Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) (2005) 21, 101-107

Arturo Ramírez Cruz, Benjamín Nogueda Torres, Ricardo Alejandre Aguilar and Imelda Martínez Morales (2005)
Madurez ovárica y proteínas del vitelo en hembras de Triatoma barberi Usinger, 1939 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae, Triatominae) infectadas experimentalmente con Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas,1909) (Protozoa: Trypanosomatidae)
Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 21 (2), 101-107
Abstract: Triatoma barberi females were experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi at the second nymphal instar. The effect of the infection on the ovaries and in yolk proteins eggs were evaluated. The morphological changes in ovaries during their maturation as well as electrophoretic patterns of the yolk proteins eggs in infected and uninfected females were studied. There was no significant difference in the growth patterns of the ovaries between both females groups. None difference in electrophoretic patterns of yolk proteins in the eggs between infected and uninfected females, was observed.
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(original language: Spanish)

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Triatoma barberi