• Aedes fluviatilis cell lines as new tools to study metabolic and immune interactions in mosquito-Wolbachia symbiosis 

      Calixto, Christiano; Silva, Jhenifer N.; Sampaio, Angélica Fernandes Arcanjo; Nogueira, Cintia Lopes; Abreu, Leonardo Araujo de; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de; Gondim, Katia Calp; Moraes, Bruno; Carvalho, Stephanie Serafim de; Silva, Renato Martins da; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Moreira, Luciano A.; Logullo, Carlos (2021) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the present work, we established two novel embryonic cell lines from the mosquito Aedes fluviatilis containing or not the naturally occurring symbiont bacteria Wolbachia, which were called wAflu1 and Aflu2, respectively. ...
    • ATP binding cassette transporter mediates both heme and pesticide detoxification in tick midgut cells 

      Lara, Flávio Alves; Pohl, Paula Cristiane; Gandara, Ana Caroline; Ferreira, Jessica da Silva; Nascimento-Silva, Maria Clara; Bechara, Gervásio Henrique; Sorgine, Marcos Henrique Ferreira; Almeida, Igor Correia de; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2015) [Artigo de periódico]
      In ticks, the digestion of blood occurs intracellularly and proteolytic digestion of hemoglobin takes place in a dedicated type of lysosome, the digest vesicle, followed by transfer of the heme moiety of hemoglobin to a ...
    • Coxiella endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus microplus modulates tick physiology with a major impact in blood feeding capacity 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Tirloni, Lucas; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Braz, Glória Regina Cardoso; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Silva, Lucas André Dedavid e; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2022) [Artigo de periódico]
      In the past decade, metagenomics studies exploring tick microbiota have revealed widespread interactions between bacteria and arthropods, including symbiotic interactions. Functional studies showed that obligate endosymbionts ...
    • A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Parizi, Luis Fernando; Nunes, Rodrigo Dutra; Schama, Renata; Albano, Rodolpho Mattos; Tirloni, Lucas; Oldiges, Daiane Patrícia; Vieira, Ricardo Pilz; Oliveira, Wanderson Henrique Cruz; Leite, Milane de Souza; Gonzales, Sergio Alberto; Farber, Marisa Diana; Martins, Orlando; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite that causes important economic losses in livestock. Different species of ticks harbor a symbiont bacterium of the genus Coxiella. It was showed that ...
    • Poor unstable midgut microbiome of hard ticks contrasts with abundant and stable monospecific microbiome in ovaries 

      Guizzo, Melina Garcia; Neupane, Saraswoti; Kucera, Matej; Perner, Jan; Frantová, Helena; Vaz Junior, Itabajara da Silva; Oliveira, Pedro Lagerblad de; Kopacek, Petr; Zurek, Ludek (2020) [Artigo de periódico]
      Culture-independent metagenomic methodologies have enabled detection and identification of microorganisms in various biological systems and often revealed complex and unknown microbiomes. In many organisms, the microbiome ...