Du Rand, Esther Elizabeth; Stutzer, Christian; Human, Hannelie; Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Nicolson, Sue W.(Springer, 2020-02)
Nutritional stress due to habitat transformation and loss is one of several factors contributing to current declines in global bee populations. Bees obtain protein from pollen, which in honeybees is consumed and digested ...
Van Zyl, W.A. (Willem Andries); Stutzer, Christian; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Maritz-Olivier, Christine(Elsevier, 2015-02)
The cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, has a debilitating effect on the livestock industry worldwide,
owing to its being a vector of the causative agents of bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis. In South Africa,
co-infestation ...
Stutzer, Christian; Van Zyl, W.A. (Willem Andries); Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Richards, Sabine; Maritz-Olivier, Christine(2013-06)
The southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus microplus, is an economically important pest, especially for
resource-poor countries, both as a highly adaptive invasive species and prominent vector of disease.
The increasing ...
In the wake of the ‘omics’ explosion of data, reverse vaccinology approaches are being
applied more readily as an alternative for the discovery of candidates for next generation diagnostics
and vaccines. Promising ...
Robbertse, Luise; Richards, Sabine A.; Stutzer, Christian; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Leisewitz, Andrew L.; Crafford, Jan Ernst; Maritz-Olivier, Christine(Elsevier, 2020-10)
Livestock production is a fundamental source of revenue and nutrition, wherein cattle-farming constitutes one of the major agricultural industries. Vectors and vector-borne diseases constitute one of the major factors that ...
