Laboratory and microcosm experiments reveal contrasted adaptive responses to ammonia and water mineralisation in aquatic stages of the sibling species Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto) and Anopheles coluzzii. (2021)
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(2021). Laboratory and microcosm experiments reveal contrasted adaptive responses to ammonia and water mineralisation in aquatic stages of the sibling species Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto) and Anopheles coluzzii. Parasites and Vectors, 17 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04483-7

BACKGROUND: The sibling species of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto) and Anopheles coluzzii co-exist in many parts of West Africa and are thought to have recently diverged through a process of ecological speciation with gene flo... Read More about Laboratory and microcosm experiments reveal contrasted adaptive responses to ammonia and water mineralisation in aquatic stages of the sibling species Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto) and Anopheles coluzzii..

Three Aphid-Transmitted Viruses Encourage Vector Migration From Infected Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Plants Through a Combination of Volatile and Surface Cues (2020)
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Mutuku, J., Cunniffe, N., Pickett, J., Carr, J., Woodcock, C., Gilligan, C., …Bruce, T. (2020). Three Aphid-Transmitted Viruses Encourage Vector Migration From Infected Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Plants Through a Combination of Volatile and Surface Cues. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 613772. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.613772

Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV), bean common mosaic necrosis virus (BCMNV), and cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) are important pathogens of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), a crop vital for food security in sub-Saharan Africa. These viruses are vectored... Read More about Three Aphid-Transmitted Viruses Encourage Vector Migration From Infected Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Plants Through a Combination of Volatile and Surface Cues.

Insecticide Resistance Profiling of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae Populations in the Southern Senegal: Role of Target Sites and Metabolic Resistance Mechanisms. (2020)
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(2020). Insecticide Resistance Profiling of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae Populations in the Southern Senegal: Role of Target Sites and Metabolic Resistance Mechanisms. Genes, https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11121403

The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance among the main malaria vectors is threatening the effectiveness of vector control interventions in Senegal. The main drivers of this resistance in the Anopheles gambiae complex (e.g., An. gambiae and... Read More about Insecticide Resistance Profiling of Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae Populations in the Southern Senegal: Role of Target Sites and Metabolic Resistance Mechanisms..

Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine (2020)
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Emmenegger, T., Bensch, S., Hahn, S., Kishkinev, D., Procházka, P., Zehtindjiev, P., & Bauer, S. (2020). Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7030

How blood parasite infections influence the migration of hosts remains a lively debated issue as past studies found negative, positive or no response to infections. This particularly applies to small birds, for which monitoring of detailed migration... Read More about Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine.

Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans. (2020)
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Hyatt, J. G., Prévost, S., Devos, J. M., Mycroft-West, C. J., Skidmore, M. A., & Winter, A. (2020). Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans. Pathogens an international, open access journal of pathogens and pathogen-host interactions, 9(11), Article 935. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9110935

Dengue fever is a rapidly emerging vector-borne viral disease with a growing global burden of approximately 390 million new infections per annum. The Dengue virus (DENV) is a flavivirus spread by female mosquitos of the aedes genus, but the mechanism... Read More about Molecular Changes in Dengue Envelope Protein Domain III upon Interaction with Glycosaminoglycans..

New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites (2020)
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Arnold, E., Keeble, D., Greenwood, C., & Rogers, K. (2020). New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites. Scientific reports, 10, Article 19597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73200-2

Biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites are confounding materials whose properties remain uncertain, even after years of study. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis was applied to hydroxyapatites in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but this area of researc... Read More about New insights into the application of pair distribution function studies to biogenic and synthetic hydroxyapatites.

Larval ecological adaptations, water quality and aquaticbacterial communities in Anopheles gambiae s.l. :prospects for improved rearing techniques towards releaseprogrammes (2020)
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Akpodiete, N. O. (2020). Larval ecological adaptations, water quality and aquaticbacterial communities in Anopheles gambiae s.l. :prospects for improved rearing techniques towards releaseprogrammes. (Thesis). Keele University

The sibling species Anopheles gambiae s.s. and Anopheles coluzzii are the most important vectors of human malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. They are thought to be undergoing speciation with gene flow with rare viable hybrids but are reproductively isola... Read More about Larval ecological adaptations, water quality and aquaticbacterial communities in Anopheles gambiae s.l. :prospects for improved rearing techniques towards releaseprogrammes.

Assessment of the ecologically dependent post-zygotic isolation between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae. (2020)
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(2020). Assessment of the ecologically dependent post-zygotic isolation between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae. PloS one, e0240625 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240625

Within the Anopheles gambiae complex, the sibling species An. coluzzii and An. gambiae are undergoing sympatric speciation. These species are characterized by rare hybrids in most of their geographical distribution. A strong assortative mating mediat... Read More about Assessment of the ecologically dependent post-zygotic isolation between Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles gambiae..

Cellular mechanisms regulating synthetic sex ratio distortion in the Anopheles gambiae germline (2020)
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Elaine Haghighat-Khah, R., Sharma, A., Reis Wunderlich, M., Morselli, G., Anna Marston, L., Bamikole, C., …Galizi, R. (2020). Cellular mechanisms regulating synthetic sex ratio distortion in the Anopheles gambiae germline. Pathogens and Global Health, 370 -378. https://doi.org/10.1080/20477724.2020.1803628

Genetic control strategies aimed to bias the sex of progenies towards males present a promising new paradigm to eliminate malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. A synthetic sex-ratio distortion (SD) system was successfully engineered in Anopheles gambiae b... Read More about Cellular mechanisms regulating synthetic sex ratio distortion in the Anopheles gambiae germline.

Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation (2020)
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Vairo, F., Aimè Coussoud-Mavoungou, M., Ntoumi, F., Castilletti, C., Kitembo, L., Haider, N., …Ippolito, G. (2020). Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation. Viruses, 1020 - 1020. https://doi.org/10.3390/v12091020

<jats:p>The Republic of Congo (RoC) declared a chikungunya (CHIK) outbreak on 9 February 2019. We conducted a ONE-Human-Animal HEALTH epidemiological, virological and entomological investigation. Methods: We collected national surveillance and epidem... Read More about Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation.

Author Correction: A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. (2020)
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Simoni, A., Hammond, A. M., Beaghton, A. K., Galizi, R., Taxiarchi, C., Kyrou, K., …Crisanti, A. (2020). Author Correction: A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0658-1

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

Genome wide association analysis of a stemborer egg induced "call-for-help" defence trait in maize (2020)
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Tamiru, A., Khan, Z., Pickett, J., Paliwal, R., Manthi, S., Odeny, D., …Bruce, T. (2020). Genome wide association analysis of a stemborer egg induced "call-for-help" defence trait in maize. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68075-2

Tritrophic interactions allow plants to recruit natural enemies for protection against herbivory. Here we investigated genetic variability in induced responses to stemborer egg-laying in maize Zea mays (L.) (Poaceae). We conducted a genome wide assoc... Read More about Genome wide association analysis of a stemborer egg induced "call-for-help" defence trait in maize.

Behavioural and Electrophysiological Responses of Female Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes to Volatiles from a Mango Bait (2020)
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Okumu, F., Tripet, F., Bruce, T., Sobhy, I., Roberts, J., & Meza, F. (2020). Behavioural and Electrophysiological Responses of Female Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes to Volatiles from a Mango Bait. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 387-396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-020-01172-8

Attractive Toxic Sugar Baits (ATSB) are used in a "lure-and-kill" approach for management of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae, but the active chemicals were previously unknown. Here we collected volatiles from a mango, Mangifera indica, juice bai... Read More about Behavioural and Electrophysiological Responses of Female Anopheles gambiae Mosquitoes to Volatiles from a Mango Bait.

A multidisciplinary investigation of the relationship between 'Pseudomonas syringae' and 'Aesculus hippocastanum' bleeding canker (2020)
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Alhamd, O. A. A. (2020). A multidisciplinary investigation of the relationship between 'Pseudomonas syringae' and 'Aesculus hippocastanum' bleeding canker. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/421792

Bleeding canker of Aesculus hippocastanum is caused by Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi. The disease has rapidly spread through many countries, yet little is known about this potentially fatal disease. Climate change affects plant diseases direc... Read More about A multidisciplinary investigation of the relationship between 'Pseudomonas syringae' and 'Aesculus hippocastanum' bleeding canker.

Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018 (2020)
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Ghosh, S., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. K., Chowdhury, S., Haider, N., Kafi, M. A. H., …Jhora, S. T. (2020). Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article ARTN 2410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59109-w

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the im... Read More about Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006–2018.

Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. (2020)
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(2020). Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. Nature Plants, 88 - 94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0592-8

Many plants benefit from synchronous year-to-year variation in seed production, called masting. Masting benefits plants because it increases the efficiency of pollination and satiates predators, which reduces seed loss. Here, using a 39-year-long dat... Read More about Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech..

Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission (2020)
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Gilligan, C., Pickett, J., Tungadi, T., Murphy, A., Pate, A., Woodcock, C., …Donnelly, R. (2020). Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, 1811. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01811

Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV), bean common mosaic necrosis virus (BCMNV), and cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) cause serious epidemics in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), a vital food security crop in many low-to-medium income countries, particularly i... Read More about Different Plant Viruses Induce Changes in Feeding Behavior of Specialist and Generalist Aphids on Common Bean That Are Likely to Enhance Virus Transmission.

From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology. (2019)
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(2019). From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology. Ecology Letters, 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13442

Highly variable and synchronised production of seeds by plant populations, known as masting, is implicated in many important ecological processes, but how it arises remains poorly understood. The lack of experimental studies prevents underlying mecha... Read More about From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology..

Spatial genetic structure and diversity of natural populations of Aesculus hippocastanum L. in Greece (2019)
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(2019). Spatial genetic structure and diversity of natural populations of Aesculus hippocastanum L. in Greece. PloS one, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226225

Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) is an endemic and relict species from the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot and a popular ornamental tree. Knowledge about the evolutionary history of this species remains scarce. Here, we ask what historic... Read More about Spatial genetic structure and diversity of natural populations of Aesculus hippocastanum L. in Greece.

Forgotten Fibrocytes: A Neglected, Supporting Cell Type of the Cochlea With the Potential to be an Alternative Therapeutic Target in Hearing Loss. (2019)
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(2019). Forgotten Fibrocytes: A Neglected, Supporting Cell Type of the Cochlea With the Potential to be an Alternative Therapeutic Target in Hearing Loss. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00532

Cochlear fibrocytes are a homeostatic supporting cell type embedded in the vascularized extracellular matrix of the spiral ligament, within the lateral wall. Here, they participate in the connective tissue syncytium that enables potassium recirculati... Read More about Forgotten Fibrocytes: A Neglected, Supporting Cell Type of the Cochlea With the Potential to be an Alternative Therapeutic Target in Hearing Loss..