Study on cheliceral sensilla of the brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) (Acari: Ixodidae) involved in taste perception of phagostimulants

Acta Tropica

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-83

  Soares, Sara Fernandes ^a   Louly, Carla Cristina Braz ^a   Marion Poll, Frédéric ^b,c   Ribeiro, Múcio Flávio Barbosa ^d   Borges, Lígia Miranda Ferreira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ATP; Electrophysiology; Glucose; GSH; SEM; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FEEDING; GLUCOSE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUCROSE; TICK;

ARTICLE; CHELICERATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGO; NONHUMAN; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SENSILLUM; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SENSILLA; TASTE PERCEPTION;

ACARI; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 84873700528     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Albritton E.C. Standard Values in Blood 1953, W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. 1st ed.
2. Ascoli-Christensen A., Sutcliffe J.F., Albert P.J. Effect of adenine nucleotides on labellar chemoreceptive cells of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. J. Insect Physiol. 1990, 36:339-344.
3. Ascoli-Christensen A.N.N., Sutcliffe J.F., Straton C.J. Feeding response of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans L., to blood fractions and adenine nucleotides. Physiol. Entomol. 1990, 15:249-259.
4. Bernays E.A., Chapman R.F. Electrophysiological responses of taste cells to nutrient mixtures in the polyphagous caterpillar of Grammia geneura. J. Comp. Physiol. A 2001, 187:205-213.
5. Bernays E.A., Chapman R.F. Taste cell responses in the polyphagous arctiid, Grammia geneura: towards a general pattern for caterpillars. J. Insect Physiol. 2001, 47:1029-1043.
6. Borges L.M.F., Soares S.F., Fonseca I.N., Chaves V.V., Louly C.C.B. Resistência acaricida em larvas de Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae) de Goiânia-GO, Brasil. Rev. Patol. Trop. 2007, 36:87-95.
7. Carroll J.F. Kairomonal activity of white-tailed deer metatarsal gland substances: a more sensitive behavioral bioassay using Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Med. Entomol. 1998, 35:90-93.
8. Carroll J.F. Responses of three species of adult ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) to chemicals in the coats of principal and minor hosts. J. Med. Entomol. 1999, 36:238-242.
9. Chapman R.F. Contact chemoreception in feeding by phytophagous insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 2003, 48:455-484.
10. Cheung U.S., Smith J.J.B. Ingestion of sugar diets correlates with spike activity in labellar chemosensilla of the flesh-fly, Neobellieria (=Sarcophaga) bullata. Physiol. Entomol. 1998, 23:313-321.
11. Demma L.J., Traeger M.S., Nicholson W.L., Paddock C.D., Blau D.M., Eremeeva M.E., Dasch G.A., Levin M.L., Singleton J., Zaki S.R. Rocky Mountain spotted fever from an unexpected tick vector in Arizona. N. Engl. J. Med. 2005, 353:587.
12. Dethier V.G. The taste of salt. Am. Sci. 1977, 65:744-751.
13. Dethier V.G., Browne B.L. The designation of chemicals in terms of the responses they elicit from insects. J. Econ. Entomol. 1960, 53:134-136.
14. Dukes H.H., Swenson M.J., Reece W.O. Dukes' Physiology of Domestic Animals 1993, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 11th ed.
15. Dusbábek F., Šimek P., Jegorov A., Tříska J. Identification of xanthine and hypoxanthine as components of assembly pheromone in excreta of argasid ticks. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 1991, 11:307-316.
16. Estrada-Peña A., Jongejan F. Ticks feeding on humans: a review of records on human-biting Ixodoidea with special reference to pathogen transmission. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 1999, 23:685-715.
17. Evans D.R., Mellon D. Electrophysiological studies of a water receptor associated with the taste sensilla of the blowfly. J. Gen. Physiol. 1962, 45:487-500.
18. Friend W.G. The gorging response in Rhodnius prolixus Stahl. Can. J. Zool. 1965, 43:125-132.
19. Friend W.G. Physical factors affecting the feeding responses of Culiseta inornata to ATP, sucrose, and blood. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 1978, 71:935-940.
20. Friend W.G., Smith J.J. Factors affecting feeding by bloodsucking insects. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 1977, 22.
