(eds M.C.S. Wopereis et al.) 1 membership to 17. When it was realized that WARDA’s products were gaining ground in countries beyond its traditional mandate region of West and Central Africa, the name Africa Rice Center was adopted in January 2003 (WARDA, 2004). In 2007, a new vision was formulated to encourage such countries to become full members of the Association. This prompted five more cou...

The Egyptian jackal (Canis aureus lupaster) has hitherto been considered a large, rare subspecies of the golden jackal (C. aureus). It has maintained its taxonomical status to date, despite studies demonstrating morphological similarities to the grey wolf (C. lupus). We have analyzed 2055 bp of mitochondrial DNA from C. a. lupaster and investigated the similarity to C. aureus and C. lupus. Thro...

Distribution and inheritance of dorsal skin color markings among two populations of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) suggest that two genes influence dorsal skin color. The grey-morph and partial-grey-morph phenotypes (previously known as partial albino and grey-blaze, respectively) appear to be controlled by an X-linked gene, whereas the white blaze appears controlled by an autosoma...

There are different channels through which variations in international crude oil prices translate into changes net-oil exporting countries' domestic prices. This article identifies two of these causal mechanisms, namely the pass-through effect and Dutch disease effect. It intends to disentangle effects five producers Central African Economic Monetary Community: Cameroon, Republic Congo, Chad, E...

Determining priority areas for conservation activities in the forests of the Congo Basin is increasingly important in the face of advancing human pressures and deforestation. Since 2004, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has led conservation and land-use planning activities in the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) Landscape located in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We identified ...

Background: Species identification in commercially processed food and feed products is one of the important issues. This study was conducted to develop a genetic method for the detection of pig and cattle species in processed food and feed products using newly designed species-specific primers targeting mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene fragments. Methods: Two sets of specific primers were designed ...

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Even though God has ordained migration which has changed human history, rationalism, capitalism, liberalisation and technological innovation are central driving forces of globalization, and have positively impacted on global migration. Regardless of their entrepreneurial engagement, the presence of immigrants, including those from Congo-Brazzaville in South Africa, is often associated with an i...

Sitting at ∼5,000 m water depth on the Congo-Angola margin and ∼760 km offshore of the West African coast, the recent lobe complex of the Congo deep-sea fan receives large amounts of fluvial sediments (3-5% organic carbon). This organic-rich sedimentation area harbors habitats with chemosynthetic communities similar to those of cold seeps. In this study, we investigated relative abundance, dive...