Optimising Vine Weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Monitoring Tool Design. (2022)
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Fezza, E., Roberts, J., Bruce, T., Walsh, L., Gaffney, M., & Pope, T. (2022). Optimising Vine Weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Monitoring Tool Design. Insects, https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13010080

Vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is an economically important insect pest of horticultural crops. To identify an effective and reliable monitoring system for adult vine weevil, this study investigated the influence o... Read More about Optimising Vine Weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Monitoring Tool Design..

Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier (2021)
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(2021). Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01854-w

The major-element chemical composition of garnet provides valuable petrogenetic information, particularly in metamorphic rocks. When facing detrital garnet, information about the bulk-rock composition and mineral paragenesis of the initial garnet-bea... Read More about Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier.

Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees? (2021)
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Kirk. (2021). Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees?. Bee World, https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315

Anyone writing in English about bees will immediately encounter the question of whether to spell the common names as one word or two. Is it “honey bee” or “honeybee”? Is it “bumble bee” or ­“bumblebee”? It is easy to be confused because both spelling... Read More about Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees?.

Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study (2021)
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Yusuf Osman, A., Ali Elmi, S., Simons, D., Elton, L., Haider, N., Azam Khan, M., …Kock, R. (2021). Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study. Pathogens an international, open access journal of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions, https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10091160

The burden of antimicrobial use in agricultural settings is one of the greatest challenges facing global health and food security in the modern era. Malaysian poultry operations are a relevant but understudied component of epidemiology of antimicrobi... Read More about Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns and Risk Factors Associated with Salmonella spp. Isolates from Poultry Farms in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Entomological baseline data collection and power analyses in preparation of a mosquito swarm-killing intervention in south-western Burkina Faso. (2021)
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(2021). Entomological baseline data collection and power analyses in preparation of a mosquito swarm-killing intervention in south-western Burkina Faso. Malaria Journal, 346 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03877-x

BACKGROUND: Insecticides are currently the main tools used to reduce the transmission of malaria; therefore, the development of resistance to insecticides in malaria vectors is of major concern for malaria control. The resistance level to pyrethroids... Read More about Entomological baseline data collection and power analyses in preparation of a mosquito swarm-killing intervention in south-western Burkina Faso..

The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium (2021)
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Smeaton, C., Cui, X., Bianchi, T., Cage, A., Howe, J., & Austin, W. (2021). The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1- 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107081

Fjord sediments are recognized as hotspots for the burial and storage of organic carbon, yet little is known about the long-term drivers of significant terrestrial organic carbon (OC) transfers into these coastal carbon stores. The mid-latitude fjord... Read More about The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium.

The Hyperlipidaemic Drug Fenofibrate Significantly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 in Cell Culture Models. (2021)
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Davies, S., Mycroft-West, C., Pagani, I., Hill, H., Chen, Y., Karlsson, R., …Richardson, A. (2021). The Hyperlipidaemic Drug Fenofibrate Significantly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 in Cell Culture Models. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 660490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.660490

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused a significant number of fatalities and worldwide disruption. To identify drugs to repurpose to treat SARS-CoV-2 infections, we established a screen to measure the di... Read More about The Hyperlipidaemic Drug Fenofibrate Significantly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 in Cell Culture Models..

The Pupal Parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae Is Attracted to the Same Yeast Volatiles as Its Adult Host. (2021)
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(2021). The Pupal Parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae Is Attracted to the Same Yeast Volatiles as Its Adult Host. Journal of Chemical Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-021-01295-6

There is increasing evidence that microorganisms, particularly fungi and bacteria, emit volatile compounds that mediate the foraging behaviour of insects and therefore have the potential to affect key ecological relationships. However, to what extent... Read More about The Pupal Parasitoid Trichopria drosophilae Is Attracted to the Same Yeast Volatiles as Its Adult Host..

Mating behaviour, mate choice and female resistance in the bean flower thrips (Megalurothrips sjostedti) (2021)
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Kirk. (2021). Mating behaviour, mate choice and female resistance in the bean flower thrips (Megalurothrips sjostedti). Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93891-5

Many species of thrips (Thysanoptera) in the family Thripidae form mating aggregations, but the adaptive significance of these aggregations and the extent of male and female mate choice is poorly understood. We studied the mating behaviour of the bea... Read More about Mating behaviour, mate choice and female resistance in the bean flower thrips (Megalurothrips sjostedti).

Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area (2021)
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(2021). Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 247 - 252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.06.043

Accurate diagnosis of chikungunya (CHIK) is essential for effective disease management and surveillance. In a cohort of febrile Congolese patients, available diagnostic methods widely used in CHIK diagnosis were evaluated. In addition, plasma cytokin... Read More about Diagnosis of Chikungunya Virus in Febrile Patients From a Malaria Holoendemic Area.

Exploiting Thrips Aggregation Pheromones to Develop a Lure-and-Kill Strategy for the Management of the Bean Flower Thrips (2021)
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Pope, T., Niassy, S., Subramanian, S., Drijfhout, F., Akinyemi, A., Tamiru, A., …Campbell, H. (2021). Exploiting Thrips Aggregation Pheromones to Develop a Lure-and-Kill Strategy for the Management of the Bean Flower Thrips. Agronomy, https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11071269

The potential of semiochemicals to lure insect pests to a trap where they can be killed with biopesticides has been demonstrated as an eco-friendly pest management alternative. In this study, we tested two recently characterized male-produced aggrega... Read More about Exploiting Thrips Aggregation Pheromones to Develop a Lure-and-Kill Strategy for the Management of the Bean Flower Thrips.

