phins thought to have a full PCD are now categorized as having partial domains. Partial domains may have come about through multiple duplication events or proteolytic degradation of full length proteins whilst retaining ...
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Expression profiling of Trypanosoma congolense genes during development in the tsetse fly vector Glossina morsitans morsitans
... Results: Consistent with current knowledge, genes coding several variant surface glycoproteins (including metacyclic specific VSGs), and the surface coat protein, congolense epimastigote specific protein, were ...
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Physiology of an ATP receptor in labellar sensilla of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans Westw (Diptera: Glossinidae)
... Arguing in favour of the conclusion that the ATP receptor investigated in this study mediates the behavioural responses of the animal to ATP solutions are the following four points of si[r] ...
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Identification and characterisation of a set of differentially expressed genes from Glossina morsitans morsitans refractory to a trypanosome infection
... of Glossina with varied environmental requirements leading to the focal nature of the distribution of the vector across the tsetse belt of ...the Morsitans group are the vectors of ...
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Optimum land cover products for use in a Glossina-morsitans habitat model of Kenya
... Tsetse flies require specific types of land cover generally referred to as woody vegetation [9,13,14,54-56]. How- ever, each subspecies of tsetse fly inhabits distinctive eco- systems with different types of woody land ...
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Fluid secretion by the malpighian tubules of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans: the effects of ouabain, ethacrynic acid and amiloride
... As we have seen, the secretion of fluid by the Malpighian tubules of Glossina is inhibited by ethacrynic acid, and since this compound causes the complete inhibition of fluid secretion, [r] ...
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An insight into the sialome of Glossina morsitans morsitans.
... Endonucleases Two putative proteins named Tsal 1 and Tsal 2 (this latter with two forms, A and B) were described in a previous sialotranscriptome of G. m. mor- sitans [27,28]. Not surprisingly, these genes were highly ...
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Determination of the optimal mating age of colonised Glossina brevipalpis and Glossina austeni using walk in field cages in South Africa
... An entirely different release strategy was used in the SIT trial against Glossina morsitans morsitans in the Tanga area, Tanzania, in the 1970’s. Here sterile males were released as pupae from fixed ...
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Examining the tsetse teneral phenomenon and permissiveness to trypanosome infection
... eral Glossina morsitans morsitans are inactive during the first 2 days after emergence and rest under shrubs instead of engaging in host and mate-seeking flights (Jackson, ...G.m. morsitans ...
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Post Eclosion Age Predicts the Prevalence of Midgut Trypanosome Infections in Glossina
... (Glossina morsitans morsitans and Glossina palpalis palpalis) infected with two salivarian trypanosome species, Trypanosoma (Trypanozoon) brucei brucei and Trypanosoma (Nannomonas) congolense ...
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The relative contributions of developmental plasticity and adult acclimation to physiological variation in the tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes (Diptera, Glossinidae)
... Increases in metabolic rate of the G. pallidipes adults with adult exposure to low temperature seems to be typical of this group of tsetse flies because it has also been found in Glossina morsitans. ...
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