ReviewAnnual review of entomology2015
Adenotrophic viviparity in tsetse flies: potential for population control and as an insect model for lactation.
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- The comprehensive epidemiological status of human African trypanosomiasis in Nigeria: meta-analysis and systematic review of the full story (1962-2022).Parasitology research · 2024Pooled it
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- PGRP-LA regulates peritrophic matrix synthesis and influences trypanosome infection outcomes in tsetse flies.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- The first RNA viruses detected in a trypanosome.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Endosymbiont hijacking of acylcarnitines regulates insect vector fecundity by suppressing the viability of stored sperm.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- tRNA expression and modifications as critical components in the biology of blood-feeding arthropods.Current opinion in insect science · 2025Review
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- Daily activity rhythms, sleep and pregnancy are fundamentally related in the Pacific beetle mimic cockroach, Diploptera punctata.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Viviparity and obligate blood feeding: tsetse flies as a unique research system to study climate change.Current opinion in insect science · 2025Review
- Spiroplasma endosymbiont reduction of host lipid synthesis and Stomoxyn-like peptide contribute to trypanosome resistance in the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- How do host age and nutrition affect density regulation of obligate versus facultative bacterial symbionts? Insights from the tsetse fly.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Symbiotic bacteria associated with different species ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Regional specialization, polyploidy, and seminal fluid transcripts in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse fly.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The Development and Expansion of in vivo Germline Editing Technologies in Arthropods: Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo (ReMOT Control) and Beyond.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
- Pathogen-Mediated Alterations of Insect Chemical Communication: From Pheromones to Behavior.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Live-bearing cockroach genome reveals convergent evolutionary mechanisms linked to viviparity in insects and beyond.iScience · 2023Article
- No evidence for direct thermal carryover effects on starvation tolerance in the obligate blood-feeder,Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Sleep: An Essential and Understudied Process in the Biology of Blood-Feeding Arthropods.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.), vectors of African trypanosomes, are distinguished by their specialized reproductive biology, defined by adenotrophic viviparity (maternal nourishment of progeny by glandular secretions followed by live birth). This trait has evolved infrequently among insects and requires unique reproductive mechanisms. A key event in Glossina reproduction involves the transition between periods of lactation and nonlactation (dry periods). Increased lipolysis, nutrient transfer to the milk gland, and milk-specific protein production characterize lactation, which terminates at the birth of the progeny and is followed by a period of involution. The dry stage coincides with embryogenesis of the progeny, during which lipid reserves accumulate in preparation for the next round of lactation. The obligate bacterial symbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidia is critical to tsetse reproduction and likely provides B vitamins required for metabolic processes underlying lactation and/or progeny development. Here we describe findings that utilized transcriptomics, physiological assays, and RNA interference-based functional analysis to understand different components of adenotrophic viviparity in tsetse flies.
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