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Study of the Salivary Glands in Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): Their Color and Application to the Chagas Disease Vector Evolution

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Author(s):
de Oliveira, Jader [1] ; Ravazi, Amanda [2, 3] ; Souza, Eder dos Santos [1] ; Figueiredo Moreira, Felipe Ferraz [4, 5] ; Galvao, Cleber [6, 7] ; da Rosa, Joao Aristeu [1] ; Chaboli Alevi, Kaio Cesar [2, 3]
Total Authors: 7
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho FC, Fac Ciencias Farmaceut, Lab Parasitol, Dept Ciencias Biol, Araraquara - Brazil
[2] Univ Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho IB, Inst Biociencias Letras & Ciencias Exatas, Lab Biol Celular, Sao Jose Do Rio Preto - Brazil
[3] Univ Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho IB, Lab Biol Celular, Dept Biol, Inst Biociencias Letras & Ciencias Exatas, Sao Jose Do Rio Preto - Brazil
[4] Inst Oswaldo Cruz LABE IOC FIOCRUZ, Lab Biodiversidade Entomol, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
[5] Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Lab Biodiversidade Entomol, LBE IOC FIOCRUZ, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
[6] Inst Oswaldo Cruz LNIRTT IOC FIOCRUZ, Lab Nacl & Int Referencia Taxonomia Triatomineos, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
[7] Inst Oswaldo Cruz, Lab Nacl & Int Referencia Taxonomia Triatomineos, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 7
Document type: Journal article
Source: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; v. 97, n. 3, p. 771-773, 2017.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by feces of a triatomine that has the habit of defecating during blood feeding. The salivary glands of triatomines are important to hematophagy because their saliva is rich in anticoagulant and hemolytic proteins. The salivary glands of some Rhodnius species analyzed are reddish due to the presence of nitrophorins (antihemostatic activity). The present study aimed to analyze the color pattern of the salivary glands of 67 triatomine species to evaluate whether the presence of nitrophorins is a synapomorphy of Rhodnius or the tribe Rhodniini, or if it is shared with triatomines of the tribes Triatomini and Cavernicolini. Since only the species of the tribe Rhoniini present red glands, it is admitted that the presence of nitrophorin proteins is a synapomorphy of the tribe Rhodniini and that this tribe has derived more recently when compared with Triatomini and Cavernicolini. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/11372-1 - Cytotaxonomy and chromosomal evolution of complex prolixus (Hemiptera, Triatominae)
Grantee:Amanda Ravazi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
FAPESP's process: 13/08826-5 - Morphological study, morphometric and molecular species of the Triatoma brasiliensis (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae)
Grantee:Jader de Oliveira
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
FAPESP's process: 13/19764-0 - Cytotaxonomy and chromosomal evolution in Triatominae subfamily
Grantee:Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate