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Under pressure: phenotypic divergence and convergence associated with microhabitat adaptations in Triatominae.
Parasites & vectors - 8 Apr 2021
Abad-Franch Fernando, Monteiro Fernando A, Pavan Márcio G, Patterson James S, Bargues M Dolores, Zuriaga M Ángeles, Aguilar Marcelo, Beard Charles B, Mas-Coma Santiago, Miles Michael A
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BACKGROUND: Triatomine bugs, the vectors of Chagas disease, associate with vertebrate hosts in highly diverse ecotopes. It has been proposed that occupation of new microhabitats may trigger selection for distinct phenotypic variants in these blood-sucking bugs. Although understanding phenotypic variation is key to the study of adaptive evolution and central to phenotype-based taxonomy, the drivers of phenotypic...
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