Rhodnius prolixus

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

Common name: (kissing bug)

NCBI:txid13249

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 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) (Villalobos-Sambucaro et al., 2020).

NCBI:txid13249

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 here

The distribution of genes by CYP clan is tabulated here.