Kaba D., Berté D., Ta B. T. D., Telleria Jenny, Solano Philippe, Dujardin Jean-Pierre. (2017). The wing venation patterns to identify single tsetse flies. Infection Genetics and Evolution, 47, p. 132-139. ISSN 1567-1348.
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The wing venation patterns to identify single tsetse flies
Kaba D., Berté D., Ta B. T. D., Telleria Jenny, Solano Philippe, Dujardin Jean-Pierre
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Infection Genetics and Evolution, 2017,
47, p. 132-139 ISSN 1567-1348
This is the first study to explore the potential of various geometric morphometrics methods to help the morphological diagnostic of tsetse species, vectors of human and animal trypanosomiases in sub-Saharan Africa. We compared landmarks, semilandmarks and outlines techniques on male and female samples of species, and suggested adapted strategies according to the countries and their own Glossina fauna. We could compare up to 7 taxa belonging to the three main subgenera of the Glossina genus: Nemorhina (5 species), Glossina (1 species) and Austenina (1 species). Our sample included the major vectors of sleeping sickness: G. palpalis palpalis, G. p. gambiensis, G. fuscipes fuscipes and G. f. quanzensis, as well as two important vectors of African animal trypanosomoses: G. tachinoides and Glossina morsitans submorsitans. The average level of correct species recognition by the wing shape was satisfactory, and slightly higher for females than for males. The best scores of correct assignment, in both sexes, were obtained by the contour technique (96% of correct attribution in females, 92% in males), slightly higher than for semilandmarks (95% and 91%) or landmarks (94% and 89%) techniques. We made our images of wings freely available to be used as reference images (
Plan de classement
Entomologie médicale / Parasitologie / Virologie [052]
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Sciences du monde animal [080]
