Publications

hematophagous insects as vectors for frog trypanosomes.	experimental infections of three hematophagous arthropods (rhodnius prolixus, aedes aegypti, and culex pipiens) with a trypanosome of the trypanosoma rotatorium complex found in the frogs hyla crepitans and leptodactylus insularum revealed that a. aegypti is a good host for the flagellate; the course of development in the intestinal tract of the mosquito is described from 15 minutes to 168 hours. c. pipiens showed only low intestinal infections and r. prolixus did not permit development of the p ...	1977	615322
peptidomic analysis of skin secretions of the caribbean frogs leptodactylus insularum and leptodactylus nesiotus (leptodactylidae) identifies an ocellatin with broad spectrum antimicrobial activity.	ocellatins are peptides produced in the skins of frogs belonging to the genus leptodactylus that generally display weak antimicrobial activity against gram-negative bacteria only. peptidomic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from leptodactylus insularum barbour 1906 and leptodactylus nesiotus heyer 1994, collected in the icacos peninsula, trinidad, led to the purification and structural characterization of five ocellatin-related peptides from l. insularum (ocellatin-1i togeth ...	2020	33092132