The forests of South Africa and the neighbouring countries, including Lesotho, eSwatini, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique (south Zambezi River), were mapped classified according to global system biomes. new four-tier hierarchical biome suggested in this paper includes zonobiome, biome, continental (all recognised earlier), regional – a novel category. existing spatial coverages revised c...

Previous studies indicate that the HIV-1 subtype C epidemic in southern Brazil was initiated by the introduction of a single founder strain probably originating from east Africa. However, the exact country of origin of such a founder strain as well as the origin of the subtype C viruses detected outside the Brazilian southern region remains unknown. HIV-1 subtype C pol sequences isolated in the...

With 257 species known worldwide (Hansen, 1999; Short & Hebauer, 2006; Short & Fikáček, 2011; Gentili, 2012; Jia et al., 2013a; Jia et al, 2013b; Gentili, 2014), Laccobius Erichson is one of the most diverse genera of Hydrophilidae, most species having a relatively uniform convex, rounded appearance. To date only 26 species are known from sub-Saharan Africa (Gentili, 1981; Hebauer, 2006), 11 of...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.729 http://www.ojvr.org Authors: Christopher J. Kasanga1 Begoña Valdazo-González2 Rahana Dwarka3 Jemma Wadsworth2 Nick J. Knowles2 Philemon N. Wambura1 Mark M. Rweyemamu1 Misheck Mulumba4 Jimis Deve5 Donald P. King2 Affiliations: 1Southern African Centre for Infectious Diseases Surveillance, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania 2WRLFMD, The Pirbright Institute, Uni...