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TRANSCRIPTOME-BASED MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS: RHODNIUS MONTENEGRENSIS (TRIATOMINAE) AND ITS POSITION WITHIN THE RHODNIUS PROLIXUS–RHODNIUS ROBUSTUS CRYPTIC–SPECIES COMPLEX
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Grupo de Triatomíneos. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Programa Interunidades de Pós Graduação em Bioinformática. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Sistemática Molecular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Biologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Grupo de Triatomíneos. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Grupo de Triatomíneos. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Medicina. Núcleo de Medicina Tropical. Programa de Pós Graduação em Medicina Tropical. Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Programa Interunidades de Pós Graduação em Bioinformática. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Epidemiologia e Sistemática Molecular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Biologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Grupo de Triatomíneos. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto René Rachou. Grupo de Triatomíneos. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil / Universidade de Brasília. Faculdade de Medicina. Núcleo de Medicina Tropical. Programa de Pós Graduação em Medicina Tropical. Brasilia, DF, Brasil.
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Background: Rhodnius montenegrensis (Triatominae), a potential vector of Chagas disease, was described after R. robustus-like bugs from southwestern Amazonia. Mitochondrial cytb sequence near-identity with sympatric R. robustus (genotype II) raised doubts about the taxonomic status of R. montenegrensis, but comparative studies have reported fairly clear morphological and genetic differences between R. montenegrensis and laboratory stocks identified as R. robustus. Here, we use a transcriptome-based approach to investigate this apparent paradox.
Results: We retrieved publicly-available transcriptome sequence-reads from R. montenegrensis and from the R. robustus stocks used as the taxonomic benchmark in comparative studies. We (i) aligned transcriptome sequence-reads to mitochondrial (cytb) and nuclear (ITS2, D2-28S and AmpG) query sequences (47 overall) from members of the R. prolixus–R. robustus cryptic–species complex and related taxa; (ii) computed breadth- and depth-coverage for the 259 consensus sequences generated by these alignments; and, for each locus, (iii) appraised query sequences and full-breadth-coverage consensus sequences in terms of nucleotide-sequence polymorphism and phylogenetic relations. We found evidence confirming that R. montenegrensis and R. robustus genotype II are genetically indistinguishable and, hence, implying that they are, in all likelihood, the same species. Furthermore, we found compelling genetic evidence that the benchmark ‘R. robustus’ stocks used in R. montenegrensis description and in later transcriptome-based comparisons are in fact R. prolixus, although likely mixed to some degree with R. robustus (probably genotype II, a.k.a. R. montenegrensis).
Conclusions: We illustrate how public-domain genetic/transcriptomic data can help address challenging issues in disease-vector systematics. In our case-study, taxonomic confusion apparently stemmed from the misinterpretation of sequence-data analyses and misidentification of taxonomic-benchmark stocks. More generally, and together with previous reports of mixed and/or misidentified Rhodnius spp. laboratory colonies, our results call into question the conclusions of many studies (on morphology, genetics, physiology, behavior, bionomics or interactions with microorganisms including trypanosomes) based on non-genotyped ‘R. prolixus’ or ‘R. robustus’ stocks. Correct species identification is a prerequisite for investigating the factors that underlie the physiological, behavioral or ecological differences between primary domestic vectors of Chagas disease, such as R. prolixus, and their sylvatic, medically less-relevant relatives such as R. robustus (s.l.) including R. montenegrensis.
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