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Blood meal analysis of culicoides (Diptera: ceratopogonidae) in central Tunisia.
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- A literature review on the role of Culicoides in the transmission of avian blood parasites in Europe.Parasites & vectors · 2025Review
- Host blood meal analysis of Culicoides oxystoma (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Tunisia.Parasitology research · 2025Article
- Molecular detection of parasites and host preference in wild-caught Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Chiang Mai and Nakhon Si Thammarat Provinces, Thailand.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
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- Morphological and molecular differentiation between Culicoides oxystoma and Culicoides kingi (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Tunisia.Parasites & vectors · 2021Article
- Profiling of RNA Viruses in Biting Midges (mSphere · 2021Article
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- Significant reduction in abundance of peridomestic mosquitoes (Culicidae) and Culicoides midges (Ceratopogonidae) after chemical intervention in western São Paulo, Brazil.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Culicoides species composition and molecular identification of host blood meals at two zoos in the UK.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Updating the global occurrence of Culicoides imicola, a vector for emerging viral diseases.Scientific data · 2019Article
- Culicoides paolae and C. circumscriptus as potential vectors of avian haemosporidians in an arid ecosystem.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- Association between host species choice and morphological characters of main sensory structures ofPeerJ · 2017Article
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Abstract
To evaluate the host preferences of Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Central Tunisia, we identified the source of blood meals of field collected specimens by sequencing of the cytochrome b (cyt b) mitochondrial locus and Prepronociceptine single copy nuclear gene. The study includes the most common and abundant livestock associated species of biting midges in Tunisia: C. imicola, C. jumineri, C. newsteadi, C. paolae, C. cataneii, C. circumscriptus, C. kingi, C. pseudojumineri, C. submaritimus, C. langeroni, C. jumineri var and some unidentified C. species. Analysis of cyt b PCR products from 182 field collected blood-engorged females' midges revealed that 92% of them fed solely on mammalian species, 1.6% on birds, 2.4% on insects and 0.8% on reptiles. The blast results identified the blood origin of biting midges to the species level with exact or nearly exact matches (≥98%). The results confirm the presence of several Culicoides species, including proven vectors in Central Tunisia. Blood meal analyses show that these species will indeed feed on bigger mammals, thereby highlighting the risk that these viruses will be able to spread in Tunisia.
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