Mandrills and their malaria parasites
Studying malaria in wild populations can be difficult, but repeatedly sampling individuals reveals the costs and consequences of malaria in wild… Read more »
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Malaria: understanding drug resistance
A recent study of the P. falciparum chloroquine-resistance transporter points to mechanisms underlying resistance to chloroquine and piperaquine
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An eye worm most fowl
While the eye worm Oxyspirura petrowi is highly prevalent in northern bobwhite quail, little is known about the life cycle. A… Read more »
Honey baits for arbovirus surveillance
Authors of a recent study evaluated which mosquito trap is best to use in combination with honey-baited FTA filter paper cards as… Read more »
Identifying climate-sensitive infectious diseases in animals and humans in Northern regions
With the increasing concerns over the influence of climate change on infectious diseases, the authors of a new paper published in… Read more »
Malaria mosquito crosses large desert – ‘it was a breeze’
Evidence for large-scale dispersal of malaria mosquitoes across the Sahel comes from balloon sampling
Highlights of the BMC Series: November 2019
With another month of cutting edge, high impact research, we look back on just a few highlights from articles published across the… Read more »
From spider males and their allegedly numb genitalia
The sensory capacity of male spiders during mating may be higher than previously thought. In this blog, Tim Dederichs, one of the… Read more »
Giardia, deworming, and WASH: a complex picture
New findings have revealed that Giardia infections remained prevalent in a low-income setting throughout a regular deworming… Read more »
MinION: Democratising biodiversity research by misusing a portable long-read sequencer for short-read barcoding
Many animal species on Earth are awaiting discovery and description, but finding all these unknown species is a monumental task.… Read more »