Highlights•Hemiptera share anatomical traits for extraoral digestion despite disparate
diets.•Extraoral digestive fluid composition is influenced by feeding mode and diet …

Triatomines are blood-feeding insects that prey on vertebrate hosts. Their saliva is largely
responsible for their feeding success. The triatomine salivary content has been studied over …

Salivary gland transcriptome analysis of the Asiatic Triatoma rubrofasciata was performed by
high-throughput RNA sequencing. This analysis showed that the majority of reads …

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a notorious agricultural pest of many crops worldwide.
Although it is thought that B. tabaci secretes saliva into the host plant to counter plant …

Las defensinas son una familia de péptidos antimicrobianos que forman parte de la
respuesta inmunológica de los insectos. En la subfamilia Triatominae (Hemiptera …