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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Learning influences host choice in tsetse
Biology Letters, Volume 3, No. 2, Year 2007
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Description
A learning capacity for feeding is described in many insect species including vectors of diseases, but has never been reported in tsetse flies (Diptera, Glossinidae), the cyclic vectors of human (sleeping sickness) and animal trypanosomoses in Africa. Repeated feeding on the same host species by a disease vector is likely to increase the within-species disease-transmission risk, but to decrease it between species.An experiment with cattle and reptiles in a stable provides evidence that the species of host selected for the second blood meal in tsetse flies depends on the host encountered for the first blood meal when the between-meal interval is 2 days. This preference disappears when the between-meal interval is extended to 3 days. The energetic advantages of this acquired preference and its importance in trypanosomoses epidemiology are discussed. © 2006 The Royal Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Bouyer, Je´re´my
France, Paris
Cirad
Burkina Faso, Bobo-dioulasso
Centre International de Recherche-développement Sur L'elevage en Zone Subhumide
Pruvot, Mathieu
Burkina Faso, Bobo-dioulasso
Centre International de Recherche-développement Sur L'elevage en Zone Subhumide
Bengaly, Zakaria
Burkina Faso, Bobo-dioulasso
Centre International de Recherche-développement Sur L'elevage en Zone Subhumide
GUERIN, P. M.
Switzerland, Neuchatel
Université de Neuchâtel
Lancelot, Renaud
France, Paris
Cirad
Statistics
Citations: 58
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1098/rsbl.2006.0578
ISSN:
17449561
e-ISSN:
1744957X
Study Approach
Quantitative