Vertebrate blood composition is heavily biased towards proteins, and hemoglobin, which is
a hemeprotein, is by far the most abundant protein. Typically, hematophagous insects ingest …

Rhodnius prolixus not only has served as a model organism for the study of insect physiology,
but also is a major vector of Chagas disease, an illness that affects approximately seven …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of four intensities of tactile-thermal
application (TTA) to changes in duration of stage transition (DST) and performance on a …

The scaling properties of the tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) are shown using standard
130nm, 90nm, and 65nm CMOS process flows. For the different technology nodes the …

We show a straightforward workflow combining homology search in Rhodnius prolixus genome
sequence with cloning by rapid amplification of cDNA ends and mass spectrometry. We …

… Sterkel et al. show that blood digestion by blood-sucking insects produces toxic amounts
of tyrosine, and that detoxification of an excess of this amino acid is an adaptation to a blood-…

The importance of Chagas disease motivated the scientific effort to obtain the complete
genomic sequence of the vector species Rhodnius prolixus, this information is also relevant to …

… Amino acid residue numbers are indicated using the sodium channel of M. domestica as a
… M indicates the position of the standard size marker, in which the lower five bands are 100, …

… In order to quantify the ecdysteroid levels, a serial dilution (ranging from 1028 M to 10212
M) of 20E was placed on each 96-well plate. Results were determined by comparison with …

… Spectra in MS were recorded between 600 and 4000 m/z. Job-wide interpretation of the
MS data allowed the 15 highest peptides in intensity (with signal to noise ratios ≥30) for …