The sialotranscriptome of Antricola delacruzi female ticks is compatible with non-hematophagous behavior and an alternative source of food

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• 作者：José ; Marcos C. Ribeiro^a ; Marcelo B. Labruna^b ; Ben J. Mans^c ; ^d ; Sandra Regina Maruyama^e ; Ivo M.B. Francischetti^a ; Gustavo Canavaci Barizon^e ; Isabel K.F. de Miranda Santos^e ; ^{imsantos@fmrp.usp.br}
• 关键词：Antricola delacruzi ; Hematophagy ; Scavenging ; Transcriptome ; Salivary glands ; Bat guano
• 刊名：Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：80_09651748
• 类别：bio
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 卷：42
• 期：5
• 页码：332-342
• 文件大小：1389 K

摘要

The hosts for Antricola delacruzi ticks are insectivorous, cave-dwelling bats on which only larvae are found. The mouthparts of nymphal and adult A.聽delacruzi are compatible with scavenging feeding because the hypostome is small and toothless. How a single blood meal of a larva provides energy for several molts as well as for oviposition by females is not known. Adults of A.聽delacruzi possibly feed upon an unknown food source in bat guano, a substrate on which nymphal and adult stages are always found. Guano produced by insectivorous bats contains twice the amount of protein and 60 times the amount of iron as beef. In addition, bacteria and chitin-rich fungi proliferate on guano. Comparative data on the transcriptome of the salivary glands of A.聽delacruzi is nonexistent and would help to understand the physiological adaptations of salivary glands that accompany different sources of food as well as the steps taken by the Acari toward haematophagy, believed to have evolved from scavenging dead animals. Annotation of the transcriptome of salivary glands from female instars of A.聽delacruzi collected on guano categorized 5.7%of the clusters of expressed genes as putative secreted proteins. They included abundantly expressed TIL-domain-containing proteins (possible anti-microbials), an abundantly expressed protein similar to a serum amyloid found in the sialotranscriptomes of Ornithodoros spp., a savignygrin, a family of mucin/peritrophin/cuticle-like proteins, anti-microbials and an HIV envelope-like glycoprotein also found in soft ticks. When comparing the transcriptome of A.聽delacruzi with those of blood-feeding female soft and hard ticks some notable differences were observed; they consisted of the following transcripts over- or under-represented or absent in the sialotranscriptome of A.聽delacruzi that may reflect its source of food: ferritin, mucins with chitin-binding domains and TIL-domain-containing proteins versus lipocalins, basic tail proteins, metalloproteases, glycine-rich proteins and Kunitz protease inhibitors, respectively.