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Bendele KG, Guerrero FD, Lohmeyer KH, Foil LD, Metz RP, Johnson CD. Horn fly transcriptome data of ten populations from the southern United States with varying degrees and molecular mechanisms of pesticide resistance. Data Brief 2023; 48:109272. [PMID: 37363058 PMCID: PMC10285531 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Haematobia irritans irritans (Linnaeus, 1758: Diptera: Muscidae), the horn fly, is an external parasite of penned and pastured livestock that causes a major economic impact on cattle production worldwide. Pesticides such as synthetic pyrethroids and organophosphates are routinely used to control horn flies; however, resistance to these chemicals has become a concern in several countries. To further elucidate the molecular mechanisms of resistance in horn fly populations, we sequenced the transcriptomes of ten populations of horn flies from the southern US possessing varying degrees of pesticide resistance levels to pyrethroids, organophosphates, and endosulfans. We employed an Illumina paired end HiSeq approach, followed by de novo assembly of the transcriptomes using CLC Genomics Workbench 8.0.1 De Novo Assembler using multiple kmers, and annotation using Blast2GO PRO version 5.2.5. The Gene Ontology biological process term Response to Insecticide was found in all the populations, but at an increased frequency in the populations with higher levels of insecticide resistance. The raw sequence reads are archived in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and assembled population transcriptomes in the Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly (TSA) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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- Kylie G. Bendele
- USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland US Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Rd., Kerrville, TX 78028, USA
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- USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland US Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Rd., Kerrville, TX 78028, USA
- Massey University, School of Veterinary Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui 4442, New Zealand
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- USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland US Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, 2700 Fredericksburg Rd., Kerrville, TX 78028, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agriculture Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, 1500 Research Parkway, Room 250, Centeq Building A, College Station, TX 77845, USA
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Service, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, 1500 Research Parkway, Room 250, Centeq Building A, College Station, TX 77845, USA
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Melo LRB, Medeiros MA, Beserra LAF, Barros ATM, Riet-Correa F, Azevedo SS, Vilela VLR. Development and number of generations of Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) in bovine fecal masses in the semiarid region of Brazil. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports 2020; 20:100411. [PMID: 32448539 DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2020.100411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Revised: 04/08/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The horn fly (Haematobia irritans) is particularly unique among the parasites that primarily affect Brazilian cattle farming. Appropriate control strategies fundamentally depend on epidemiological knowledge, which is particularly scarce in Northeastern Brazil. This study aimed to elucidate the ecology of the immature horn fly in the semiarid region of Brazil. Bovine fecal masses were collected and covered with emergence traps to collect the horn fly for sexing and counting. Weather records of the region were concurrently acquired. A total of 11,390H. irritans were collected from 601 fecal masses, with a sex ratio of 0.9:1 (male: female). Horn fly emergence was observed in 78% (15%-100%) of the fecal masses, varying from 1 to 185 (mean = 23.3) flies/fecal mass, predominantly at the beginning of the rainy season. The minimum period for egg-to-adult development of H. irritans varied from 7 to 11 days, indicating the occurrence of 30 generations per year in the region. Rapid development of the immature horn fly in the semiarid region, throughout the year may results in a high number of generations and infestations in cattle herds.
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- Lídio Ricardo Bezerra Melo
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA), Plataforma de Salud Animal, Estación Experimental INIA Tacuarembó, Ruta 5 km 386, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência e Saúde Animal, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Avenida Universitária s/n. Patos, Paraíba, Brazil; Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Instituto Federal da Paraíba (IFPB), Avenida Presidente Tancredo Neves s/n. Sousa, Paraíba, Brazil.
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Sex chromosomes and sex determining genes can evolve fast, with the sex-linked chromosomes often differing between closely related species. Population genetics theory has been developed and tested to explain the rapid evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination. However, we do not know why the sex chromosomes are divergent in some taxa and conserved in others. Addressing this question requires comparing closely related taxa with conserved and divergent sex chromosomes to identify biological features that could explain these differences. Cytological karyotypes suggest that muscid flies (e.g., house fly) and blow flies are such a taxonomic pair. The sex chromosomes appear to differ across muscid species, whereas they are conserved across blow flies. Despite the cytological evidence, we do not know the extent to which muscid sex chromosomes are independently derived along different evolutionary lineages. To address that question, we used genomic and transcriptomic sequence data to identify young sex chromosomes in two closely related muscid species, horn fly (Haematobia irritans) and stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans). We provide evidence that the nascent sex chromosomes of horn fly and stable fly were derived independently from each other and from the young sex chromosomes of the closely related house fly (Musca domestica). We present three different scenarios that could have given rise to the sex chromosomes of horn fly and stable fly, and we describe how the scenarios could be distinguished. Distinguishing between these scenarios in future work could identify features of muscid genomes that promote sex chromosome divergence.
