Humans as blood-feeding sources in sylvatic triatomines of Chile unveiled by next-generation sequencing

San Juan, Esteban; Araya-Donoso, Raúl; Sierra-Rosales, Catalina; Correa, Juana P.; Quiroga, Nicol; Campos-Soto, Ricardo; Solari, Aldo; Llewellyn, Martin; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Botto-Mahan, Carezza

doi:10.1186/s13071-023-05841-x

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Table 1 Vertebrate species detected by NGS as a blood-feeding source of each sylvatic triatomine species shown by group classification

From: Humans as blood-feeding sources in sylvatic triatomines of Chile unveiled by next-generation sequencing

Triatomine species	Group	Order	Scientific name	% diet
M. parapatrica	H	Primates	Homo sapiens	48.46
	B	Accipitriformes	Cathartes aura	34.31
	M	Didelphimorphia	Thylamys elegans^a	17.09
	R	Squamata	Gekkota sp.	0.14
M. spinolai	M	Rodentia	Abrocoma bennettii	18.04
	M	Rodentia	Phyllotis darwini	13.21
	M	Rodentia	Octodon degus	12.82
	M	Rodentia	Octodon lunatus^a	7.39
	R	Squamata	Liolaemus fuscus^a	7.06
	H	Primates	Homo sapiens	6.47
	R	Squamata	Gekkota sp.	5.20
	M	Lagomorpha	Oryctolagus cuniculus	4.77
	R	Squamata	Liolaemus monticola^a	4.06
	M	Rodentia	Phyllotis limatus^a	2.94
	B	Passeriformes	Tyrannides sp.	2.42
	R	Squamata	Iguanidae sp.	2.14
	MAH	Carnivora	Canis lupus familiaris	2.02
	MAH	Rodentia	Mus musculus	1.87
	B	Passeriformes	Sicalis olivascens^a	1.69
	MAH	Artiodactyla	Capra hircus	1.61
	B	Passeriformes	Phrygilus alaudinus^a	1.47
	B	Passeriformes	Icteridae sp.	1.38
	R	Squamata	Liolaemus nitidus	0.82
	B	Passeriformes	Turdidae sp.	0.78
	B	Passeriformes	Diuca diuca^a	0.77
	B	Passeriformes	Agriornis lividus^a	0.31
	B	Passeriformes	Pteroptochos sp.^a	0.27
	B	Accipitriformes	Vultur gryphus^a	0.12
	R	Squamata	Liolaemus platei	0.08
	R	Squamata	Pleurodonta sp.	0.06
	M	Rodentia	Sigmodontidae sp.	0.05
	B	Galliformes	Callipepla californica^a	0.05
	MAH	Artiodactyla	Sus scrofa^a	0.03
	M	Lagomorpha	Lepus europaeus^a	0.02
	MAH	Rodentia	Rattus rattus	0.02
	B	Passeriformes	Muscisaxicola rufivertex^a	0.01
	B	Passeriformes	Pseudasthenes humicola^a	0.01
	M	Didelphimorphia	Thylamys elegans	0.01
	M	Rodentia	Abrothrix olivaceus	0.01
	BAH	Galliformes	Gallus gallus	0.01
T. infestans	H	Primates	Homo sapiens	50.69
	M	Rodentia	Octodon degus^a	38.01
	M	Lagomorpha	Oryctolagus cuniculus	11.30

H humans, MAH/M mammals associated/not associated to humans, BAH/B birds associated and not associated to humans, R reptiles. The percentage of each vertebrate species in the diet was obtained from the number of reads for that specific vertebrate over the total reads of vertebrates within each triatomine species
^aFirst detection in the diet of that sylvatic triatomine species in Chile

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