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Transgenic selection and underlying mechanisms in apicomplexan parasites

open access: yesThe FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Transgenic selection markers have driven genetic engineering in apicomplexans, enabling precise, iterative experiments. This review discusses mechanistic details of drug selection markers, strategies for marker recycling, and practical considerations for several clinically relevant parasites.
Swaroop Peddiraju   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tick-Tac-Foe: When Ticks, Trade, and Zoonotic Pathogens Align in African Wet Meat Markets. [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Chall
ABSTRACT Zoonotic diseases account for over ∼60% of infectious diseases and present a significantly growing fatality threat in Africa. Live and wet markets (LWMs) in Africa function as key economic venues that support human livelihoods through social interaction and trade in food stuff, including meat and other animal‐based products.
Munaro AT.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Transcriptomic and proteomic signatures underlying nymphal adaptation and foam production in the forage pest Mahanarva spectabilis

open access: yesInsect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.
RNA‐seq and Batelli gland proteomics of fifth‐instar Mahanarva spectabilis nymphs reveal transcripts and proteins associated with xylem feeding, foam production and environmental interaction. Functional annotation identified genes involved in osmoregulation, detoxification, chemosensation and stress responses, while proteomic analysis confirmed ...
Monique da Silva Bonjour   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and prevalence of ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) in bovines in five municipalities of the Popayán plateau (Colombia)

open access: yesRevista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias
Background: Ticks and tick-borne diseases are one of the major problems of public and animal health worldwide. Tick infestation causes economic losses in cattle farms of the Popayán plateau (Cauca, Colombia) due to costs associated with preventive ...
Carlos E Valencia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gene expression in Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus: Identification of tick antigens and investigation of the tick RNA interference pathway

open access: yes, 2009
The cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus is a hematophagous ectoparasite of major veterinary importance both globally and in Australia. Australian beef cattle producers in the tropical and subtropical regions of the continent suffer estimated annual ...
Kurscheid, Sebastian
core  

Integrated Tick Management of the Winter Tick, Dermacentor albipictus (Acari: Ixodidae), in Grazing Cattle Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus Packard (Acari: Ixodidae), is a one-host tick species that parasitizes large ungulate hosts during fall and winter months when annual forage quality and quantity are low.
Hays, Samantha Rae
core  

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil's battle against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus ticks: current strategies and future directions

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Ticks are parasitic arthropods that cause significant economic losses to livestock production worldwide. Although Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, the cattle tick, occurs throughout the Brazilian territory, there is no official program to control ...
Guilherme Marcondes Klafke   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Haplotypes that include the integrin alpha 11 gene are associated with tick burden in cattle

open access: yesBMC Genetics, 2010
Background Infestations on cattle by the ectoparasite Boophilus (Rhipicephalus) microplus (cattle tick) impact negatively on animal production systems.
Bunch Rowan J   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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