Trends in taxonomy of Chagas disease vectors (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): from Linnaean to integrative taxonomy

KCC Alevi, J de Oliveira, D da Silva Rocha, C Galvão - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma
cruzi and transmitted mainly by members of the subfamily Triatominae. There are currently …

The ecology and natural history of wild Triatominae in the Americas

F Abad-Franch, R Gurgel-Gonçalves - Triatominae-The Biology of Chagas …, 2021 - Springer
Triatomine bugs, the vectors of Chagas disease, feed primarily on vertebrate blood and live
in close association with their hosts. Here we provide an updated synthesis of current …

Phylogenomics for Chagas Disease Vectors of the Rhodnius Genus (Hemiptera, Triatominae): What We Learn From Mito-Nuclear Conflicts and Recommendations

J Filée, M Merle, H Bastide, F Mougel… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We provide in this study a very large DNA dataset on Rhodnius species including 36
samples representing 16 valid species of the three Rhodnius groups, pictipes, prolixus and …

TriatoDex, an electronic identification key to the Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), vectors of Chagas disease: Development, description, and performance

R Gurgel-Goncalves, F Abad-Franch, MR de Almeida… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Correct identification of triatomine bugs is crucial for Chagas disease surveillance, yet
available taxonomic keys are outdated, incomplete, or both. Here we present TriatoDex, an …

Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

F Abad-Franch, FA Monteiro, MG Pavan, JS Patterson… - Parasites & vectors, 2021 - Springer
Background Triatomine bugs, the vectors of Chagas disease, associate with vertebrate hosts
in highly diverse ecotopes. It has been proposed that occupation of new microhabitats may …

Chagas disease vectors identification using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

S Depickere, AG Ravelo-Garcia, F Lardeux - Chemometrics and Intelligent …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is widespread in Latin
America, where the disease remains one of the major public health problems. This condition …

Rhodnius spp. infestation in palm trees and natural infection by Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli in periurban and rural areas of state of the Rondônia, in …

GR Julião, IF Pimentel, AK de França, LHS Gil… - Acta Tropica, 2021 - Elsevier
The state of Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon is prone to diseases transmitted by insect
vectors because of the environmental and population changes resulting from large …

Speciation processes in Triatominae

MG Pavan, C Lazoski, FA Monteiro - Triatominae-the biology of Chagas …, 2021 - Springer
This chapter intends to familiarize the reader with the basic concepts regarding speciation in
insects, through the description and exemplification of the three most common speciation …

[HTML][HTML]  Geometric morphometry of the Rhodniusprolixus complex (Hemiptera, Triatominae): patterns of intraspecific and interspecific allometry and their taxonomic …

ACPC Alvarez, C Dale, C Galvão - ZooKeys, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract In the subfamily Triatominae, the genus Rhodnius is one of the most studied, not
only because of its epidemiological importance, but also because of the difficulty in …

[HTML][HTML] Intraspecific and interspecific phenotypic differences confirm the absence of cryptic speciation in Triatoma sordida (Hemiptera, Triatominae)

ACC Garcia, J de Oliveira, DC Cristal… - The American journal …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Triatoma sordida is an endemic Chagas disease vector in South America, distributed in
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Chromosomal, molecular, isoenzymatic, and …