Diptera
- pH control in the midgut of Aedes aegypti under different nutritional conditions
Summary: pH in Aedes midgut is finely controlled according to the nutritional condition of the insect. Hormone release and perception of proteins inside the lumen are involved in the process.
- Hemolymph circulation in insect flight appendages: physiology of the wing heart and circulatory flow in the wings of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae
Summary: Mosquitoes employ an auxiliary heart, located underneath the thoracic scutellum, to systematically propel hemolymph (insect blood) throughout the veins of the wings.
- CCAP and FMRFamide-like peptides accelerate the contraction rate of the antennal accessory pulsatile organs (auxiliary hearts) of mosquitoes
Summary: Three insect neuropeptides accelerate the contraction rate of the antennal hearts of mosquitoes, as well as the velocity of hemolymph in the antennal space.
- The speed and metabolic cost of digesting a blood meal depends on temperature in a major disease vector
Summary: Respirometry reveals that higher environmental temperatures reduce the metabolic costs of digestion but hasten starvation, and behavioral measurements show that tsetse flies switch between thermal optima throughout feeding cycles.