Some African Rotifers

Bdelloid rotifers revisited.

S exual reproduction is one of the most striking features of the biological world. The great majority of the animals and plants with which we are most familiar reproduce at least part of the time by means of sexual reproduction with meiosis, recombination, and fertilization. But many eukaryotes reproduce asexually part of the time, and some are exclusively asexual (1, 2). Two articles in a rece...

Rotifers ingest Giardia cysts.

Seven species of rotifers representing 6 genera, Epiphanes, Plationus, Asplanchna, Philodina species A, Philodina species B. Platyias, and Brachionus, were exposed to Giardia cysts isolated from the feces of experimentally infected holstein calves. Giardia cysts were prestained with a fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated monoclonal antibody and mixed with viable rotifers on 3-well Teflon-coate...

some new leads for human african trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness)

Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives.

doi:10.2471/BLT.08.054726 In 2001, a school teacher in Gueckedou, on Guinea’s border with Liberia, saw rebel forces including child soldiers destroy his town. Reflecting a few years later on the childhood immunization programmes that are now well established in the region, he worried that they might be creating a new generation of children – strengthened, but more violent. The notion of strengt...

Some pages from my African diary.

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