Study of the salivary glands in Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): Their Color and Application to the Chagas Disease Vector Evolution
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2017-01-01
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De Oliveira, Jader [UNESP]
Ravazi, Amanda [UNESP]
Dos Santos Souza, Eder [UNESP]
Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo
Galvão, Cleber
Da Rosa, João Aristeu [UNESP]
Alevi, Kaio Cesar Chaboli [UNESP]
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Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by feces of a triatomine that has the habit of defecating during blood feeding. The salivary glands of triatomines are important to hematophagy because their saliva is rich in anticoagulant and hemolytic proteins. The salivary glands of some Rhodnius species analyzed are reddish due to the presence of nitrophorins (antihemostatic activity). The present study aimed to analyze the color pattern of the salivary glands of 67 triatomine species to evaluate whether the presence of nitrophorins is a synapomorphy of Rhodnius or the tribe Rhodniini, or if it is shared with triatomines of the tribes Triatomini and Cavernicolini. Since only the species of the tribe Rhoniini present red glands, it is admitted that the presence of nitrophorin proteins is a synapomorphy of the tribe Rhodniini and that this tribe has derived more recently when compared with Triatomini and Cavernicolini.
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, v. 97, n. 3, p. 771-773, 2017.