SIFamide Influences Feeding in the Chagas Disease Vector, Rhodnius prolixus

Frontiers in Neuroscience
Mahnoor AyubIan Orchard

Abstract

SIFamides are a family of highly conserved neuropeptides in arthropods, and in insects are mainly expressed in four medial neurons in the pars intercerebralis of the brain. Although SIFamide has been shown to influence sexual behavior, feeding, and sleep regulation in holometabolous insects such as Drosophila melanogaster, little is known about its role in hemimetabolous insects, including the blood-sucking bug, Rhodnius prolixus. In this study, we confirm the nucleotide sequence for R. prolixus SIFamide (Rhopr-SIFa) and find characteristic phenotypic expression of SIFamide in four cells of the pars intercerebralis in the brain. In addition to extensive SIFa projections throughout the entire central nervous system, SIFamidergic processes also enter into the corpus cardiacum, and project along the dorsal vessel, suggestive of Rhopr-SIFa acting as a neurohormone. Physiologically, Rhopr-SIFamide induces dose-dependent increases in heartbeat frequency in vitro suggesting the presence of peripheral receptors, and thereby indicating Rhopr-SIFa is released to act upon peripheral targets. We also explore the function of Rhopr-SIFa in R. prolixus, specifically in relation to feeding, since R. prolixus is a blood-gorging insect and a vec...Continue Reading

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