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Tracking zoonotic pathogens using blood-sucking flies as 'flying syringes'
About 60% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are of zoonotic origin. Their increasing number requires the development of new methods for early detection and monitoring of infectious agents in wildlife. Here, we investigated whether blood meals from hematophagous flies could be used to identify the infectious agents circulating in wild vertebrates. To this aim, 1230 blood-engorged flies w...
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Mating signals that increase attractiveness of males to females can also increase conspicuousness of the signaler to predators and parasites. We investigated the acoustic preference of species of blood-sucking flies of the genus Corethrella (Diptera: Corethrellidae), which eavesdrop on the sexual advertisement signals of túngara frogs (Physalaemus pustulosus). Male frogs of this species faculta...
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Some avian species incorporate aromatic plants to their nests. The "nest protection hypothesis", which posits that volatile secondary compounds contained in these plants may have antiparasite properties, has not received full support. All previous tests of this hypothesis have only considered effects on nest-dwelling ectoparasites, but not on blood-sucking flies. The "drug hypothesis" posits th...
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B. C. DAS, m.sc. (f/orn the Laboratory of the Imperial Serologist and Chemical Examiner to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) mi.. * 'ie material.?Mosquitoes and bed bugs were ^ed on subjects of known blood groups an squashed on chemically pure filter-paper. stains so obtained were dried. _ The insects were bred from eggs in the Entom logical Department of the Schoo...
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Introduction There is considerable variation in the extent of the association between a blood sucking insect and its host. Blood sucking Diptera such as mosquitoes are temporary ectoparasites, only visiting the host for long enough to obtain a blood meal. Temporary ectoparasites such as tsetse flies, tabanids and mosquitoes tend to take relatively large blood meals, thus limiting the danger fro...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1940
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/146447c0