Bats have important roles in the ecosystems they inhabit. Sometimes, they also carry viruses. One study in the Atlantic Forest suggests anthropogenic… Read more »
Krisztian Magori practices gratitude for the good news on the development of scalable, self-limiting, genetic sexing version of genetically modified… Read more »
A few years ago, this question would have been merely academic for most of the world, but now that we have all experienced the… Read more »
Field studies, conducted in Brazil, have been investigation the distance sand flies will fly to a trap baited with the… Read more »
Recent outbreaks of Yellow fever in Brazil call for fractional dosing to make vaccination stocks stretch further. Meanwhile the… Read more »
With almost 1400 cases and 250 deaths, Brazil is currently experiencing the largest outbreak of yellow fever since the 1940s.… Read more »
We talk to Filipe Dantas-Torres, winner of one of the 2016 Odile Bain Memorial Prizes, about his career to date, the inspiration… Read more »
Variations in the copulation songs that male sandflies sing to their mates determines whether or not insemination is successful
Detection of eggs/ cysts of intestinal parasites in the faeces of infected animals is the gold standard for diagnosing numerous… Read more »
Guest post by Dr Rod J Dillon (@sandflyman) Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, UK. As part of… Read more »
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