Temperate zone plant natural products – a novel resource for activity against tropical parasitic diseases (2021)
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Hameed, H., King, E., Doleckova, K., Bartholomew, B., Hollinshead, J., Mbye, H., …Price, H. (2021). Temperate zone plant natural products – a novel resource for activity against tropical parasitic diseases. Pharmaceuticals, 14(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph14030227

The use of plant-derived natural products for the treatment of tropical parasitic diseases often has ethnopharmacological origins. As such, plants grown in temperate regions remain largely untested for novel anti-parasitic activities. We describe her... Read More about Temperate zone plant natural products – a novel resource for activity against tropical parasitic diseases.

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). A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0508-1

Only female insects transmit diseases such as malaria, dengue and Zika; therefore, control methods that bias the sex ratio of insect offspring have long been sought. Genetic elements such as sex-chromosome drives can distort sex ratios to produce uni... Read More about A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

Arboviral bottlenecks and challenges to maintaining diversity and fitness during mosquito transmission. (2014)
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Forrester-Soto. (2014). Arboviral bottlenecks and challenges to maintaining diversity and fitness during mosquito transmission. Viruses, 3991 - 4004. https://doi.org/10.3390/v6103991

The term arbovirus denotes viruses that are transmitted by arthropods, such as ticks, mosquitoes, and other biting arthropods. The infection of these vectors produces a certain set of evolutionary pressures on the virus; involving migration from the... Read More about Arboviral bottlenecks and challenges to maintaining diversity and fitness during mosquito transmission..