It has a unique symbiotic relationship with three different kinds of bacteria, and both males and females feed exclusively on blood. The researchers identified a set of visual and odour proteins that appear to drive the fly's key behavioural responses, such as searching for mates. They also found the photoreceptor gene rh5 that explains its attraction to blue-black colours. The team also found a family of genes in the tsetse fly's salivary glands, the tsal genes, which help the fly counteract its host's responses to blood-feeding, such as clotting.
Hayo yamesemwa naMkurugenzi wa Sayansi AMP,Dr. Bradford Gessner wakati wa Mkutano wa Afrika wa magonjwa ya pneumococcal ulio kusanya viongozi na wasimamizi katika sekta ya chanjo kutoka katika nchi ambazo zimeshatambulisha chanjo au zinazotaka kutambulisha chanjo jijini Dar es Salaam leo.“Kuwepo kwa taarifa za karibuni na pia kubadilishana mafunzo ya mipango ya chanjo itawezesha washiriki kusaidia maamuzi ya nchi kwa kutumia vithibitisho.”