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Zero-tolerance biosecurity protects high-conservation-value island nature reserve
Scientific Reports, 2017 Barrow Island, north-west coast of Australia, is one of the world’s significant conservation areas, harboring marsupials that have become extinct or threatened on mainland Australia as well as a rich diversity of plants and animals, some endemic.
John K. Scott +17 more
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Quarantine generated phase transition in epidemic spreading [PDF]
, 2010 We study the critical effect of quarantine on the propagation of epidemics on an adaptive network of social contacts. For this purpose, we analyze the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model in the presence of quarantine, where susceptible individuals
A. Vespignani +13 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is native to the tropical and subtropical areas of the American continent and is one of the world's most destructive insect pests and invaded Africa and spread to most of Asia in two years.
Mohammad Vatanparast, Youngjin Park
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Chloroplast Genomic Resource of Paris for Species Discrimination
Scientific Reports, 2017 Paris is famous in China for its medicinal value and has been included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Inaccurate identification of these species could confound their effective exploration, conservation, and domestication.
Yun Song +6 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Insect-borne diseases could induce severe symptoms in human and clinical signs in animals, such as febrility, erythra, arthralgia and hemorrhagic fever, and cause significant economic losses and pose public health threat all over the world ...
Hui-yu Wang +9 more
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Insects, 2019 This study was conducted to evaluate the insecticidal effects of ethyl formate (EF), methyl bromide (MB), and phosphine (PH3) fumigants against PH3-susceptible and -resistant strains of the rice weevil (Sitophilus oryzae), a major rice pest.
BongSu Kim +5 more
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MethodsX, 2015 Protoplasts have been widely used for genetic transformation, cell fusion, and somatic mutation due to the absence of a cell wall. However, without the protection of a cell wall, protoplasts are easy to rupture and aggregate during washing, collecting ...
Rong Lei +4 more
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Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment, 2020 Bioaerosol sampling is a critical step toward characterizing airborne pathogen exposure risks for many respiratory infectious diseases in human-to-human or human-to-animal outbreaks.
Xuezheng Ma +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Genetic engineering (GM) has great potential to improve maize productivity, but rises some concerns on unintended effects, and equivalent as their comparators.
Wei Fu +6 more
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Pathogens, 2023 Akabane virus (AKAV) is a world wide epidemic arbovirus belonging to the Bunyavirales order that predominantly infects livestock and causes severe congenital malformations.
Jingjing Wang +6 more
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