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James S. Patterson

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Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

AbstractBackgroundTriatomine bugs, the vectors of Chagas disease, associate with vertebrate hosts in highly diverse ecotopes. When these blood-sucking bugs adapt to new microhabitats, their phenotypes may change. Although understanding phenotypic variation is key to the study of adaptive evolution and central to phenotype-based taxonomy, the drivers of phenotypic change and diversity in triatomines remain poorly understood.Methods/FindingsWe combined a detailed phenotypic appraisal (including morphology and morphometrics) with mitochondrialcytband nuclear ITS2 DNA-sequence analyses to studyRhodnius ecuadoriensispopulations from across the species’ range. We found three major, naked-eye phen…

0301 basic medicineSystematicsEntomologyChagas diseaseRange (biology)030231 tropical medicineRhodniuslcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineNestbiology.animalSystematicsPeruparasitic diseasesGeneticsAnimalsHumanslcsh:RC109-216Selection GeneticTriatominaeEcosystemPhylogenyMorphometricsPhylogenetic treebiologyResearchCorrectionVertebratePhenotypic traitbiology.organism_classificationAdaptation PhysiologicalBiological EvolutionInsect VectorsPhylogeography030104 developmental biologyInfectious DiseasesPhenotypeHabitatEvolutionary biologyRhodniusParasitologyTaxonomy (biology)EcuadorTriatominaeMorphometricsParasites & Vectors
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Additional file 3 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

Additional file 3: Text S1. Detailed descriptions of the diverse Rhodnius ecuadoriensis phenotypes.

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Correction to: Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae.

2021

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Infectious DiseasesbiologyEvolutionary biologyParasitologyInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Convergence (relationship)biology.organism_classificationTriatominaeDivergence
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Additional file 4 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

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Additional file 4: Figure S1. Phenotype–microhabitat–phylogeny correspondences. Multispecies coalescent species tree (as in Fig. 9 of the main text), with pictures (approximately to the same scale) of adult Rhodnius ecuadoriensis and its closest relatives—R. colombiensis, R. pallescens and R. pictipes. The distribution of phenotypes along the phylogeny suggests that the common ancestor of the diverse R. ecuadoriensis forms was most likely a relatively large, straw-like-colored bug. Similarly, the distribution of primary microhabitats suggests that a shift of southern-Andean populations from palm crowns (green stars) to vertebrate nests (orange circles) resulted in convergence towards the sm…

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Additional file 7 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

Additional file 7: Alignment S3. Nuclear ITS2 haplotypes in Rhodnius ecuadoriensis from Ecuador and Peru, plus outgroup species (R. colombiensis, R. pallescens and R. pictipes).

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Additional file 1 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

Additional file 1: Table S1. Populations, specimen details and haplotype codes of 106 Rhodnius ecuadoriensis bugs used in morphometric and/or molecular analyses. A summary table with the numbers of bugs used in each analysis is also provided.

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Additional file 6 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

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Additional file 6: Alignment S2. Fourteen nuclear ITS2 haplotypes found in Rhodnius ecuadoriensis from Ecuador and Peru.

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Additional file 2 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

Additional file 2: Alignment S1. Mitochondrial cytochrome b haplotypes in Rhodnius ecuadoriensis from Ecuador and Peru, plus outgroup species (R. colombiensis, R. pallescens, R. pictipes).

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Additional file 5 of Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae

2021

Additional file 5: Figure S2. Centroid-size comparisons. Population boxplots and Tukey-Kramer (T-K) tests for head and forewing centroid sizes derived from geometric morphometrics.

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