Tsetse flies stand out from their blood-feeding cousins the mosquitoes and ticks because of their unique reproductive biology. They give birth to live young and, even more unusual, the mother ...

University of Bristol. "Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 March 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240312221001.htm>.

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa&nbsp;have found.

Shape-shifting trypanosomes: Flagellar shortening followed by asymmetric division in Trypanosoma congolense from the tsetse proventriculus. PLOS Pathogens, 2018; 14 (5): e1007043 DOI: 10.1371 ...

Blood-sucking Tsetse flies may be our newest allies in the fight to prevent infectious diseases. Tsetse fly Tsetse flies receive a lot of bad press for their role in spreading deadly diseases such as ...

Tsetse flies transmit trypanosomes—unicellular parasites that cause trypanosomiasis in humans and animals. “African sleeping sickness is a dreadful disease that’s hard to treat.

Van Den Abbeele, J. et al. Trypanosoma brucei modifies the tsetse salivary composition, altering the fly feeding behavior that favors parasite transmission. PLoS Pathog. 6, e1000926 (2010) ...

The tsetse fly occurs in large regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The flies feed on human and animal blood, transmitting trypanosoma in the process - small, single-cell organisms that use the flies as ...

New Haven, Conn. — Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals ...

A tsetse fly (Glossina spp.), pictured here in Burkina Faso. Image courtesy of the International Atomic Energy Agency (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

The findings were published Feb. 16 in Science. Tsetse flies are known to carry parasites called African trypanosomes. When the insects bite humans or animals, they transmit these parasites, spreading ...