====== Rhodnius prolixus ======

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    Class       : Insecta
    Infraclass  : Neoptera
    Order       : Hemiptera
    Suborder    : Heteroptera
    Infraorder  : Cimicomorpha
    Family      : Rediviidae

//Common name//: (kissing bug)

NCBI:txid[[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=13249|13249]]

//Rhodnius// is an emblematic species. This vector of Chagas disease was the experimental model that Sir V.B. Wigglesworth used to establish some of the basic principles of insect endocrinology in the 1930s (review in [[https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.00679|Riddiford, 2020]]). The juvenile hormone of //Rhodnius// was identified as the 2,3,10,11-diepoxide of methyl farnesoate (known by the quaint name of JHSB3) ([[https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59495-1|Villalobos-Sambucaro et al., 2020]]). 

NCBI:txid[[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=13249|13249]]

Annotation from assembly GCA_000181055.3, project ACBP03, TSA GAHY01, GECK01, GHKJ01

97 sequences, including 8 pseudogenes.The genome is very fragmented, so there are several incomplete genes, or genes considered as pseudogenes that may turn out to be active genes when a higher quality assembly becomes available. CYP6HE1 is a recent tandem duplicate with identical aa sequences.

A FASTA format file of this CYPome (excluding the smaller fragments) can be downloaded {{ ::rhodnius_prolixus.fasta |here}} 

The distribution of genes by CYP clan is tabulated [[CYPfam_by_clan|here]].