Keywords Wolves, genome-wide phylogeny, canid evolution.. CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was. Abstract Here we present the first genomic data for the African wolf (Canis aureus lupaster) and conclusively demonstrate that it is a unique taxon and not a hybrid between other c...

The purpose of this essay is twofold. First is to analyze the role of insurgent groups in the anti-Kabila civil war in the Congo within the statist approach, which endows the state with considerable autonomy in defining the nature of states’ preferences and developing solutions to them. The essay also contends that the statist approach is not sufficient, however. Once enmeshed in a stalemated w...

5 Romaric Nzoumbou-Boko, Mariette Dethoua, Fréderic Gabriel, Alain 6 Buguet, Raymond Cespuglio, Pierrette Courtois, Sylvie Daulouède, Bernard 7 Bouteille, Stéphane Ngampo, Ghislain Mpandzou, Silla Semballa, Philippe 8 Vincendeau 9 1 Laboratoire de Parasitologie, UMR 177 IRD CIRAD, BP 43, Université de Bordeaux, 33076 10 Bordeaux cedex, France 11 2 Laboratoire de Parasitologie, University Hospit...

BACKGROUND Total domestic and international funding for malaria is inadequate to achieve WHO global targets in burden reduction by 2030. We describe the trends of investments in malaria-related research in sub-Saharan Africa and compare investment with national disease burden to identify areas of funding strength and potentially neglected populations. We also considered funding for malaria cont...

hypotheses concerning the origin of African Pygmies, termed “recent divergence and differential admixture” (RDDA) and “pre-Bantu divergence” (PBD) (Destro-Bisol et al.,, 2004). The RDDA hypothesis sustains that the genetic differentiation observed between Eastern Pygmies (settled in Zaire) and Western Pygmies (Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo) is due to the combined effect of differ...

The genus Medmassa Simon, 1887 is revised in the Afrotropical Region. The type species is M. frenata (Simon, 1887) from the Philippines, described from a subadult female. The widespread, but previously poorly known M. semiaurantiaca Simon, 1910, appears to be the only congeneric Afrotropical species. It is redescribed, illustrated for the first time, and proposed as a senior synonym of M. hieka...

BACKGROUND Ebola and Marburg viruses (family Filoviridae, genera Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus) cause haemorrhagic fevers in humans, often associated with high mortality rates. The presence of antibodies to Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) has been reported in some African countries in individuals without a history of haemorrhagic fever. In this study, we present a MARV and EBOV seropr...

In this paper we demonstrate a new approach that uses regional/continental MODIS (MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) derived forest cover products to calibrate Landsat data for exhaustive high spatial resolution mapping of forest cover and clearing in the Congo River Basin. The approach employs multi-temporal Landsat acquisitions to account for cloud cover, a primary limiting factor...

S U M M A R Y Mechanisms leading to the initiation and early-stage development of continental rifts remain enigmatic, in spite of numerous studies. Among the various rifting models, which were developed mostly based on studies of mature rifts, far-field stresses originating from plate interactions (passive rifting) and nearby active mantle upwelling (active rifting) are commonly used to explain...

Tsetse distribution maps are a useful tool for both research workers studying trypanosomiasis and animal and human health authorities. They enable the potential vectors in the country to be identified and provide rapid information about their geographic distribution. Considerable work is involved in drawing up these maps, including the compilation of publications, unpublished reports and often ...