Eave and swarm collections prove effective for biased captures of male Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in Uganda (2021)
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Birungi, K., Mabuka, D. P., Balyesima, V., Namukwaya, A., Chemoges, E. W., Kiwuwa-Muyingo, S., …Kayondo, J. K. (2021). Eave and swarm collections prove effective for biased captures of male Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in Uganda. Parasites and Vectors, 14(1), Article ARTN 281. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04770-x

BACKGROUND: Traditional malaria vector sampling techniques bias collections towards female mosquitoes. Comprehensive understanding of vector dynamics requires balanced vector sampling of both males and females. Male mosquito sampling is also necessar... Read More about Eave and swarm collections prove effective for biased captures of male Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes in Uganda.

Dissecting the molecular diversity and commonality of bovine and human treponemes identifies key survival and adhesion mechanisms (2021)
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Wastling. (2021). Dissecting the molecular diversity and commonality of bovine and human treponemes identifies key survival and adhesion mechanisms. PLOS pathogens a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, e1009464 - e1009464. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1009464

Here, we report the first complete genomes of three cultivable treponeme species from bovine digital dermatitis (DD) skin lesions, two comparative human treponemes, considered indistinguishable from bovine DD species, and a bovine gastrointestinal (G... Read More about Dissecting the molecular diversity and commonality of bovine and human treponemes identifies key survival and adhesion mechanisms.

Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils (2021)
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(2021). Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils. Malaria Journal, 123 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03661-x

BACKGROUND: Larval source management was historically one of the most effective malaria control methods but is now widely deprioritized in Africa, where insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are preferred. However, in Tan... Read More about Addressing key gaps in implementation of mosquito larviciding to accelerate malaria vector control in southern Tanzania: results of a stakeholder engagement process in local district councils.

Evaluation of African Maize Cultivars for Resistance to Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae (2021)
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Chiriboga Morales, X., Tamiru, A., Sobhy, I., Bruce, T., Midega, C., & Khan, Z. (2021). Evaluation of African Maize Cultivars for Resistance to Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae. Plants, 392 - 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020392

The fall armyworm (FAW) has recently invaded and become an important pest of maize in Africa causing yield losses reaching up to a third of maize annual production. The present study evaluated different aspects of resistance of six maize cultivars, c... Read More about Evaluation of African Maize Cultivars for Resistance to Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) Larvae.

Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird (2021)
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Kishkinev, D., Packmor, F., Zechmeister, T., Winkler, H., Chernetsov, N., Mouritsen, H., & Holland, R. A. (2021). Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird. Current Biology, R330-R332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.051

Displacement experiments have demonstrated that experienced migratory birds translocated thousands of kilometers away from their migratory corridor to unfamiliar areas can orient towards and ultimately reach their intended destinations. This implies... Read More about Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird.

Improved BioGents® Sentinel trap with heat (BGSH) for outdoor collections of Anopheline species in Burkina Faso and Mali, West Africa (2021)
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(2021). Improved BioGents® Sentinel trap with heat (BGSH) for outdoor collections of Anopheline species in Burkina Faso and Mali, West Africa. Parasites and Vectors, 82 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04527-y

BACKGROUND: Since the late 1990s, malaria control programmes have relied extensively on mass bednet distribution and indoor residual spraying. Both interventions use pesticides and target mosquitoes coming indoors either to feed or to rest. Unfortuna... Read More about Improved BioGents® Sentinel trap with heat (BGSH) for outdoor collections of Anopheline species in Burkina Faso and Mali, West Africa.

Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach? (2021)
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Garcia, J., McCarthy, H. S., Kuiper, J. H., Melrose, J., & Roberts, S. (2021). Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach?. Biomolecules, 11(1), Article ARTN 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11010092

Articular cartilage is considered to have limited regenerative capacity, which has led to the search for therapies to limit or halt the progression of its destruction. Perlecan, a multifunctional heparan sulphate (HS) proteoglycan, promotes embryonic... Read More about Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach?.

Nanostructural deformation of high-stiffness spruce wood under tension. (2021)
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(2021). Nanostructural deformation of high-stiffness spruce wood under tension

Conifer wood is an exceptionally stiff and strong material when its cellulose microfibrils are well aligned. However, it is not well understood how the polymer components cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin co-operate to resist tensile stress in woo... Read More about Nanostructural deformation of high-stiffness spruce wood under tension..

Zucchini Plants Alter Gene Expression and Emission of (E)-ß-Caryophyllene Following Aphis gossypii Infestation (2021)
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Vitiello, A., Rao, R., Giorgini, M., Molisso, D., Digilio, M., Corrado, G., …D'Agostino, N. (2021). Zucchini Plants Alter Gene Expression and Emission of (E)-ß-Caryophyllene Following Aphis gossypii Infestation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 592603 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.592603

Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) is widely cultivated in temperate regions. One of the major production challenges is the damage caused by Aphis gossypii (Homoptera: Aphididae), a polyphagous aphid, which can negatively affect its host plant, both direct... Read More about Zucchini Plants Alter Gene Expression and Emission of (E)-ß-Caryophyllene Following Aphis gossypii Infestation.