Schistosomes cause significant morbidity and mortality in millions of the world's poorest people. While parasite egg-induced inflammation is the primary driver of host pathology, relatively little is known at the molecular level about the organ systems that participate in schistosome egg production (i.e., testes, ovaries and vitellaria). Here we use transcriptional profiling and in situ hybridi...

Farmland trees are a vital part of the local economy as used by farmers for fuelwood well food, fodder, medicines, fibre, and building materials. As result, mapping tree species is important ecological, socio-economic, natural resource management. The study evaluates very high-resolution remotely sensed WorldView-2 (WV-2) imagery classification in agroforestry landscape Kano Close-Settled Zone ...

The Afrotropical butterfly subfamily Pseudopontiinae (Pieridae) was traditionally thought to comprise one species, with two subspecies (Pseudopontia paradoxa paradoxa Felder & Felder and Pseudopontia paradoxa australis Dixey) differing in a single detail of a hindwing vein. The two subspecies also differ in their known geographic distributions (mainly north of versus south of the equator). Unli...