Many arthropod species have adopted vertebrate blood as their main food source. Blood is
rich in nutrients and, except for the presence of parasites, sterile. However, this food source …

Abstract Although kissing bugs (Triatominae: Reduviidae) are perhaps best known as
vectors of Chagas disease, they are important experimental models in studies of insect …

Os triatomíneos são insetos hematófagos de grande importância médica, pois são os
responsáveis pela transmissão do Trypanosoma cruzi, o agente etiológico da doença de …

Temperature is one of the most important factors affecting the life of insects [1]. For instance,
high temperatures can have deleterious effects on insects' physiology. Therefore, many of …

Olfactory learning in blood-feeding insects, such as mosquitoes, could play an important role
in host preference and disease transmission. However, standardised protocols allowing …

The use of heat as a cue for the orientation of haematophagous insects towards hot-blooded
hosts has been acknowledged for many decades. In mosquitoes, thermoreception has been …

The biology of disease vector arthropods is shaped by the nature of their interactions with
the hosts, which are used as their source of a blood meal, the pathogens acquired in the …

Cryptochrome (CRY) is a short-wavelength light-sensitive photoreceptor expressed in a
subset of circadian neurons and eyes in Drosophila that regulates light-evoked circadian …

Highlights•Many olfactory cues affect innate and experienced behaviors throughout the
mosquito life cycle.•Larval environment odors are ecologically relevant to both larvae and …

Many biological processes and behaviors in mosquitoes display rhythmic patterns, allowing
for fine tuning to cyclic environmental conditions. In mosquitoes, vector-host interactions are …