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Michael J. Lehane

Researcher at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Publications -  82
Citations -  4080

Michael J. Lehane is an academic researcher from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tsetse fly & African trypanosomiasis. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 80 publications receiving 3591 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael J. Lehane include University of Texas Medical Branch.

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RNA interference of the salivary gland nitrophorin 2 in the triatomine bug Rhodnius prolixus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) by dsRNA ingestion or injection

TL;DR: The findings suggest that RNAi will prove a highly valuable functional genomics technique in triatomine bugs and the finding that feeding dsRNA can induce knockdown is novel for insects.
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Genome sequence of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans ): Vector of African trypanosomiasis

Junichi Watanabe, +147 more
- 25 Apr 2014 - 
TL;DR: The sequence and annotation of the 366-megabase Glossina mors Titans morsitans genome are described, providing a foundation for research into trypanosomiasis prevention and yield important insights with broad implications for multiple aspects of tsetse biology.
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Tsetse immune responses and trypanosome transmission: Implications for the development of tsetse-based strategies to reduce trypanosomiasis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe three antimicrobial peptide genes, attacin, defensin, and diptericin, from tsetse fat body tissue obtained by subtractive cloning after immune stimulation with Escherichia coli and trypanosomes.
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Interactions between tsetse and trypanosomes with implications for the control of trypanosomiasis.

TL;DR: The known biology of trypanosome development in the fly is reviewed in the context of the physiology of the digestive system and interactions of the immune defences and symbiotic flora.
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Prolonged gene knockdown in the tsetse fly Glossina by feeding double stranded RNA.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated, at transcript and protein level, that delivering dsRNA in the bloodmeal to Glossina morsitans mors Titans is as effective as injection in knockdown of the immunoresponsive midgut‐expressed gene TsetseEP.