Biological control interventions reduce pest abundance and crop damage while maintaining natural enemies in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis (2022)
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Ratto, F., Bruce, T., Chipabika, G., Mwamakamba, S., Mkandawire, R., Khan, Z., …Sait, S. (2022). Biological control interventions reduce pest abundance and crop damage while maintaining natural enemies in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1695

Insect pests are a major challenge to smallholder crop production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where access to synthetic pesticides, which are linked to environmental and health risks, is often limited. Biological control interventions could offer a... Read More about Biological control interventions reduce pest abundance and crop damage while maintaining natural enemies in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis.

Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes (2022)
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Coon, K., Hegde, S., & Hughes, G. (2022). Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes. Microbiome, 10, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01256-5

Background Mosquitoes harbor microbial communities that play important roles in their growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to transmit human pathogens. Microbiome transplantation approaches are often used to study host-microbe interactions and... Read More about Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes.

Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album (2022)
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Thomas, P. A., Dering, M., Giertych, M. J., Iszkuło, G., Tomaszewski, D., & Briggs, J. (2022). Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album. Journal of Ecology, 111(3), 701-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14036

This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Viscum album L. (Mistletoe) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biologi... Read More about Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album.

The future of Viscum album L. in Europe will be shaped by temperature and host availability. (2022)
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(2022). The future of Viscum album L. in Europe will be shaped by temperature and host availability. Scientific reports, 17072 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21532-6

Viscum album L. is a plant of great importance due to its influence on the host trees and, by extension, entire ecosystems. The species is also significant to humans-on the one hand, because of its use in medicine, and on the other, because of the gr... Read More about The future of Viscum album L. in Europe will be shaped by temperature and host availability..

High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences. (2022)
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Boddé, M., Makunin, A., Ayala, D., Bouafou, L., Diabaté, A., Ekpo, U. F., …Lawniczak, M. K. (2022). High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences. eLife, 11, Article e78775. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.78775

The ANOSPP amplicon panel is a genus-wide targeted sequencing panel to facilitate large-scale monitoring of Anopheles species diversity. Combining information from the 62 nuclear amplicons present in the ANOSPP panel allows for a more senstive and sp... Read More about High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences..

Biological control interventions and botanical pesticides for insect pests of crops in sub-Saharan Africa: A mapping review (2022)
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Ratto, F., Bruce, T., Chipabika, G., Mwamakamba, S., Mkandawire, R., Khan, Z., …Sait, S. M. (2022). Biological control interventions and botanical pesticides for insect pests of crops in sub-Saharan Africa: A mapping review. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, Article ARTN 883975. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.883975

<jats:p>Agricultural productivity can be increased sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by reducing crop losses due to insect pest damage. As an alternative to environmentally-damaging chemical pesticides, biological control interventions and bota... Read More about Biological control interventions and botanical pesticides for insect pests of crops in sub-Saharan Africa: A mapping review.

Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. (2022)
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(2022). Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature communications, 2381 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30037-9

The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and harvest. A synthesis of fecundity data from 714 specie... Read More about Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery..