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• Tsetse Functional Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Tsetse Population Genetics
• Trypanosome Biology in Tsetse
• Tsetse Immunity
• Biology of Tsetse Symbionts
• Paratransgenesis
• Wolbachia Symbiont/Gene Drive Strategies

Reproductive Biology

• Analysis of milk gland structure and function in Glossina morsitans: milk protein production, symbiont populations and fecundity.
• Molecular aspects of viviparous reproductive biology of the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans): regulation of yolk and milk gland protein synthesis.

Fat Body Biology

• Abdominal pericardial sinus: a neurohemal site in the tsetse and other cyclorraphan flies.
• Cloning and functional expression of a fat body-specific chitinase cDNA from the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans.

Iron Metabolism

• Molecular aspects of transferrin expression in the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans).
• Molecular characterization of iron binding proteins from Glossina morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae).

Salivary Gland Biology

• A family of genes with growth factor and adenosine deaminase similarity are preferentially expressed in the salivary glands of Glossina m. morsitans.
• Tsetse thrombin inhibitor: bloodmeal-induced expression of an anticoagulant in salivary glands and gut tissue of Glossina morsitans morsitans.
• Isolation and characterization of the tsetse thrombin inhibitor: a potent antithrombotic peptide from the saliva of Glossina morsitans morsitans.

Gut Biology

• Proventriculus-specific cDNAs characterized from the tsetse, Glossina morsitans morsitans.
• Molecular characterization of two serine proteases expressed in gut tissue of the African trypanosome vector, Glossina morsitans morsitans.