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Panei CJ, Larsen AE, Fuentealba NA, Metz GE, Echeverría MG, Galosi CM, Valera AR. Study of horn flies as vectors of bovine leukemia virus. Open Vet J 2019; 9:33-37. [PMID: 31086763 PMCID: PMC6500860 DOI: 10.4314/ovj.v9i1.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is the agent responsible for enzootic bovine leukosis, the most common neoplastic disease in cattle. The horn fly, a major hematophagous pest of cattle, is able to transmit different diseases in cattle. However, its implication in BLV transmission under a natural environment is still discussed. The objectives of this work were to determine the presence of BLV in horn flies (by sequencing) and to evaluate the ability of horn flies to transmit BLV to cattle (through an experimental assay under a natural environment). To demonstrate the presence of BLV in the flies, 40 horn flies were collected from a BLV-positive cow with a sweep net and 10 pools with four horn-fly mouthparts each were prepared. The presence of BLV was determined by nested polymerase chain reaction and sequencing. To demonstrate BLV transmission, other 40 flies were collected from the same BLV-positive cow with a sweep net. Eight homogenates containing five horn-fly mouthparts each were prepared and injected to eight cows of different breeds, and blood samples were collected every 21 days. Then, to evaluate the ability of horn flies to transmit BLV to grazing cattle under natural conditions, both infected and uninfected cattle from the experimental transmission assay were kept together in the same paddock with more than 200 horn flies per animal for 120 days. Blood samples were collected every 20 days and the number of flies was determined. The sequencing results confirmed the presence of the provirus in horn flies. The results also confirmed that BLV transmission is a possible event, at least experimentally. However, the role of horn flies as vectors of BLV under a natural grazing system is still discussed.
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- Carlos Javier Panei
- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas (CIC), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Virología, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Galindo-Velasco E, Lezama-Gutiérrez R, Cruz-Vázquez C, Pescador-Rubio A, Angel-Sahagún CA, Ojeda-Chi MM, Rodríguez-Vivas RI, Contreras-Lara D. Efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi (Ascomycetes: Hypocreales) against adult Haematobia irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) under stable conditions in the Mexican dry tropics. Vet Parasitol 2015; 209:173-8. [PMID: 25771932 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2015.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of five strains of Metarhizium anisopliae (Ma) and three strains of Isaria fumosorosea (Ifr) at a concentration of 1×10(8)colony-forming units/ml applied by spraying onto bovines with controlled infestation of Haematobia irritans under stable conditions in the Mexican dry tropics. Four experiments were performed, in each of which three treatments (two fungal strains and one control) were evaluated with eight repetitions for each one, by carrying out a single application of the aqueous suspension of each strain. The animals were isolated in individual cages and direct counts of the infestation were carried out for 13 days. It was observed that strains Ma2, Ma6, Ma10, Ma14, and Ma34 caused 94-100% reduction in infestation between days 12 and 13 post-treatment, while strains Ifr19, Ifr11, and Ifr12 reduced infestation from 90% to 98% up to day 13 post-application. There was an effect in the generation of horn flies from the excrement of bovines that were treated with different strains, reducing the reproduction of subsequent generations. It was concluded that the strains of M. anisopliae and I. fumosorosea evaluated in this study can be used as biocontrol agents in infestations of H. irritans in stabled bovines.
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- E Galindo-Velasco
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, University of Colima, Km 40 Autopista Colima-Manzanillo, Tecomán, Colima C.P. 28100, Mexico.
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- Faculty of Biological and Agro-livestock Sciences, University of Colima, Tecomán, Colima, Mexico
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- El Llano Technological Institute Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
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- University Center of Agro-livestock Research and Development, University of Colima, Tecomán, Colima, Mexico
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- Department of Agronomy, Life Sciences Division, Irapuato-Salamanca Campus, University of Guanajuato, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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- Parasitology Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mexico
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- Parasitology Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mexico
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, University of Colima, Km 40 Autopista Colima-Manzanillo, Tecomán, Colima C.P. 28100, Mexico
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Low VL, Tan TK, Lim PE, Domingues LN, Tay ST, Lim YAL, Goh TG, Panchadcharam C, Bathmanaban P, Sofian-Azirun M. Use of COI, CytB and ND5 genes for intra- and inter-specific differentiation of Haematobia irritans and Haematobia exigua. Vet Parasitol 2014; 204:439-42. [PMID: 24912955 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2014.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2014] [Revised: 05/15/2014] [Accepted: 05/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A multilocus sequence analysis using mitochondria-encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), cytochrome B (CytB), NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (ND5); nuclear encoded 18S ribosomal RNA (18S) and 28S ribosomal RNA (28S) genes was performed to determine the levels of genetic variation between the closely related species Haematobia irritans Linnaeus and Haematobia exigua de Meijere. Among these five genes, ND5 and CytB genes were found to be more variable and informative in resolving the interspecific relationships of both species. In contrast, the COI gene was more valuable in inferring the intraspecific relationships. The ribosomal 18S and 28S sequences of H. irritans and H. exigua were highly conserved with limited intra- and inter-specific variation. Molecular evidence presented in this study demonstrated that both flies are genetically distinct and could be differentiated based on sequence analysis of mitochondrial genes.
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- Van Lun Low
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Department of Entomology, 404 Life Science Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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