New developments in human African trypanosomiasis (Publications)
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review recent literature on human African trypanosomiasis, focussing on genome sequencing, diagnosis and drug discovery, and typing of trypanosomes. RECENT FINDINGS: The most imp
Pyrethroid tolerance is associated with elevated expression of antioxidants and agricultural practice in <em>Anopheles arabiensis</em> sampled from an... (Publications)
Spraying of agricultural crops with insecticides can select for resistance in nontarget insects and this may compromise the use of insecticides for the control of vector-borne diseases. The tolerance
A shot in the dark: the silent quest of a free-flying phonotactic fly (Publications)
To reproduce, females of the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea detect and localise a calling male cricket upon which they deposit their endoparasitic larvae. Calling male crickets are therefore subject to
Death comes suddenly to the unprepared: singing crickets, call fragmentation, and parasitoid flies (Publications)
Male field crickets are subject to a delicate dilemma because their songs simultaneously attract mates and acoustic predators. It has been suggested that in response, crickets have modified various te
EPD in its twentieth year: towards complete promoter coverage of selected model organisms (Publications)
The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) is an annotated non-redundant collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters, experimentally defined by a transcription start site (TSS). Access to promoter sequences
Indoors man-biting mosquitoes and their implication on malaria transmission in Mpwapwa and Iringa Districts, Tanzania (Publications)
Entomological surveys were carried out in six villages at different altitudes in Mpwapwa and Iringa Districts in central Tanzania in March 2002. A total of 1291 mosquitoes were collected. Of these, 88