The Body of Chagas Disease Vectors

Morphometry is an effort to describe or measure the morphology of the body, or parts of it. It also provides quantitative data on the interactions of living organisms with their environment, external or internal. As a discipline, morphometrics has undergone significant developments in the last decad...

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Published in:Pathogens (Basel) 2025-01, Vol.14 (1), p.98
Main Author: Dujardin, Jean-Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Animals
Chagas
Chagas disease
Chagas Disease - parasitology
Chagas Disease - transmission
Entomology
Evolution & development
Food preferences
Geometric morphometrics
Habitats
Humans
Insect Vectors - parasitology
Insecticide resistance
Insecticides
Laboratories
Morphology
morphometrics
Morphometry
Pesticide resistance
Review
Software
Taxonomy
Triatominae
Triatominae - parasitology
Trypanosoma cruzi
Vector-borne diseases
Vectors (Biology)
Vernacular names
Visual plasticity
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Summary:Morphometry is an effort to describe or measure the morphology of the body, or parts of it. It also provides quantitative data on the interactions of living organisms with their environment, external or internal. As a discipline, morphometrics has undergone significant developments in the last decade, making its implementation more visual and less laborious. Chagas disease vectors, often referred to by the common name of "kissing bugs", belong to the subfamily Triatominae. Due to their apparent morphological plasticity, they have been the subject of numerous morphometric studies. Most of these have been applied taking into account the particularities of this group of vectors, such as domesticity (synanthropy), food preferences, dispersal ability, insecticide resistance, as well as some taxonomic issues. This brief review over nearly three decades is organized here according to the body organs considered by the authors.
ISSN:2076-0817
2076-0817
DOI:10.3390/pathogens14010098