Fossil psychodoid flies and their relation to parasitic diseases
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
; 98(supl.1): 35-37, Jan. 15, 2003. ilus
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RESUMO
Psychodid sand flies are blood-sucking fly vectors of several parasitic diseases. The oldest definitive record of this group is from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (circa -135 to -125 My), but the high diversity within this group supports the idea that the psychodoids originated much earlier in history. The palaeontology demonstrates that the Lower Cretaceous representatives of the different subfamilies of Psychodidae had similar morphology and were blood-feeders, which supports Hennig's hypothesis on the ground plan structure of this family. Historical relationship between sand flies and diseases is unclear up to the present time, but this relationship could be as old as the origin of psychodoids because of the blood-feeding life mode
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Assunto principal:
Doenças Parasitárias
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Psychodidae
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Fósseis
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Insetos Vetores
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo prognóstico
Limite:
Animais
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz
Assunto da revista:
Medicina Tropical
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Parasitologia
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
França
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Líbano
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Lebanese University/LB
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Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/FR