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Just published today! Our group used mosquitoes as flying syringes to conduct surveillance on pathogens of turkeys, white-tailed deer and invasive wild pigs. Not only could we detect DNA and RNA viruses, we could estimate prevalence! 🌎🧪👩🔬
doi.org/10.3390/path...
doi.org/10.3390/path...
August 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Just published today! Our group used mosquitoes as flying syringes to conduct surveillance on pathogens of turkeys, white-tailed deer and invasive wild pigs. Not only could we detect DNA and RNA viruses, we could estimate prevalence! 🌎🧪👩🔬
doi.org/10.3390/path...
doi.org/10.3390/path...
Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/w...
Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa
I know almost nothing about protozoa, and I’m pretty confident that this is the first time I’ve ever written about them. But I’m a sucker for a good Latin name, and I’ve run across not just one, bu…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Wonderful Latin Names: Hitchhiker’s Guide in a pair of protozoa scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/w...
Check out this cool note from @profwisely.bsky.social Lab reporting that soft ticks feed on feral swine in Florida link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Contact between soft tick vectors of African swine fever virus and invasive wild pigs in the southeastern USA - Parasites & Vectors
Background African swine fever virus is a transboundary pathogen of high economic impact to the global pork industry. Florida has multiple factors that contribute to the high risk of introduction of A...
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May 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Check out this cool note from @profwisely.bsky.social Lab reporting that soft ticks feed on feral swine in Florida link.springer.com/article/10.1...