21. Galun R. Feeding stimulants of the rat flea Xenopsyla cheopis Roth. Life Sci. 1966, 5:1335-1342.
22. Galun R. The evolution of purinergic receptors involved in recognition of a blood meal by hematophagous insects. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 1987, 82:5-9.
23. Galun R., Kindler S. Glutathione as an inducer of feeding in ticks. Science 1965, 147:166.
24. Galun R., Kindler S.H. Chemical basis of feeding in the tick Ornithodoros tholozani. J. Insect Physiol. 1968, 14:1409-1421.
25. Galun R., Margalit J. Some properties of the ATP receptors of Glossina austeni. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 1970, 64:171-174.
26. Glendinning J.I., Davis A., Ramaswamy S. Contribution of different taste cells and signaling pathways to the discrimination of bitter taste stimuli by an insect. J. Neurosci. 2002, 22:7281-7287.
27. Glendinning J.I., Ensslen S., Eisenberg M.E., Weiskopf P. Diet-induced plasticity in the taste system of an insect: localization to a single transduction pathway in an identified taste cell. J. Exp. Biol. 1999, 202:2091-2102.
28. Glendinning J.I., Hills T.T. Electrophysiological evidence for two transduction pathways within a bitter-sensitive taste receptor. J. Neurophysiol. 1997, 78:734-745.
29. Glendinning J.I., Jerud A., Reinherz A.T. The hungry caterpillar: an analysis of how carbohydrates stimulate feeding in Manduca sexta. J. Exp. Biol. 2007, 210:3054.
30. Grenacher S., Kröber T., Guerin P.M., Vlimant M. Behavioural and chemoreceptor cell responses of the tick, Ixodes ricinus, to its own faeces and faecal constituents. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 2001, 25:641-660.
31. Guglielmone A., Beati L., Barros-Battesti D., Labruna M., Nava S., Venzal J., Mangold A., Szabó M., Martins J., González-Acuña D., Estrada-Peña A. Ticks (Ixodidae) on humans in South America. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 2006, 40:83-100.
32. Hiroi M., Meunier N., Marion-Poll F., Tanimura T. Two antagonistic gustatory receptor neurons responding to sweet-salty and bitter taste in Drosophila. J. Neurobiol. 2004, 61:333-342.
33. Hocking B. Blood-sucking behavior of terrestrial arthropods. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 1971, 16:1-28.
34. Hodgson E.S., Lettvin J.Y., Roeder K.D. Physiology of a primary chemoreceptor unit. Science 1955, 122:417-418.
35. Jakinovich W., Goldstein I.J., Von Baumgarten R.J., Agranoff B.W. Sugar receptor specificity in the fleshfly, Sarcophaga bullata. Brain Res. 1971, 35:369-378.
36. Lindemann B. Chemoreception: tasting the sweet and the bitter. Curr. Biol. 1996, 6:1234-1237.
37. Liscia A., Crnjar R., Barbarossa I.T., Esu S., Muroni P., Galun R. Electrophysiological responses of labral apical chemoreceptors to adenine nucleotides in Culex pipiens. J. Insect Physiol. 1993, 39:261-265.
38. Louly C.C.B., Fonseca I.N., Oliveira V.F., Borges L.M.F. Ocorrência de Rhipicephalus sanguineus em trabalhadores de clínicas veterinárias e canis, no município de Goiânia, GO. Cienc. Anim. Bras. 2006, 7:103.
39. Marion-Poll F. Display and analysis of electrophysiological data under WindowsMMM. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 1996, 80:116-119.
40. Marion-Poll F., Descoins C. Taste detection of phytoecdysteroids in larvae of Bombyx mori, Spodoptera littoralis and Ostrinia nubilalis. J. Insect Physiol. 2002, 48:467-476.
41. Marion-Poll F., Pers J. Un-filtered recordings from insect taste sensilla. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 1996, 80:113-115.
42. Miller R.J., George J.E., Guerrero F., Carpenter L., Welch J.B. Characterization of acaricide resistance in Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille) (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from the Corozal Army Veterinary Quarantine Center, Panama. J. Med. Entomol. 2001, 38:298-302.
43. Mitchell B.K. Behavioural and electrophysiological investigations on the responses of larvae of the colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) to amino acids. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 1974, 17:255-264.
44. Mitchell B.K. Physiology of an ATP receptor in labellar sensilla of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans Westw. (Diptera Glossinidae). J. Exp. Biol. 1976, 65:259-271.
45. Morita H., Takeda K. The electrical resistance of the tarsal chemosensory hair of the butterfly, Vanessa indica. J. Fac. Sci. Hokkaido Univ., Ser. VI, Zool. 1957, 13:465-469.
