Flies (Diptera) play a significant role in the ecosystem as pollinators and decomposers, they are also important vermin disease vectors. Studies on dipteran species still lacking Malaysia; therefore, species’ biology, morphology, distribution, abundance necessary. The objectives of this study were to identify using molecular approach, determine flies’ Bovidae hosts, investigate diversity fly’s ...

FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) are a diverse and physiologically important class of neuropepeptides in the metazoa. In insects, FaRPs function as brain-gut neuropeptides and have been immunolocalized throughout the nervous system and alimentary tract where they have been shown to affect feeding behavior. The occurrence of FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity (FLI) was examined in the central ner...

The present study was carried out in a herd with concurrent infections of Mycoplasma wenyonii and 'Candidatus M. haemobos', to investigate if transplacental and/or vector-borne transmission is possible for one or both bovine haemoplasma species. For this purpose blood samples were collected from 38 mother animals and their newborn calves; as well as from 17 uninseminated cows twice three months...

Light microscopy revealed cuticular plaques restricted to the abdomens of both sexes of four species of brachycerous flies: Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart, Apiocera barri Cazier, Hydrophorus viridiflos (Walker), and Dolichopus consanguineus (Wheeler). Using SEM, these plaques proved glabrous and unsculptured. Only at high magnification did they show small pits. TEM of the plaques showed the cut...