An insight into the transcriptome of the digestive tract of the bloodsucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus.

• Main Authors: José M C Ribeiro (Author), Fernando A Genta (Author), Marcos H F Sorgine (Author), Raquel Logullo (Author), Rafael D Mesquita (Author), Gabriela O Paiva-Silva (Author), David Majerowicz (Author), Marcelo Medeiros (Author), Leonardo Koerich (Author), Walter R Terra (Author), Clélia Ferreira (Author), André C Pimentel (Author), Paulo M Bisch (Author), Daniel C Leite (Author), Michelle M P Diniz (Author), João Lídio da S G V Junior (Author), Manuela L Da Silva (Author), Ricardo N Araujo (Author), Ana Caroline P Gandara (Author), Sébastien Brosson (Author), Didier Salmon (Author), Sabrina Bousbata (Author), Natalia González-Caballero (Author), Ariel Mariano Silber (Author), Michele Alves-Bezerra (Author), Katia C Gondim (Author), Mário Alberto C Silva-Neto (Author), Georgia C Atella (Author), Helena Araujo (Author), Felipe A Dias (Author), Carla Polycarpo (Author), Raquel J Vionette-Amaral (Author), Patrícia Fampa (Author), Ana Claudia A Melo (Author), Aparecida S Tanaka (Author), Carsten Balczun (Author), José Henrique M Oliveira (Author), Renata L S Gonçalves (Author), Cristiano Lazoski (Author), Rolando Rivera-Pomar (Author), Luis Diambra (Author), Günter A Schaub (Author), Elói S Garcia (Author), Patrícia Azambuja (Author), Glória R C Braz (Author), Pedro L Oliveira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

The bloodsucking hemipteran Rhodnius prolixus is a vector of Chagas' disease, which affects 7-8 million people today in Latin America. In contrast to other hematophagous insects, the triatomine gut is compartmentalized into three segments that perform different functions during blood digestion....