Tsetse flies are bloodthirsty. Natives of sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies can transmit the microbe Trypanosoma when they take a blood meal. That’s the protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness ...
Always hungry for blood, the tsetse fly packs a painful bite. Worse yet, its attack can leave a hapless victim infected with a parasitic disease that kills thousands of people — and millions of ...
Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...
FILE - In this June 1, 2002 file photo dead tsetse flies on display in a laboratory run by the International Livestock Research Institute in Ghibe Valley, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In the southern ...
Mammalian moms aren’t the only ones to deliver babies and feed them milk. Tsetse flies, the insects best known for transmitting sleeping sickness, do it too. A researcher at the University of ...
The African tsetse fly is a bloodsucking fly that can transmit diseases in humans and animals. Now, researchers have discovered exactly how they drink your blood. The flies have sharp teeth and rasps ...
Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals. The ...
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