Dujardin Jean-Pierre
UMR INTERTRYP University Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, F-34398 Montpellier, France.
Pathogens. 2025 Jan 20;14(1):98. doi: 10.3390/pathogens14010098.
Morphometry is an effort to describe or measure the morphology of the body, or parts of it. It also provides quantitative data on the interactions of living organisms with their environment, external or internal. As a discipline, morphometrics has undergone significant developments in the last decade, making its implementation more visual and less laborious. Chagas disease vectors, often referred to by the common name of "kissing bugs", belong to the subfamily Triatominae. Due to their apparent morphological plasticity, they have been the subject of numerous morphometric studies. Most of these have been applied taking into account the particularities of this group of vectors, such as domesticity (synanthropy), food preferences, dispersal ability, insecticide resistance, as well as some taxonomic issues. This brief review over nearly three decades is organized here according to the body organs considered by the authors.
形态测量学旨在描述或测量身体及其部分的形态。它还提供有关生物体与其外部或内部环境相互作用的定量数据。作为一门学科，形态计量学在过去十年中取得了重大进展，使其实施更加直观且省力。恰加斯病媒介通常被俗称为“接吻虫”，属于锥蝽亚科。由于其明显的形态可塑性，它们一直是众多形态测量研究的对象。其中大多数研究在应用时考虑了这组媒介的特殊性，如嗜家习性（共栖性）、食物偏好、扩散能力、抗药性以及一些分类学问题。本文根据作者所考虑的身体器官，对近三十年来的这一简短综述进行了整理。
