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SUBMITTER: Lima LHGM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951712 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lima Leonardo H G de M LHGM Mesquita Marcelo R MR Skrip Laura L de Souza Freitas Moisés T MT Silva Vladimir C VC Kirstein Oscar D OD Abassi Ibrahim I Warburg Alon A Balbino Valdir de Q VQ Costa Carlos H N CHN
Scientific reports 20160720
Little is known about the feeding behavior of hematophagous insects that require plant sugar to complete their life cycles. We studied plant feeding of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies, known vectors of Leishmania infantum/chagasi parasites, in a Brazilian city endemic with visceral leishmaniasis. The DNA barcode technique was applied to identify plant food source of wild-caught L. longipalpis using specific primers for a locus from the chloroplast genome, ribulose diphosphate carboxylase. DNA f ...[more]