Sentences with phrase «of tsetse»

Predicting the distribution of tsetse flies in west Africa using temporal Fourier processed meteorological satellite data

Although cases of human infection have declined recently these parasites still represent a major societal burden across 36 sub-Saharan countries that are within range of the tsetse fly vector.

The reproductive biology of the tsetse fly is particularly unconventional: unlike most insects that lay eggs, it gives birth to live young that have developed to a large size by feeding on specialised glands in the mother.

The team, composed of 146 scientists from 78 research institutes across 18 countries, analysed the genome of the tsetse fly and its 12,000 genes.

«Our study will accelerate research aimed at exploiting the unusual biology of the tsetse fly.

Genome Sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Trypanosomiasis.

«Though human African trypanosomiasis affects thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa, the absence of a genome - wide map of tsetse biology was a major hindrance for identifying vulnerabilities,» says Dr Serap Aksoy, co-senior author from the University of Yale.

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

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This study lays out a list of parts responsible for the key processes and opens new doors to design prevention strategies to reduce the number of deaths and illnesses associated with human African trypanosomiasis and other diseases spread by the tsetse fly.

They also reexamined the occurrence of bicoid and discovered that the gene has been repeatedly lost or substantially altered in certain fruit flies and tsetse flies during evolution.

The project, which has taken 10 years to complete, will provide the tsetse research community with a free - to - access resource that will accelerate the development of improved tsetse - control strategies in this neglected area of research.

Trypanosomes are parasites of the mammalian bloodstream that rely on biting flies — like the tsetse fly — for transmission.

This prolongs host survival and thereby potentiates the transmission of the parasite to the tsetse fly, which ensures it can complete its life cycle.»

Also of note has been the identification of the patches of land to which tsetse flies are increasingly being confined in the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe.

Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and sleeping sickness in people (fatal when not properly treated).

We have undertaken an expressed sequence tag (EST) project on the adult tsetse midgut, the major organ system for establishment and early development of trypanosomes.

He meets the father (Falk) of his son - in - law - to - be, who tells hilarious dinner - table stories about the horrors of life in the Guatemalan bush country, where tsetse flies the size of eagles carry off small children; this fellow also mumbles something about working for the government, hoodwinking Kornpett into accompanying him on an ostensible mission against fiscal guerrillas hiding out on a Caribbean isle called Tijada.

A second alternative - energy system, called Tsetse (named after the mythological African goddess of lightning), uses massive lightning - containment capacitors composed of dielectric glass and conductive metals from waste.

Yes, (part of) the current problems in pollution control, disease, starvation increases, and deaths (from malaria, dengue fever, tsetse fly, etc.) ARE due to the «climate scientists» making undue and improper predictions based on their chosen theory of CO2 = Bad For The World, We Must Control It.