Sentences with phrase «phinthong tsetse»

7) How were the Tsetse fly, mosquitos, etc. maintained and separated from the rest of the animals.

And where, by the way, is the tsetse fly?

It has all the requirements: plenty of water, plenty of grazing land, plenty of tsetse flies.

On the road up we passed the government outpost for tsetse fly control, and it was not long before the tsetses had joined us in the cabin and were digging in.

Harry said the sleeping - sickness scare from tsetse fly bites was quite overrated, that the two men who had died, the white hunter and the client, would have been all right if they'd been less stubborn and rushed on back to Maun.

Started controlling the tsetse fly and opening it up for farming.

When they start putting pressure on this country to kill the tsetse it'll be that much more wilderness gone.

Wolbachia appears even more attractive considering its potential application in controlling other insect - borne diseases, such as malaria and the tsetse fly's sleeping sickness.

The nearest bacterial cousin is a symbiotic bacterial species found in the tsetse fly, another blood feeding parasite.

The clade includes some of the most diverse and ecologically important families of flies: tsetse, louse, and bat flies; house flies and relatives; and blow flies, bot flies, flesh flies, and relatives.

This was particularly surprising because deltamethrin in doses of only 0.2 grams per hectare is very effective against the tsetse fly.

The tsetse fly still occupies two million square miles of Africa, barring such areas to pastoralism.

More than 4,000 flies were captured, of which 30 % — mostly tsetse flies, which spread African sleeping sickness — were engorged with blood.

Lead author Paul - Yannick Bitome - Essono, from the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research, France, explains: «We thought the tsetse fly might be a good candidate in our study, as both sexes feed on blood, they are large and easily trapped, present in large numbers in Central Africa, and are opportunistic feeders with no strong preference for a particular host animal, so would feed on a large range of wildlife.»

Tsetse flies are already trapped and killed in a similar way.

Sequencing the genome and assessing gene activity in various tissues in the tsetse fly led to new insights into its biology and the control of parasitic diseases transmitted by this insect.

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

It's a tsetse fly, the carrier of the single - celled parasites that cause sleeping sickness.

Sleeping sickness, caused by two subspecies of the Trypanosoma brucei unicellular parasite and transmitted by tsetse flies, affects an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people annually in Africa.

A new study finds that zebra stripes disrupt light patterns that tsetse flies and horseflies use to find food and water.

Gambian sleeping sickness, or Gambian human African trypanosomiasis, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, carried by tsetse flies in Central and West Africa.

If vector control strategies — using «tsetse targets» coated with insecticide to attract and kill flies — are added, this elimination goal is likely to be achieved within four years when coupled with any screening approach.

Gambian sleeping sickness — a deadly parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies — could be eliminated in six years in key regions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to new research by the University of Warwick.

In 2012, the World Health Organization set two public health goals for the control of Gambian sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly.

«We found that vector control has great potential to reduce transmission and, even if it is less effective at reducing tsetse numbers as in other regions, the full elimination goal could still be achieved by 2030.

Odors can make colors more attractive to tsetse flies, they point out, and zebras in the wild emit very strong smells.

Knowing its genome is essential to understanding the biology of the tsetse.

Earlier research testing tsetse fly preferences for black, white, or striped landing surfaces found that the flies preferred black squares, but the testing didn't explain why.

Zebras don't really encounter tsetse flies out on the open plain, Caro says.

She was curious about whether zebra stripes were attractive to tabanids, a family of insects that includes tsetse flies and horseflies — notorious pests that can transmit illnesses such as sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

Instead of the typical low - involvement insect motherhood of laying many little eggs and leaving them to their luck, a female tsetse fly has just one offspring at a time.

Tsetse flies look like robust house flies but live very differently.

Egri's team picked up on a theory first proposed in 1930 and backed up in 1981, when it was demonstrated that biting tsetse flies were least attracted to striped animal models, when compared to black or white models.

Human African Trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — is a parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and provoked by Trypanosoma protozoans.

«I have loved tsetse flies ever since I first learned about them,» she says.

Into the Wild: Parallel Transcriptomics of the Tsetse - Wigglesworthia Mutualism within Kenyan Populations.

Since then, scientists have used the technique to eradicate the screwworm fly, which causes lesions on livestock, from North and Central America; the tsetse fly, which brings sleeping sickness, from Zanzibar; and the pink bollworm, a pest of cotton, from California.

One trick that has worked against the tsetse fly in Zanzibar and the screw - worm fly in North America is to release billions of sterilised males to swamp the wild population.

HAT is caused by a single - celled parasite, Trypanosoma brucei, that enters the body through the bites of tsetse flies.

They also caught tsetse flies and determined what species they had last fed on.

African tsetse flies are not pleasant to encounter.

The disease, fatal if left untreated, threatens millions of people annually in the 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where the parasite - transmitting tsetse fly lives, according to the World Health Organization.

The team found one family of genes, the tsal genes, that are particularly active in the salivary glands of the tsetse fly.

They also uncovered the photoreceptor gene rh5, the missing link that explains the tsetse fly's attraction to blue / black colours.

Tsetse flies have an armament of salivary molecules that are essential for feeding on blood.

Understanding the tsetse fly and interfering with its ability to transmit the disease is an essential arm of the campaign.

Mining the genome of the disease - transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals.

Its advanced sensory system allows different tsetse fly species to track down potential hosts either through smell or by sight.

«Tsetse flies carry a potentially deadly disease and impose an enormous economic burden on countries that can least afford it by forcing farmers to rear less productive but more trypanosome - resistant cattle.»

The tsetse fly is related to the fruit fly - a favoured subject of biologists for more than 100 years - but its genome is twice as large.