A5089390934- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Trypanosoma species research and implications
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
International Atomic Energy Agency
2018
Tsetse flies are vectors of African trypanosomes, protozoan parasites that cause sleeping sickness (or human trypanosomosis) in humans and nagana animal livestock. In addition to four symbiotic bacteria Wigglesworthia glossinidia, Sodalis glossinidius, Wolbachia, Spiroplasma one pathogen, the salivary gland hypertrophy virus (SGHV), have been reported different tsetse species. We evaluated prevalence coinfection dynamics between SGHV species (Glossina palpalis gambiensis, G. tachinoides,...
Abstract Members of the true fruit flies (family Tephritidae) are among most serious agricultural pests worldwide, whose control and management demands large costly international efforts. The need for cost-effective environmentally-friendly integrated pest (IPM) has led to development implementation autocidal strategies. Autocidal approaches include widely used sterile insect technique (SIT) incompatible (IIT). IIT relies on maternally transmitted bacteria (namely Wolbachia ), cause a...