46. Osterkamp J., Wahl U., Schmalfuss G., Haas W. Host-odour recognition in two tick species is coded in a blend of vertebrate volatiles. J. Comp. Physiol. A 1999, 185:59-67.
47. Pappas L.G., Larsen J.R. Gustatory mechanisms and sugar-feeding in the mosquito, Culiseta inornata. Physiol. Entomol. 1978, 3:115-119.
48. Parola P., Paddock C.D., Raoult D. Tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: emerging diseases challenging old concepts. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2005, 18:719-756.
49. Pegram R.G., Keirans J.E., Clifford C.M., Walker J.B. Clarification of the Rhipicephalus sanguineus group (Acari, Ixodoidea, Ixodidae). II. R. sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) and related species. Syst. Parasitol. 1987, 10:27-44.
50. Peterson S.C., Hanson F.E., Warthen J.D. Deterrence coding by a larval Manduca chemosensory neurone mediating rejection of a non host plant, Canna generalis L. Physiol. Entomol. 1993, 18:285-295.
51. Piranda E., Cançado P., Raia V., de Almeida T., Labruna M., Faccini J. The effect of temperature and fasting period on the viability of free-living females of Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae) under laboratory conditions. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 2008, 45:211-217.
52. Rees, C.J.C., 1970. Age dependency of response in an insect chemoreceptor sensillum.
53. Rharrabe K., Sayah F., Marion Poll F. Gustatory perception of phytoecdysteroids in Plodia interpunctella larvae. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 2011, 138:33-39.
54. Smedley S.R., Eisner T. Sodium uptake by puddling in a moth. Science 1995, 270:1816-1818.
55. Sonenshine D.E. Biology of Ticks 1991, Oxford University Press, New York, USA. 1st ed.
56. Sonenshine D.E. Biology of Ticks 1993, Oxford University Press, New York, USA. 1st ed.
57. Sonenshine D.E., Homsher P.J., Carson K.A., Wang V.D. Evidence of the role of the cheliceral digits in the perception of genital sex pheromones during mating in the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Med. Entomol. 1984, 21:296-306.
58. Sonenshine D.E., Silverstein R.M., Brossut R., Davis E.E., Taylor D., Carson K.A., Homsher P.J., Wang V.B. Genital sex pheromones of ixodid ticks. 1. Evidence of occurrence in anterior reproductive tract of American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Chem. Ecol. 1985, 11:1669-1694.
59. Stoffolano J.G., Angioy A.M., Crnjar R., Liscia A., Pietra P. Electrophysiological recordings from the taste chemosensilla of Tabanus nigrovittatus (Diptera: Tabanidae) and determination of behavioral tarsal acceptance thresholds. J. Med. Entomol. 1990, 27:14-23.
60. Taylor D., Phillips J.S., Sonenshine D.E., Hanson F.E. Ecdysteroids as a component of the genital sex pheromone in two species of hard ticks Dermacentor variabilis and Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae). Exp. Appl. Acarol. 1991, 12:275-296.
61. Waladde S.M. The sensory nervous system of the adult cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) ixodidae. Part ii. Scanning electron microscopy. Aust. J. Entomol. 1977, 16:73-79.
62. Waladde S.M. Tip-recording from ixodid tick olfactory sensilla: responses to tick related odours. J. Comp. Physiol. A 1982, 148:411-418.
63. Waladde S.M., Rice M.J. The sensory nervous system of the adult cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Canestrini) Ixodidae. Part III. Ultra-structure and electrophysiology of the cheliceral receptors. Aust. J. Entomol. 1977, 16:441-453.
64. Waladde S.M., Rice M.J. The sensory basis of tick feeding behaviour. Physiology of Ticks 1982, 71-118. Pergamon, Oxford. 1st ed. F.D. Obenchain, R. Galun (Eds.).
65. Walker J.B., Keirans J.E., Horak I.G. The Genus Rhipicephalus (Acardi, Ixodidae): A Guide to the Brown Ticks of the World 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1st ed.
66. Werner-Reiss U., Galun R., Crnjar R., Liscia A. Factors modulating the blood feeding behavior and the electrophysiological responses of labral apical chemoreceptors to adenine nucleotides in the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Culicidae). J. Insect Physiol. 1999, 45:801-808.
67. Werner-Reiss U., Galun R., Crnjar R., Liscia A. Sensitivity of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Culicidae) labral apical chemoreceptors to phagostimulants. J. Insect Physiol. 1999, 45:629-636.