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Tsetse fly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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There are 22 different species of tsetse fly, and they live only in Africa. These flies are slightly larger than a horsefly. They breed along rivers and streams. They are active during the day and feed exclusively on blood.
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Programmes and information to assist in the planning and implementation of tsetse control operations. ... Decision tools: interactive computer programmes to help in the planning of community-based operations using bait technologies (Tsetse Plan), or large-scale operations using any control method (Tsetse Muse).
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Welcome, to The TSETSE Gallery ... We would like to Welcome you to The TSETSE Gallery's online presence. We consider our web site to be an extension of our continuing efforts to use art as a tool to educate the community, both educationally and culturally.
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The tsetse fly (Glossina sp, pictured left) is found only in Africa and carries trypanosomes (the disease agents causing human sleeping sickness and animal trypanosomosis). ... There are two basic ways to combat the disease: remove the tsetse fly vector, or treat the infected animal with drugs. Both methods have...
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Africa between 15 N and 20 S Female tsetse produce at most nine larvae. Tsetse flies gamma radiation. It depends unquestionably have the lowest reproduction potential of any latitudes and causes widespread on rearing large numbers of insect, and this fact makes them a good target for SIT.
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Proteins containing a glutamic acid-proline (EP) repeat epitope were immunologically detected in midguts from eight species of Glossina (tsetse flies). ... The presence of EP proteins in a wide variety of tsetse, their constitutive expression in adult fat body and midguts and their upregulation after immunogen challenge...
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In tsetse both sexes feed exclusively on the blood of vertebrates for a few minutes every 2-3 days. ... Mixtures of these plant volatiles also attracted tsetse in the wind tunnel. These findings show that tsetse flies have conserved a strong sensitivity to volatile secondary products of plants, underlining the fundamental...
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tsetse fly ... Any of a number of blood-feeding African flies of the genus Glossina, some of which transmit the disease nagana to cattle and sleeping sickness to human beings. Tsetse flies may grow up to 1.5 cm/0.6 in long. ... There are 22 species of tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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